A NEW WAY
TO RECOVER
Highlights
Holistic Healing Path (HHP) was born out of a desire to revitalize the traditional approach to addiction recovery. This path focuses on four pillars: self-care, mindfulness, self-discovery and spirituality. Each of these pillars is explored throughout the 21 group curriculum designed by creator, Ashley Ryan. The group topics range from sleep hygiene and mindful eating to the philosophy of yoga and how Buddhism relates to the recovery process. The program includes two trauma-aware yoga videos and two meditation videos. Ashley also provides a blueprint for how to individualize treatment, complete with welcome packets, unique take-away assignments, experiential learning activities and discharge resources. The culture of addiction recovery is changing, clients are looking to have deeper more profound experiences in treatment. Holistic Healing Path offers a safe, non-judgmental, structured and creative space for clients to figure out what has been missing in their lives. By completing the 3-day training, facilitators will be prepared to launch a turn-key holistic curriculum that can be applied to various levels of care within the addiction field.
Goals
Holistic Healing Path was designed for the individual looking to create a lifestyle of recovery, not just sobriety. The goal of HHP is to help bring a client from a place of knowing changes need to occur to a place where they are actively using new skills to move them closer to the version of themselves they know can exist. HHP wants to help clients get inside their own minds to untangle the knots of traumatic conditioning and cycles of addiction. Clients will leave the program filled with real-time skills to take care of their emotional, spiritual, physical and mental needs in recovery. Clients work towards implementing mindfulness practices that help increase impulse control and decrease self-destructive behavior choices. Clients gain insight into how somatic experiences influence continued substance use and develop a new range of healthy coping skills. Clients are educated in traditional topics like relapse prevention, emotion regulation skills and disease education but through a new lens and in language that resonates with them.
Statistics
Holistic Healing Path has been operating successfully at a treatment center in New Jersey for over two years. The program has seen more than 130 clients and holds an 89% success rate of completion of treatment. HHP has a less than 5% rate of clients leaving treatment against clinical advice and a readmission rate to the same treatment episode of 12%. On average clients are staying in treatment longer than 35 days voluntarily while participating in the program.
The Four Pillars of Holistic Healing Path
“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness." - - Deborah Day
Holistic Healing Path teaches participants the difference between self-care and selfishness. Topics like physical wellness, mindful eating, organization skills and building healthy relationships are covered.
“The mind is not your fault but it is your responsibility.” - Mary Stancavage
Mindfulness has been proven to help increase a person's ability to be present with their everyday experiences. This is an important tool for those in early recovery who benefit from learning how to achieve balance by regulating their thoughts and emotions.
“The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.” - Mark Twain
Learning who you are in recovery can feel like an overwhelming task in the beginning. Holistic Healing Path is here to guide participants on a tour of themselves, uncovering and rediscovering pieces that have been shadowed by addiction.
“If you have to choose to be either the lotus or the swamp, always choose the lotus.” - - Ashley Ryan
Spirituality can often be an obstacle for people in the beginning stages of sobriety. Holistic Healing Path helps participants define spirituality on their terms, helping to make it a fundamental piece of their recovery.