Body Brain Restoration

Despite being a complex brain disease, many physical factors will play a role in addiction. 

Modern lifestyles will push individuals to their limits, unbalancing the body and depleting the brain of essential neurotransmitters. This may lead to chemical deficits that could cause depression, trouble sleeping, and anxiety.

At Westchester Foundation, we will undertake tests to understand each individual’s requirements and deficiencies, enabling us to create a personalized supplementation program with vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and micronutrients.

Nutritional Management Programme

Together with the medical team, our experienced dieticians will determine your micro nutritional profile.

Good nutrition and healthy food will be easy to achieve, enjoyable, and will aid recovery and well-being.

Our goal is to help our guests learn new dietary habits and regain life balance. The skills and experience of our Executive Chef will be exemplified in our balanced and nutritious menus. Each meal will be a unique experience, created with fresh, local, and seasonal products.

Diet and Nutrition

Alongside the medical team, our experienced dieticians will determine your micro nutritional profile.

In assessing all aspects of your health and well-being, our dietician will review your eating and nutritional habits. Working with the Chef, they will develop a plan tailored to your needs. The aim will be for you to cultivate good nutrition and eating habits that you can practice and take with you into your life beyond treatment.

Good nutrition and healthy food will be easy to achieve, enjoyable, and will aid recovery and well-being.

Our goal will be to help our patients learn new dietary habits and regain life balance. The skills and experience of our Executive Chef will be exemplified in our balanced and nutritious menus. Each meal will be a unique experience, created with fresh, local, and seasonal products.

Westchester Foundation’s medical and wellness spa will comprise four treatment rooms, along with male and female saunas, steam baths, and relaxation suites. An indoor/outdoor infinity pool, an outdoor jacuzzi, and a fitness space will cover a total of 1,000 square meters.

Together with our Body Mind Source team, you will reawaken your senses and embark on a journey of discovery, detoxification, relaxation, and revitalization. You will learn personalized strategies for creating balance while optimizing your energy, health, and well-being.

Our therapists, all trained in the most reputable global institutes, will accompany you throughout your entire stay, assisting you in purifying your body and enhancing your energy and well-being. All body mediation techniques will be closely supervised and assessed daily by the medical team to ensure you receive the best possible well-being experience.

Stress management will focus on balancing the demands placed upon you or that you place upon yourself and your fitness to cope with those demands. Excessive demands will threaten fitness, while inadequate fitness will intensify those demands.

Anyone involved with addiction will be no stranger to stress. Addiction will inherently be stressful almost by definition.

Individuals with addiction and those closely relating to them will experience significant levels of stress—more precisely, distress—in various ways.

As indicated, addiction will be inherently stressful from a psycho-emotional perspective because it revolves around the futile struggle to control the uncontrollable. Compounding this will be the stress placed directly on the body and brain by a variety of ingested chemicals and/or behaviors.

People closely related to colleagues, friends, and loved ones suffering from addiction will undergo a similar experience of stress due to persistent collateral harm, and often because of the dynamics in their relationship with that person. The struggle to control the uncontrollable frequently plays out in these relationships, where the individual may substitute for the substance or behavior.

Harmful stress will result from an unbalanced interplay between stressors and the capacity to cope with them. Stressors can be considered as the demands placed upon the system and its resources, while capacity will represent the degree of fitness that the system has to manage those demands without breaking down.

The quantity and quality of demands will be essential to consider. As demands increase and/or intensify, the capacity to address them may decrease, especially if fitness is neglected or abused.

If fitness decreases, the valence or weight of charge of the demands will inevitably increase. This is why stress management will require attention to both sides of the scale—reducing the quantity and intensity of demands while increasing fitness to enhance the capacity to cope with them.

Improving fitness will necessitate a holistic approach that encompasses the well-being of the body, mind, and spirit. Demands will include what others or circumstances ask of you, as well as what you ask of yourself, which may be conscious and recognized or unconscious, perhaps originating from early life.

Recovery from addiction will involve working, preferably with support, to achieve a manageable balance between fitness and demands, beginning with an honest personal reassessment of both.

The Serenity Prayer, often recited by those participating in anonymous 12-Step fellowships, will serve as a naturally compelling stress management aid. The word God can be used or omitted according to personal preference:

(God) grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

It’s quiet recital will help in navigating various futile and debilitating struggles.

Westchester Foundation will introduce Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP), a novel treatment approach developed at the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at the University of Washington, specifically for individuals in recovery from addictive behaviors.

The program will be designed to integrate practices of mindful awareness for individuals who have experienced addictive tendencies. MBRP practices will aim to foster increased awareness of triggers, destructive patterns, and “automatic” reactions.

The mindfulness practices incorporated in MBRP will help individuals pause, observe their present experiences, and bring awareness to the range of choices available to them before acting in every moment. The program will guide participants to learn how to respond in ways that serve them, rather than reacting in ways that are detrimental. The ultimate goal will be to work towards freedom from deeply ingrained and often very harmful habits.

Similar to Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for depression, MBRP will function as an aftercare program that combines mindfulness practices and principles with cognitive-behavioral relapse prevention techniques.

The primary goals of MBRP will include:

– Developing awareness of personal triggers and habitual reactions, along with learning ways to create a pause in this automatic process.

– Changing the relationship to discomfort by recognizing challenging emotional and physical experiences and responding to them skillfully.

– Fostering a non-judgmental, compassionate approach toward oneself and one’s experiences.

– Building a lifestyle that supports both mindfulness practice and recovery.

The MBRP program will not conflict with the 12-Step approach, as there will be significant common ground between the two methodologies, particularly in emphasizing acceptance, letting go, and the value placed on meditation and prayer.

Furthermore, the MBRP approach will incorporate elements of cognitive-behavioral relapse prevention, which will focus on enhancing the individual’s capacity to cope and increasing self-efficacy.