Counselor Presents Revolutionary Approach to Treating Addiction in New Book
SPRINGFIELD, La. (PRWEB) June 17, 2019 -- Counselor and trailblazer in the field of chemical dependency treatment Paula Norris Mestayer has published her remarkable story of discovering and further developing a groundbreaking approach to treating the brain disease of addiction. In “Addiction: The Dark Night of the Soul/NAD+: the Light of Hope,” Mestayer shares her 20 years of clinical experience delivering intravenous infusions of NAD+ – a natural coenzyme of niacin – to help her patients kick opiates, alcohol and other addictive substances with minimal withdrawal symptoms or cravings and without substituting another addictive narcotic.
As the U.S. opioid epidemic grows increasingly dire, Mestayer’s work provides a critically needed solution so that many more can find their way back to health, wholeness and freedom once again. Mestayer was originally introduced to the treatment when she sought help for her own daughter’s addiction, and the paradigm-shifting results she observed inspired her to begin offering NAD+ to others who came to her therapy practice seeking guidance.
“Addiction: The Dark Night of the Soul” also explores how the treatment has been beneficial in the brain restoration process to people with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder as well as to those who have neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
“When you finish reading, I hope you’ll become an ambassador for a conversation that can change the course of neurodegenerative diseases and addiction treatment in our country,” Mestayer wrote in the preface of her book. “There’s no reason to prolong our national addiction nightmare. There’s no reason to substitute one narcotic for another and call it therapy.”
Ultimately, “Addiction: The Dark Night of the Soul” presents a viable answer to an epidemic that has consumed the U.S. without prejudice. With the opioid crisis now declared a public health emergency, important steps must be taken to address the toll of addiction. Mestayer’s book supports this and calls for reconsideration of traditionally accepted addiction treatment and rehab standards, which she says have not truly treated the damage caused to a person’s brain after experiencing addiction.
“I'd known about this newer technology for some time and then assisted someone to attend Springfield Wellness. I observed some of what is documented within in these pages in ‘progress’ and could not be more grateful, impressed or hopeful about the advances that are taking place in this field,” a reader wrote in a five-star review of “Addiction: The Dark Night of the Soul” on Amazon. “There IS Hope. Paula Norris Mestayer has truly held up a lamp into the darkness.”
“Addiction: The Dark Night of the Soul/NAD+: The Light of Hope”
By Paula Norris Mestayer with Leslee Goodman
ISBN: 978-1-9822-1815-7 (hardcover); 978-1-9822-1813-3 (softcover);
978-1-9822-1814-0 (e-book)
Available through Balboa Press, Barnes & Noble and Amazon
About the Author
Paula Norris Mestayer is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Fellow of the American Psychotherapy Association and a member of the American Counseling Association and the Louisiana Counseling Association. Mestayer was an educator for 11 years after graduating from Louisiana State University in 1969. She completed graduate degrees in education and independent study in psychotherapy from Tulane University before taking her clinical internship at the Manhattan Children’s Psychiatric Hospital. Mestayer has devoted her professional life to helping patients deal effectively with a wide variety of sub-acute psycho-physiological conditions, including panic and anxiety disorders, chronic and acute stress, depression and bereavement, alcohol and substance abuse and marital and family challenges. For 22 years she was a consultant at Ochsner Foundation Hospital with the Behavioral Health and Addiction Treatment Units. Concurrently, 11 of those years she was the director of a private nonprofit residential program for abused and neglected children. In 2001, she founded an outpatient clinic providing services for the treatment of chemical dependency and acute stress utilizing intravenous infusions, which then led to the development of BR+NAD at Springfield Wellness Center. The clinic is the longest operating NAD+ IV clinic in the U.S., and it pioneered the BR+NAD methods and protocols. Mestayer was certified by the International Society of Clinical Hypnosis, the New Orleans Society of Clinical Hypnosis, the PAIRS Foundation for Marital Family Therapy and the ADTR-Creative Arts Therapy. She currently resides with her loving husband, Dr. Richard Mestayer, III, horses, dogs, chickens, ducks, cat, donkey and visiting children and grandchildren in Natchez, Miss. To learn more, please visit http://www.addictionthedarknightofthesoul.com and listen to Mestayer’s interview on Hay House Radio.
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