Posts by cclem

Restorative Yoga and Home-Baked Bread: An Interview with Diane Ortego

By Cindy Spiegel on Dec 4, 2024 in Addiction Recovery, Blog, Mental Health

If you’re preparing to enter a residential program for addiction treatment, practicing yoga might be the last thing you’d expect to be doing. After all, you feel pretty awful right now and are probably worried about feeling even worse the next few days in detox. Even after detox ends, you know you’ll have a lot to work through in therapy and group meetings; why...

Counseling, New Orleans, and TikTok Pigs: An Interview with R. Paige Prather

By Cindy Spiegel on Aug 23, 2024 in Addiction

“I just LOVE my job,” writes R. Paige Prather, Victory Addiction Recovery Center’s new Director for the IOP (intensive outpatient) facility opening in Metairie, LA.  Paige, a licensed professional counselor with master’s degrees in clinical mental health counseling and criminal justice from Loyola University in New Orleans, was drawn to this work at a young...