Overcoming Substance Addiction
Recovering from addiction is a journey that doesn’t end once you’ve reached sobriety. Every day requires a conscious and unconscious habit of maintaining healthy coping measures. The first step to recovering from addiction starts with the beginning to try, but even with this resolve, the American Addiction Centers states that an overwhelming majority of people attempting sobriety will fail and relapse within the first week. Falling back into addiction is a snowball effect of remorse, and any attempt at sobriety can feel as if it is in vain, therefore vigilance is key. Top of the World Ranch is a Canadian Addiction Treatment Centre with certified addictions counsellors that focuses on Ecotherapy, inspiring you to find peace in a rejuvenating outdoor setting.
What is Ecotherapy?
Ecotherapy is the idea that intrinsically, humans are connected to nature in the soul of their being. Connecting with the Earth improves mental health and physical well-being, where nature’s changing characteristics gently reminds us to be kind to ourselves as one’s journey to sobriety fluctuates. To start a new chapter of recovery is to embrace the restoring atmosphere of nature. Green landscapes are proven to increase the quality of life by reintegrating structure into one’s routine through “filling the day” to “decrease boredom, isolation and loneliness.”
How Does a Canadian Holistic Health Recovery Centre Use Nature to Treat Addiction?
Our BC addiction rehab is a medically supervised centre secluded within the vast nature surrounding us, where the mutual bonds of our counselors, specialists and clients form a special community of understanding, patience and hope. Our BC ranch, activities and accommodations highlight a natural outdoor experience to holistically treat drug, alcohol, sex, love and gambling addiction.
As you confront the negative thoughts luring you away from sobriety, the bright sunshine, clean air and open environment of nature infuses clarity into the thoughts and feelings that compel you to lose control. Ecotherapy is a natural detox, not only from substance use, but also from the environments of destructive habits. Surrounded by 600 acres of ranch with hundreds of thousands of more acres for activities, our approach to ecotherapy brings centers around natural euphoria to equip you with the strength to move past addiction.
Nature’s Active Qualities Against the Lure of Bad Habits
Staying clean is as much a priority as becoming sober. When you return home, you’ll fall back into routine and become tempted not only by old habits, but also by boredom. In fact, as you become sober, your brain intensifies boredom as you cope with the free time you need to fill. Ecotherapy teaches you to avoid potential relapse as you busy your mind and body with fishing, rafting, kayaking, mountain and trail hiking, indoor fitness, yoga, tai chi and the outdoor communal activities of volleyball, basketball, lawn bowling and more. Near our centre, there is also world class golfing. Our BC treatment centre encourages you to continue seeking the revitalizing healing of your natural surroundings. Even at home, nature is associated with an individual’s ability to have “less intense and frequent unhealthy cravings.”
Nature Guides Internal Peace To Treat Mental Health
Addiction recovery necessitates mental and emotional healing. Oftentimes, the cause of addiction stems from underlying depression, trauma, shame, anxiety and mental disorders. To treat addiction without focusing on the causes would be to create a very fragile state of sobriety. Our BC addiction recovery centre is an individualized program of recovery for each client to confront emotions that surface from withdrawal peacefully.
As you overlook the Purcell Mountains to the West and the Rocky Mountains to the East at the Top of the World Ranch, the quiet calm of nature promotes attention, energy and focus, bringing a new level of self-awareness that boosts your confidence to a future free from addiction. Even if you aren’t an outdoor enthusiast, the outdoors provide an opportunity for rebirth. This is the foundation of ecotherapy – to treat addiction by centring our mind, body and soul in an environment where we feel most at ease surrounded by the best support.
The simplicity of ecotherapy has far-reaching effects, where a walk outside to glimpse among the mountains, lakes and forests of Beautiful British Columbia reminds you of your place in the world. Despite the vastness of nature, you are not alone. Nature’s imperfections remind us it is okay to shed our leaves in order to recognize that with help and time, better is on its way. At the Top of the World Ranch, it is our philosophy to not only treat substance abuse, but to maintain recovery moving forward by empowering clients to find their way to the top of every spiritual and psychological mountain they may encounter. Contact us to start your recovery today in BC’s great outdoors!
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