Substance use disorders arise from numerous factors and affect the individual’s entire well-being. Each person is unique and has different contributing circumstances, so they require personalized treatment plans reflecting their goals and long-term success needs. For this reason, holistic healing becomes necessary when treating substance use disorders.
What is holistic healing?
Holistic treatment takes a focused, self-reflective approach to healing the entire individual. As addiction affects all areas of a person’s being, it has emotional, mental, spiritual, and social ramifications.
People must recognize these aspects as individual parts of a functioning whole to obtain a lasting recovery. Treatments discuss how addictions generate harm and provide overall healing.
These methods work jointly with evidenced-based treatment options like therapy. We incorporate various approaches to help clients completely participate in their recovery, allowing them to process external and internal changes.
The Overall Benefits of Holistic Healing
Holistic healing focuses on the person’s overall well-being, providing a sustainable path to personal growth and healing. Clients are empowered to live balanced lifestyles that nourish their emotional resilience, physical well-being, and spiritual health.
Holistic treatments go deeper than traditional methods; they address the root causes of imbalances while exploring the intricacies of the body, mind, and spirit.
1. Integrates the mind, body, and spirit
This component addresses adequate nutrition, sleep patterns, exercise, healthy communities, creative expression, and mindfulness. When all aspects (mind, body, and spirit) are aligned, a person experiences a meaningful existence, allowing them to resist cravings to avoid, numb, or escape reality.
2. Helps treat underlying (mental health) issues
Addressing the root causes of substance use promotes long-term healing and recovery. Often, people use substances to escape reality when dealing with stress, trauma, and mental health issues.
Holistic healing addresses the root cause by using customized therapy methods. These methods include mindfulness practices, counselling, and trauma-informed care. Medication simply provides one component of total recovery and serves only to fix a piece of the person’s behavioural health.
Meanwhile, holistic healing accounts for every part of the individual’s journey. Recovery is a unique process that requires tailored treatment plans to meet each person’s circumstances, environment, needs, and objectives to ensure long-term success.
3. Effective stress management
Stress can cause someone to rely on substance use for its calming effects. Our treatments reduce stress through mindfulness, physical exercise, and relaxation techniques. Once the person can manage stress effectively, other therapies can help them manage personal cravings.
4. Teaches life skills
Life skills, such as gardening and planning nutritious meals, can help people manage their daily lives. We instruct people on creative thinking, time management, problem-solving, organizational skills, and financial management.
5. Prevents relapse
Clients are equipped with diverse strategies and tools (healthy coping techniques and growth opportunities) to prevent relapse from occurring. If it does happen, those who can identify root causes, remain in a supportive community, and continue to nurture their well-being will experience tremendous success toward sobriety.
6. Creates a supportive community
Another advantage is the supportive community that surrounds our clients. Support groups, group therapies, family support, and peer programs create understanding and feelings of belonging. Compassionate accountability and vast wisdom from people with the same experiences can generate a sense of purpose in something beyond the individual.
Holistic Services We Offer
Reiki
Reiki deals with a universal life force energy while teaching unconditional love. Treatments remove aspects that don’t resemble love from the body, mind, and spirit, thus alleviating stress, being overwhelmed, anxiety, and fear. They also purge conscious and subconscious negative energy.
People report feeling calmer, happier, lighter, and more peaceful. They are taught to love themselves and others who may have hurt them again.
Meditation
Meditation clears or sharpens the mind using physical and mental techniques to promote relaxation, reduce stress, encourage inner peace, and decrease anxiety. It emphasizes participating in the present while eliminating background distractions and noise, breathing, and allowing oneself to connect fully to one’s physical body.
In addition, meditation promotes stillness. People cease to “do” while allowing them to “be.”
Nature Walks
What better way to relax than by immersing yourself in the opulence of nature? Clients can enjoy the forest, hiking trails, and lakeside views. They can view puffy, white, marshmallow-like clouds, be calmed by soothing waters, and admire majestic trees.
During nature walks, clients experience the harmonious interplay of various elements while refreshing their entire being.
Yoga
Yoga aligns the body and mind to enhance flexibility and strength while creating overall serenity. Physical postures are combined with meditation and breathing techniques to assist in addiction recovery.
Organic Gardening
Vegetables provide essential nutrients to the body. Working outside helps the body produce more vitamin D. Furthermore, bending, walking, pulling, and lifting promote moderate exercise, thus boosting immune system functioning.
Organic gardening generates sustainability, helping clients learn and develop gardening skills.
Proper Nutrition
We teach our clients the importance of a well-balanced diet for a healthy lifestyle. Proper nutrition helps people physically and assists them with their mental well-being. Sometimes, emotional issues can be linked to nutritional deficiencies and poor sleep habits.
Clients participate in cooking classes to receive simple instructions on meal preparation. Nutritious meals are physically advantageous and promote personal accomplishments and pride.
Health and Fitness Training
Regular activity strengthens the body and mental health by releasing tension. We work with individuals to explore various exercise methods to generate personal enjoyment and fulfillment.
Art Therapy
Participating in art can provide alternative counselling approaches through self-expression. Clients can more freely express complex emotions they cannot usually utter with words. Different creative processes and mediums are explored to assist clients in becoming more self-aware.
Your Journey to Holistic Healing Begins at Hope Be The Cure
We provide personalized treatment plans for substance use disorders designed to assist in various areas like dealing with negative thoughts, emotional imbalance, nutritional deficiencies, physical damage, and spiritual development.
Hope Be the Cure balances holistic healing with other services to treat symptoms equally for effective, sustainable outcomes. By incorporating different treatment methods, many of our clients obtain lasting results because it recognizes the links between all aspects of living.
We are open 24 hours daily to discuss treatment options that are right for you. Contact us by calling 844-635-4673 (HOPE), emailing us at info@hopebethecure.com, or by submitting our online form.