Holistic trauma recovery is a new approach to dealing with trauma. By focusing on the spirit, mind, and body, this method of healing holistically combines Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine to address all emotional, physical, and spiritual symptoms that may be associated with a traumatic event. From your body to your environment, it is centered on spiritual practices like meditation, gratitude, relaxation, reflection, conscious living, healthy diet, exercise, and hygiene, leading to more clarity from past trauma, memories, or events.
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Understanding Holistic Trauma Recovery
Holistic trauma recovery is all about the nervous system. Through self-regulation, trauma survivors can ease trauma and day-to-day challenges through meditation, creative outlets, breathwork, and yoga. Regulating the nervous system through these techniques leads to mental clarity.
Holistic trauma recovery is about traumas — not defining you. A new positive identity can be formed through reflection and self-attention, and past trauma or painful experiences can be reframed, better tackled, and left in the past as you progress toward setting new habits.
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Integrating Traditional and Holistic Therapies
Traditional talk therapy methods, like cognitive-behavioral therapy, can be combined with holistic methods to offer trauma survivors a comprehensive approach. In addition to the work trauma patients would be doing with their therapy, they would also have additional holistic tools to then support their progress in their day-to-day lives.
It is not unusual, outside of cognitive-behavioral therapy, to have EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) combined with holistic therapies, like meditation and breathwork. While EMDR treatment for trauma tackles negative thought patterns, holistic work can target emotional and physical symptoms that trauma often leaves behind. In extreme cases of trauma, where the usual cognitive-behavioral and holistic therapies have not worked, a combination of cranial sacral therapy and psychotherapy can help to heal trauma.
Holistic Practices for Trauma Recovery
Mindfulness and meditation are two of the most common holistic practices for trauma recovery. Coupled with nutritional therapy, physical exercise (through yoga), and maintaining a peaceful living space, these foundational holistic practices can help to support progressive improvement through self-esteem, a self-living space (bolstered through decluttering), and a sense of gratitude that leads to a positive state of mental well-being. Overall, environmental initiatives like decluttering your room, taking a bath bomb or oil-infused bath, and applying bodily lotions can help to get you out of a trauma-filled mind and into a healthy body, emotions, sensations, and, ultimately, state. Reducing stress is a big component of making progress towards healing.
Alternative Therapies for Trauma
Expressing gratitude through making lists or journaling reinforces an attitude of thankfulness and can foster positive mental well-being. Watching a light-hearted comedy can uplift spirits and encourage joy and laughter, which are beneficial for emotional healing. Moreover, maintaining a practice of journaling can facilitate personal reflection and emotional processing during the healing journey.
Some of the many alternative therapies for Holistic healing are:
- Acupuncture: This can promote a more restful sleep, improve digestion and circulation, relieve muscle tension, and reduce anxiety (priming you for incredible progress).
- Art and music therapy: Creative expression can help communicate things to put into words (whether painful experiences or feelings). They help to get things off of your chest in a way that is fun, rewarding, collaborative, and simpler than words oftentimes.
- Animal-assisted therapy: Service dogs, as well as other animals, can be effective in assisting those who have suffered from trauma with loneliness, creating a positive external locus of attention, and reducing depression.
Emotional and Spiritual Healing
Building networks of support and staying consistent with spiritual practices (like gratitude list building or thankful journaling) can lead to a personal reflection beneficial for emotional healing. Unlike cognitive-behavioral therapy, these holistic and spiritual practices can uplift your spirit in a more organically integrated way rather than set aside more formalized activities (like behavioral therapy, medications, or cognitive talk therapies).
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How Moment of Clarity Supports Holistic Trauma Recovery
While most people suffer from trauma in silence or are only familiar with cognitive-behavioral therapies, many do reach out for professional holistic trauma recovery services. Here at Moment of Clarity, we provide holistic trauma recovery services to help you get your life back. We offer various trauma treatment options tailored to meet your specific needs. Reach out today by calling 949-625-0564 to learn more about our holistic trauma recovery options and services and see how we can help you find the balance that can lead to healing.
