Your Therapist Needs Therapy 142 - Movement, Performance, and Meaning-Making with Mario Ismael Espinoza

About this episode

Jeremy chats with Mario Ismael Espinoza about the intersection of dance, social work, and mental health.

Jeremy gets to chat this week with extremely talented Mario Ismael Espinoza. Mario shares their journey from being a professional dancer to moving into social work, and blending body movement and mental health. Jeremy and Mario talk about some of the similarities and differences of dance and sports performance which also covers some of our thoughts on identity formation and transformation. We also chat about meaning-making and spirituality, not coming from a place of scarcity, but from authen...

People in this episode

Host: Jeremy Schumacher

Guest: Mario Ismael Espinoza

Topics covered

• movement
• performance
• mental health
• identity formation
• spirituality

Keywords

• dance
• social work
• identity
• meaning-making
• spirituality

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