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.
5 REASONS WHY WILLPOWER IS NOT ENOUGH
You may think that you have a pretty strong will, which is probably one of the reasons you are frustrated that it is not working for your efforts to stop your alcohol or drug use. Even people who are successful in exerting their will to reach academic, professional, and other personal achievements are baffled that the same determination does not seem to work for a drinking or substance abuse issue.
How to Support an Alcoholic or Addict Without Enabling
Recovering from a drug or alcohol addiction can be difficult. You have to overcome physical withdrawal symptoms, cravings, and mental roadblocks in order to get sober. The path to sobriety isn’t easy, and it doesn’t get any easier the more times you tread it.
Recreational Drug Use vs Addiction: What’s the Difference?
Recovering from a drug or alcohol addiction can be difficult. You have to overcome physical withdrawal symptoms, cravings, and mental roadblocks in order to get sober. The path to sobriety isn’t easy, and it doesn’t get any easier the more times you tread it.
Unfortunately, many recovering addicts and alcoholics tread the path several times – sometimes due to a few ‘false starts’ and for others, they get sober and relapse much further down the line. There are also those who repeatedly get sober and repeatedly relapse after a certain period of time, again and again.
Whether you have continued to stay clean and sober or have had trouble staying on track, it is important to get back to basics as we enter a second lockdown and restrictions.
Is It Safe to Stop Drinking at Home?
Recovering from a drug or alcohol addiction can be difficult. You have to overcome physical withdrawal symptoms, cravings, and mental roadblocks in order to get sober. The path to sobriety isn’t easy, and it doesn’t get any easier the more times you tread it.
Unfortunately, many recovering addicts and alcoholics tread the path several times – sometimes due to a few ‘false starts’ and for others, they get sober and relapse much further down the line. There are also those who repeatedly get sober and repeatedly relapse after a certain period of time, again and again.
Whether you have continued to stay clean and sober or have had trouble staying on track, it is important to get back to basics as we enter a second lockdown and restrictions.
Relapse and Recovery After Relapse
Recovering from a drug or alcohol addiction can be difficult. You have to overcome physical withdrawal symptoms, cravings, and mental roadblocks in order to get sober. The path to sobriety isn’t easy, and it doesn’t get any easier the more times you tread it.
Unfortunately, many recovering addicts and alcoholics tread the path several times – sometimes due to a few ‘false starts’ and for others, they get sober and relapse much further down the line. There are also those who repeatedly get sober and repeatedly relapse after a certain period of time, again and again.
Whether you have continued to stay clean and sober or have had trouble staying on track, it is important to get back to basics as we enter a second lockdown and restrictions.
Lockdown 2.0 and Staying Sober During COVID-19
As many people around the world enter into a second lockdown period, we want to remind those in recovery about how to stay connected and focused on recovery during these challenging times.
Whether you have continued to stay clean and sober or have had trouble staying on track, it is important to get back to basics as we enter a second lockdown and restrictions.
What Is Crack Cocaine Addiction?
Crack cocaine is a hard, mineral-like substance with an off-white tint. It is most often smoked through a glass pipe (often called a stem or rose because they are sold with a rose inside of them) and inhaled, though some people use soda cans or aluminum foil to heat it.
Crack is made by mixing the powder form of cocaine with water and another substance, usually baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) or ammonia. This mixture is then boiled and a solid substance forms which is then cooled and broken into smaller pieces or “rocks” known as crack cocaine