Licensed MFT, a Buddhist practitioner for over 30 years, and founder of MET(T)A Protocol, a design for mental health agency treatment currently being utilized in trauma and addiction treatment centers across the country, Dr. Stephen Dansiger speaks to us about his own journey of healing from trauma and addiction, and how Buddhist teachings can inform a modern-day trauma-centered approach to therapy. After years of addiction, he describes how his "fever broke" twenty-one days into his meditation at a Zen monastery, and how that "started a torrent of other future-based, mostly positive, thoughts - like 'I'm going to live.'"  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app