82: How dance helped one nurse heal from trauma, and help others

First Opinion Podcast - A podcast by STAT

"You can't pour from an empty cup" is what registered nurse Tara Rynders learned the hard way after two decades of work and one heartbreaking, life-threatening experience of being a critical care patient herself. Before that experience, she'd always found found that dance, play, and other types of movement helped her express and heal from the trauma she encountered and held in her body every day. After recovering from her experience as a patient, she brought that to several other nurses in a workshop.