Holistic Treatment Centers: Healing Mind, Body, and Spirit

Holistic treatment centers like Desert Cove Recovery in Arizona offer a whole-person approach to helping clients overcome substance use disorders. By incorporating alternative therapies for both the mind and body and an emphasis on treating the whole person rather than substance abuse in isolation, this approach helps people create lasting pathways to recovery.

In the treatment of substance use disorders, holistic treatment centers excel by addressing every life challenge that people face. It’s not just a matter of putting down the drink or drugs but also of creating a productive, healthy, and sustainable life in sobriety. Take a closer look at how we work to help our clients heal their minds, bodies, and spirits.

Understanding the Unique Approach of Holistic Treatment Centers

Holistic rehab programs in Arizona focus on three main elements to help clients achieve overall health:

• Healing the mind
• Healing the body
• Healing the spirit

These three components establish more than a pathway to recovery from substance use disorders by building a foundation for living a fulfilling life in recovery.

Too often, people seek out addiction treatment to deal with a single problem: not being able to stop using drugs or alcohol. While addiction itself is a debilitating condition, the vast majority of people seeking recovery have underlying challenges that contribute to their substance use problem.

For example, some of the common challenges people experience when they first enter our treatment programs include:

• Financial insecurity
• Job loss
• Relationship difficulties
• Mental health disorders
• Physical health conditions
• Lack of purpose in life
• Difficulty regulating emotions

Leaving these challenges unaddressed can quickly lead to people experiencing undue stress or difficulty in early recovery. Any one of these difficulties can potentially lead to thoughts of relapse or a feeling that the promises of recovery are left unfulfilled.

Holistic rehab centers aim to alleviate these challenges by adopting a different approach to recovery. Instead of taking these challenges for granted, we address them directly. By helping clients in each area of their lives where they face obstacles, we prepare clients to overcome challenges and resist relapse through targeted and evidence-based techniques.

Healing the Mind

Healing the mind requires a comprehensive commitment to helping people address mental health challenges. This not only includes treating co-occurring mental health disorders but also helping clients with everyday mental challenges that can hold them back from living a rich and fulfilling life.

Several different treatment options can be effective in healing the mind, including:

Individual Therapy

Individual therapy means sitting one-on-one with a licensed therapist to discuss your mental health difficulties. This is a time-tested approach for helping people overcome mental health challenges like depression, anxiety, or substance use disorders. Still, it can also be an incredible tool for helping you find purpose and meaning in life.¹

Group Therapy

Group therapy brings people with a shared challenge together to talk about and work through their mental health difficulties. Sometimes, the person who is best equipped to help you break free from a mental health challenge is someone who has been where you have been, felt what you have felt and found a way to the other side.

Psychiatry

Psychiatrists work to help relieve their client’s mental health symptoms through targeted medication interventions. Dozens of medications work to treat the most common and disruptive mental health conditions, and your psychiatrist can help you discover the medication options that work best for you.

Healing the Body

Physical health is an essential component of overall health and well-being. Healing the body with holistic therapy helps people feel better physically, recover from chronic health conditions, and feel more comfortable in their skin.

At Desert Cove Recovery, we use various tools to help people heal their bodies and achieve a more holistic state of health.

Exercise

Physical exercise is one of the best things you can do for both your physical health and your mental health.² Starting exercise doesn’t have to mean intensive weight lifting, either. Finding ways to move your body more each day can provide immense benefits. Some great options that we support our clients to engage with include:

• Yoga
• Walking
• Running
• Cycling
• Hiking
• Kayaking

These activities can help get your body into peak condition, prevent chronic disease, and keep you feeling your best physically and mentally.

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is an ancient technique that can help people find relief from chronic health conditions. Whether that be chronic pain, muscle tension, or old injuries, starting work with an acupuncturist can provide tangible relief from uncomfortable physical symptoms.

Relaxation Techniques

When people experience stress, anxiety, or even drug and alcohol cravings, these cravings often appear in the body first. Relaxation techniques can help soothe such symptoms and, in turn, reduce the mental health effects that you experience.

Our holistic therapists can teach you techniques like deep breathing exercises, body scan techniques, and other relaxation methods to help you create a new way of resolving these symptoms.

Healing the Spirit

The final component of a holistic approach is healing the spirit. Holistic treatment centers offer many different options to help people reconnect with their spirituality, engage with it in deeper and more meaningful ways, and cultivate lasting practices that can sustain this connection for years.

What spirituality means to each client is different. For some, it means reconnecting with a church or religious group. For others, it means delving into mindfulness and meditation. Wherever your spiritual tendencies lie, our holistic treatment centers can support you in reaching deeper into your spiritual connection and building a more meaningful and purpose-filled life.

Start Treatment at Desert Cove Recovery Today

Desert Cove Recovery is a comprehensive substance use and mental health treatment center in Arizona that emphasizes holistic addiction treatment at every stage of the treatment process. If you or a loved one is struggling with addiction, reach out to our team by filling out our confidential online contact form to speak to one of our knowledgeable representatives and get started on the path to recovery today.

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Blake Nichols

Blake Nichols is the Director of Operations at Desert Cove Recovery. Blake battled his own addiction to drugs and alcohol and was given the gift of recovery at the age of 23. Since 2008, Blake has dedicated his life and career to the field of addiction. He has experience in all aspects of addiction treatment including direct care, admissions, marketing, and administration.

Blake feels that the greatest reward of working in the recovery field is being part of the transformation that a person goes through from the time they arrive and begin treatment, through the hard work and the Miracle of recovery, and ultimately the change into a confident and capable person ready to carry the message of recovery.

“My career has focused on serving others. I have accepted ownership of my responsibilities as that is the key to working at the highest level of professionalism. I have worked to be positive and offer solution-based suggestions in my work and personal life.”