When you think of alcohol recovery, you probably think first of traditional drug and alcohol treatment centers. You may not even know about holistic drug and alcohol treatment. That’s too bad, because there is a significant benefit to holistic alcohol rehab.
Put quite simply, that benefit is that holistic drug and alcohol treatment can cure addiction.
Conventional treatment not only can’t cure addiction, but claims that there is no cure. The received wisdom with conventional treatment is that alcoholism and other addictions are an incurable disease-that the person with an addiction is diseased and defective and can never be “normal.”
This belief is backed up by treating alcohol and drug addiction with cookie cutter meetings that force everyone to admit they are “powerless over alcohol” and that they are the problem. Talk therapy in treatment and after continue to push the message that there is something wrong with the person, and the addiction is just a symbol.’
Traditional alcohol treatment does not work because it can’t work. The very people administering the treatment believe there is no cure, and that the best hope is to “get someone into AA” and hope they continue going to meetings for the rest of their lives.
Because medicine and science have failed to find a cure, these professionals believe there is no cure. They consider any talk of a natural cure or a cure other than AA to be the same as heresy, and proclaim loudly that nothing works but AA.
The problem with that argument is that AA has about a 5% success rate. For those it works for, it does work very well, but obviously conventional treatment is leaving a lot of people out in the cold.
This is where holistic alcohol treatment comes into its own.
Holistic treatment can cure addiction, including not only alcohol but also prescription and street drug addiction, eating disorders and sexual addiction.
Holistic drug and rehab centers effect a complete cure by treating the whole person-body, mind and soul. They use no drugs and there are no side effects from treatment. It’s all completely natural and gentle on the body, as well as on the mind and the spirit.
Holistic alcohol rehab begins with an Ibogaine program, which is a detoxification process. Ibogaine completely removes all alcohol and drugs from the body, as well as other toxins and impurities that might be hindering the body’s and mind’s ability to resist alcohol and other addictive substances.
The Ibogaine treatment is gentle and completely natural. Unlike some drug treatment centers that use drugs for detox, holistic drug and alcohol treatment centers never use any kind of drug in their detoxification and treatment process.
Once the body has been detoxed, the client of a holistic drug and alcohol treatment center goes through a mind/body/soul treatment process that recreates the individual as a new person who does not have an addiction.
In treating the mind, holistic alcohol rehab seeks to change the client’s thoughts, because when you change the thoughts you change the mind. The point is a complete mindset shift that creates a new way of thinking and maintains that way of thinking.
Treatments for the mind include non-punitive motivational/cognitive coaching, relapse prevention coaching, and hypnotherapy, among other non-invasive, natural and gentle modalities.
For the body, treatments include personal training, nutritional education, reflexology and much more. These methods are designed to help the body heal so that alcohol and drugs will not be necessary. Removing the need and desire for the chemical is the point of holistic drug and alcohol treatment.
The soul is also addressed, with methods including spiritual counseling, yoga and acupuncture. Creating a spiritual awareness is a major function of holistic alcohol rehab. A spiritual belief system is very powerful in curing addiction.
The problem with traditional drug and alcohol therapy is that it doesn’t really treat the body, the mind, or the spirit, although most people think it does.
As for the body, detox involves medications or letting the body remove the toxins on its own, which is not very effective.
Talk therapy is the only treatment for the mind in traditional alcohol and drug rehab, and this kind of therapy can create more problems than it relieves, by bringing up old problems and focusing on “figuring out” a solution, which keeps people focused on the problem.
Traditional treatment falls far short in the area of the spirit. AA is a secular program which most people think is a spiritual program. It offers no spiritual support or enlightenment, and those who want to have a spiritual life in AA must find it outside.
The Holistic Sanctuary offers alcohol rehab that treats the entire person, and does so with a goal of healing the person completely. It’s not about getting someone to stop drinking for now. It’s about making them a person who doesn’t drink.
