Dr. Stephen Danisger, PsyD is the Executive Director and a Primary Therapist at ONE80CENTER. A 20-year veteran in the field of Addiction Treatment, Dr. Dansiger's mindfulness-based therapeutic tools helps ONE80CENTER clients bring wellness into their recovery. Helping to host this years event, it was a pleasure to hear Dr. Dansiger speak on a team-approach to incorporating wellness into the treatment of addiction. ONE80CENTER: "What do you think about the role of nutrition in early recovery?" "I think that it is utterly crucial and a couple of our speaker addressed it today. And I addressed it today wit an anecdote about a friend who remarked that if he were in a bad mood he would think he had to get a new therapist or a new AA group , or break up with his girlfriend or get new friends but what he really needed was a cheeseburger. People just getting hungry or people not eating right can sabotage anything and everything else they try. I have had eating issues around me in the past and I have seen many types of diets. I tried a vegan diet for a couple of years, vegetarian, and a pescatarian, I have gone all over the block and then there was a point where I was just chasing cattle down the street. So I have been through all these phases and I really have noticed the difference. Regardless of which of those diets I was on, there is a way of doing each one of those correctly. Then the other piece of it is nutrition. Like anything else there is a lot that we know that is ...
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