Luxury Rehab: More Than a Treatment Center

Many people don’t get the addiction help that they need because they cannot connect with the proper treatment or recovery center that fits their needs. For many, this is why luxury rehab is so important – they require individualized and comprehensive addiction care that is tailored just for them. There is no one way to recover; for some, it involves luxury rehab.

Healing at the Cellular Level: Finding the Right Treatment Center

So, what exactly is healing at the cellular level? Healing at the cellular level is all about holistic healing. But, the question then becomes, “What is holistic healing?” Many people are mistaken when they think that holistic healing strictly resides in Eastern medicine and practices, such as yoga and meditation.

No, holistic simply means “whole.” So, holistic healing means “whole healing.” This means healing all aspects of the capital “S” Self: the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Now, that is what healing at the cellular level is all about.

The iconic spiritual leader and Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh famously said, “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” This is part of healing at the cellular level, too – letting go of the past that weighs us down and stops us from growing. Also, this is a big component of effective luxury rehab – mindfulness.

The Importance of Individualized Addiction Care

The primary component of luxury rehab is going to be the individualized approach. A luxury rehab must be tailored to the needs of each and every client. Too often, recovery centers only offer overarching “one-note” recovery plans. This is often because they are putting their own financial bottom line over the concern for their client.

Luxury rehab is going to start with a comprehensive intake process. This is going to include an understanding of the individual’s familial, biological, genetic, occupational, and social life. It is also going to determine if there are any other issues that need to be addressed, such as co-occurring issues of mental health. Many people don’t realize just how common co-occurring disorders of addiction and mental health are. 

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), “Many individuals who develop substance use disorders (SUD) are also diagnosed with mental disorders, and vice versa. Multiple national population surveys have found that about half of those who experience a mental illness during their lives will also experience a substance use disorder and vice versa. Although there are fewer studies on comorbidity among youth, research suggests that adolescents with substance use disorders also have high rates of co-occurring mental illness; over 60 percent of adolescents in community-based substance use disorder treatment programs also meet diagnostic criteria for another mental illness.” This is also why being able to recognize the signs and symptoms of comorbidities is so important.

Better Understanding Comorbidities: The Signs and Symptoms

Now, the signs and symptoms of comorbidities of addiction and mental illness (also known as co-occurring disorders) are always going to vary based on the individual. However, one can look out for many universal signs and symptoms. The following are just a few of those signs and symptoms:

• Losing interest in activities once enjoyed
• Having feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness, and helplessness
• Not being able to stop once starting drinking or using substances
• Using alcohol or substances to self-medicate for emotional struggles
• Having trouble with sleep cycles, including sleeping too much and not sleeping enough (hypersomnia and insomnia)
• Experiencing physical ailments such as headaches, body aches, and gastrointestinal problems
• Feeling anxious, nervous, or overly “stressed out”
• Loss of appetite and a lack of care regarding physical appearance and well-being
• Exhibiting excessive mood swings
• Isolating away from family and close friends
• Experiencing trouble at work or school
• Engaging in risky behaviors
• Causing harm to oneself or others
• Having suicidal ideation

Now, as one can see, these signs and symptoms of comorbidities are significant and can even be deadly. This is why reaching out for professional help as soon as possible is vital. Doing so could mean the difference between short-term side effects and long-term consequences. It is also important to have a better understanding of the “disease” of addiction.

Understanding Addiction as a Disease

Many people struggle with the concept of addiction as a disease. These people often think of addiction as some type of moral failing or “choice.” However, addiction has been medically classified as a disease, and it is widely agreed upon that it is a chronic disease (just like heart disease, cancer, or diabetes). Addiction is a chronic disease because it will not get better on its own. It takes some type of intervention for the individual struggling to get well.

According to NIDA, “Addiction is defined as a chronic, relapsing disorder characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use despite adverse consequences. It is considered a brain disorder because it involves functional changes to brain circuits involved in reward, stress, and self-control… Addiction is a lot like other diseases, such as heart disease [because] both disrupt the normal, healthy functioning of an organ in the body, both have serious harmful effects, and both are, in many cases, preventable and treatable.” Addiction is also a “family disease.”

The family disease component of addiction simply means that addiction affects more than just the individual who is struggling. This is often what addiction is referred to as: “a tornado that destroys everyone and everything in its path.” As a family disease, addiction also needs a family solution, which is why finding a luxury rehab that offers comprehensive addiction care is so important.

The Importance of Comprehensive Addiction Care

Comprehensive addiction care is about using as many effective means, methods, and modalities as possible to ensure the most well-balanced recovery. This is important because not everyone is going to respond to the same types of treatment, so there needs to be multiple options.

