When Pain Turns to Patterns: How Trauma Fuels Drug Abuse
When pain goes unhealed, it often turns into patterns that shape how we live, think, and cope. For many, those patterns lead to substance use as a way to escape emotional wounds. This piece explores how trauma fuels addiction—and how healing both together can open the door to genuine recovery and lasting peace.
You’re Not Broken: Reframing Trauma and Addiction With Compassion and Clinical Support
At The Lighthouse Bali, recovery is not about fixing what’s “broken,” but about reframing trauma and addiction with compassion and evidence-based care. Using therapies like CBT, EMDR, mindfulness, and personalized recovery plans, our team helps clients replace shame with resilience and create empowering new narratives. With ongoing support and aftercare, we guide individuals toward lasting healing and well-being.
From Surviving to Thriving: Why Dual Diagnosis Treatment Matters for Trauma and Substance Use
Dual diagnosis treatment is not a luxury .it’s a necessity.
When trauma and substance use disorders coexist, treating one without the other often leads to relapse, frustration, and prolonged suffering.
At The Lighthouse Bali, we specialize in integrated, trauma-informed care that treats both the root causes and symptoms of addiction. Through personalized, evidence-based therapy, holistic practices, and world-class clinicians, we help clients not only break free from dependency but build a sustainable path to long-term healing.
If you’re looking to truly heal not just get clean then dual diagnosis treatment is the missing piece.
Addiction and Trauma Recovery in Paradise: How Bali’s Natural Environment Supports Healing
The Lighthouse Bali offers personalized, one-on-one recovery programs for addiction and trauma in a private, luxury setting. Combining evidence-based therapy with holistic and spiritual practices, the center uses Bali’s natural, calming environment to support deep healing and long-term wellness.
Healing the Root Cause: Addressing Trauma for Lasting Addiction Recovery
Addiction often stems from unresolved trauma. Lasting recovery means addressing the root cause—healing the nervous system, rebuilding self-worth, and learning healthy ways to cope.
The Power of Connection: Why Support Networks Can Fuel Mental Health Recovery
Support networks in mental health recovery are a vital part of healing. Whether you’re facing addiction, anxiety, or trauma, having the right people around you can ease the burden and strengthen your path to recovery. This article explores how connection fuels lasting change.
How the EMDR protocol works with relapse prevention
EMDR is an effective, some might even say, pioneering treatment for addiction and substance use disorder primarily because it targets the underlying causes of these conditions, such as trauma, childhood development and PTSD.As the research landscape on substance misuse evolves, so does our understanding of the pivotal role that trauma very often plays in alcohol and drug addiction.
The Connection Between Addiction and Trauma
Countless research studies confirm the profound link between addiction and trauma.
Nowadays, you’d be hard-pressed to read an article or research paper that doesn’t corroborate these findings.
Childhood trauma, specifically, can increase an individual’s risk of addiction in adulthood; but why is this, and, more importantly, how can you recognize the signs within yourself or someone you care about?
Trauma Causes and Care
There are many causes of trauma and in this Blog we will look at some of the most common, as well how utilizing an intensive Schema and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) approach can bring about incredible results.
CREA 2023 Awards
The esteemed CREA Award is proudly presented to Dr. Julia A. Andre by the Brainz Magazine Selection Committee, acknowledging her remarkable contributions to the field of trauma therapy and mental health…