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In recent years, the medical community has broadened its approach toward recovery, promoting therapies that empower clients to thrive in their recovery journeys. Gulf Coast Recovery Center’s holistic rehab in Florida emphasizes the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit to treat the whole client, taking into consideration the many factors that can influence one’s physical and mental health.
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How Does Our Holistic Rehab in Florida Work?
In the past, addiction treatment services were offered in a uniform way. Rehab clinics offered evidence-based modalities like talk therapy with some success, but too often cases resulted in relapse.
Today, many addiction treatment facilities offer holistic therapies alongside updated evidence-based modalities, making for more effective addiction and mental health treatment.
Holistic rehab in Florida introduces new ways to solve age-old problems of addiction and mental health disorders. The methods used by Gulf Coast Recovery Center promote healthy thoughts and practices to replace old, unhealthy habits.
When engaged alongside traditional therapies like therapy and group support, holistic therapies serves as a powerful weapon in the fight against addiction. After all, successful recovery depends largely on the connections between mind, body, and spirit.
What Does Holistic Mean?
The term “holistic” refers to an approach or perspective that considers and addresses the whole of something, rather than narrowly focusing on that something’s various components. Holistic therapy is sometimes called “complementary and integrative medicine.”
Holistic therapy refers to therapeutic approaches that address the whole person—the client’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Those who accept and engage in holistic rehab in Florida give themselves a chance to grow more attuned to their whole selves, promoting greater self-acceptance and self-confidence.
Types of Holistic Therapy We Offer
Gulf Coast Recovery Center offers the following holistic therapies:
- Art therapy. No matter what the medium, creating art is a physical type of holistic therapy, requiring the artist to move. The chief benefit of art therapy, however, is that it enables people to express what they are thinking and feeling. Therefore, art therapy serves as a healthy outlet for expressing the underlying emotions that surround addiction.
- Gardening. Gardening provides holistic benefits such as physical exercise, stress reduction, and mental relaxation. It has also been shown to improve mood and promote a sense of accomplishment, contributing to overall well-being.
- Kayaking. Kayaking is a water sport where individuals paddle in a small, narrow boat using a double-bladed paddle. The activity offers holistic benefits like physical fitness, stress relief, improved cardiovascular health, and enhanced mental well-being.
- Yoga. A 5000-year-old practice, yoga imparts strength, balance, and flexibility, all of which improve the client’s physical health as they work toward becoming one with their bodies.
- Reiki. Reiki is an alternative holistic therapy from 20th-century Japan. It involves the transfer of universal energy from the practitioner to the recipient to promote physical, mental, and spiritual healing and balance.
How Does Holistic Therapy Help Addiction Recovery?
Holistic therapy is an integrative approach that complements traditional or regular therapeutic methods. It is designed to heal the whole person, not just the symptoms connected with a substance use disorder.
One of the many ways in which holistic therapy helps in addiction recovery is that it provides a safe space for clients to explore their emotions, traumatic memories, and past experiences that might have led to their addictive behaviors. Such emotional awareness can be essential for those looking to attain long-term recovery.
Holistic Therapy vs Regular Therapy
Long-term substance abuse tends to inflict long-term mental and physical damage on the user. Our holistic rehab empowers clients to address the ways in which they’ve been harmed.
Allowing a person to think, breathe, move their body, and discover new passions is all of a piece with holistic recovery. Meanwhile, traditional therapeutic approaches like psychotherapy and group support can continue addressing the symptoms of underlying mental health disorders and maladaptive coping patterns.
Holistic therapy and regular or traditional therapy differ in several ways, including:
- Approach. Holistic therapy takes a comprehensive, “whole person” approach, addressing not only mental and emotional issues but also the physical, spiritual, and even social factors of mental health. Regular therapy, meanwhile, tends to focus more on the mental and emotional aspects of a client’s mental health, using established techniques and theories.
- Technique. Holistic therapy incorporates a range of techniques, including yoga, reiki, and art therapy. Regular therapy, meanwhile, relies primarily on talk therapy and counseling.
- Goals. While regular therapy often aims to address specific mental health symptoms, holistic therapy promotes overall wellness, balance, and personal growth.
- Integration. Holistic therapy encourages the integration of the mind, body, and spirit to achieve wellness. Regular therapy tends to focus narrowly on the particular psychological issues of clients.
Benefits of A Holistic Rehab in Florida
At Gulf Coast Recovery Center, our holistic rehab in Florida calls on our clients to work toward addressing the personal issues that drive their behaviors. Once our clients understand the motivations and habits that cause them to want to abuse substances, they can then develop ways in which to better cope. The additional benefits of our holistic therapies include:
- Physical Fitness. Patients who are physically fit tend to recover from substance use disorder and many common mental health disorders faster and more effectively. The physical health benefits of activities like kayaking, yoga, and even gardening promote healing and balance. Furthermore, these activities can over time instill a positive, self-reinforcing habit that people can draw from throughout their lives.
- Self-confidence. With holistic therapy, patients have refined their recovery journey by learning how to take responsibility for their lives. In this way, they are more accepting of themselves and possess greater self-confidence.
- Meditation. In meditation, one learns to focus one’s breath and quickly dismiss negative thoughts. Over time, this practice empowers people to control their thoughts as well as their decisions and ability to manage everyday stress. In fact, a 2019 randomized control trial of more than 200 adolescent females in India suggests that people who underwent a month-long holistic therapy-based stress management program were less stressed and more emotionally healthy than those in the control group.
- Better Sleep. Nothing hurts one’s chances of getting a good night’s sleep substance abuse. Unfortunately, substance withdrawal can also ruin a good night’s sleep. Fortunately, several holistic therapies have been shown to improve sleep and healing.
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Jennifer Strong, LMHC
Written by Gulf Coast Recovery Staff Updated on January 12, 2024
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