It is also important that comprehensive luxury rehab utilizes recovery options from all avenues of recovery. This includes psychotherapies like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), experiential therapies like nature-immersion therapy and art therapy, and holistic healing methods like yoga therapy and mindfulness meditation. However, with luxury rehab, the care and options often go much further.

Better Understanding Luxury Rehab

Luxury rehab is all about creating a cutting-edge experience that is unique to each and every client. This means having all of the latest equipment and modalities, as well as some of the best professionals in the recovery field.

With Exclusive Hawaii Rehab, our luxury experience can start before a client even arrives at our luxury 30-acre property. This is because we have some of the best interventionists in the world who are ready to help and licensed in all 50 states. We also have an amazing staff that is prepared to tailor the experience directly for the client as soon as their arrival is confirmed. This may include special requests like dietary restrictions and preferences or privacy concerns.

At Exclusive Hawaii Rehab, we are also equipped to handle an array of elite clientele. This ranges from CEOs to celebrities to professional athletes. We have the means to help any client and the ability to be discreet in all circumstances. We also have the means that can help anyone recover at the cellular level, starting with nutrition.

Luxury Rehab: A Focus on Nutrition

Here at Exclusive Hawaii Rehab, we have a maxim: “Food is medicine.” That is why we take nutrition so seriously. We have some of the best nutritionists and dieticians on staff to work directly with our clients. We even have our own licensed naturopath doctor directly on staff.

Many people don’t realize just how nutrient-depleted individuals struggling with addiction are. According to the peer-reviewed journal Nutrition Reviews, “[S]ubstance use can compromise the user’s nutrition and greatly affects their dietary habits. In general, this population has a disrupted and chaotic lifestyle, and money is usually spent on drugs rather than on food. This severely affects the user’s food intake, which eventually leads to undernutrition, [and] other factors affecting the nutritional status of drug users include the type, frequency, and duration of the drug used and the presence of infectious diseases.” This is also why we utilize pharmaceutical-grade supplements here at Exclusive Hawaii Rehab.

However, we don’t just focus on the nutritional aspect of food. We also believe that food must be delicious and satisfying. That is why we have world-class chefs preparing tailor-made meals utilizing local and organic ingredients. We also believe in utilizing cutting-edge therapies like ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP).

Luxury Rehab: Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy

KAP has been receiving a lot of attention in recent years. This is for two reasons. One is that it is slowly getting past the stigma that has been associated with it. Two is that it is showing to be more and more effective.

According to the peer-reviewed journal BJPsych Open, “Approaches to ketamine therapy that involve active therapeutic support, such as KAP, leverage the subjective psychoactive effects of ketamine administration to maximize therapeutic benefit. Indeed, although the role of the acute psychoactive effects of ketamine remains a subject of debate, theory and research suggest that these effects may be important and perhaps even central. For example, a ketamine-assisted psychotherapy session using a single psychedelic dose of ketamine produced higher rates of abstinence from heroin users than did a low sub-psychedelic dose.” KAP has also been shown to reduce suicidal ideation.

According to the peer-reviewed journal, Molecular Psychiatry, “The actions of ketamine to induce rapid antidepressant effects are in sharp contrast with the delayed effect onset of currently approved antidepressant treatments, which is particularly important in cases of patients with suicidal ideation, where a lag in the onset of antidepressant action has been associated with increased risk for suicidal behavior. Ketamine has been also shown to induce a rapid amelioration of suicidal ideation in major depressed patients and to rapidly reduce anhedonia.” KAP also works well in tandem with other experiential therapies.

Luxury Rehab: A Focus on Nature

One of the greatest luxuries on the Hamakua Coast of Hawaii’s Big Island is its nature. There are some of the most amazing waterfalls, beaches, and overlooks just minutes away from our luxury property at Exclusive Hawaii Rehab. There is even a live volcano that is waiting to be explored!

The benefit of having such amazing nature is also that nature-immersion therapy can be utilized so readily. The reality is that many people live overly stressful lives due to their environment. This can lead to issues of addiction and/or mental illness. Nature-immersion therapy can help reduce these struggles.

According to the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, “As a result of these stressful situations, nature therapy, a health-promotion method that uses medically proven effects, such as relaxation by exposure to natural stimuli from forests, urban green spaces, plants, and natural wooden materials, is receiving increasing attention. It is empirically known that exposure to stimuli from natural sources induces a state of hyperawareness and hyperactivity of the parasympathetic nervous system that renders a person in a state of relaxation. This state becomes progressively recognized as the normal state that a person should be in and feel comfortable with.”

Luxury Rehab: Connecting With Others

Another important aspect of luxury rehab is being able to connect with other people who have had the same experiences. This helps people to feel that they are not alone and that there is hope. It also greatly reduces the chances of a relapse. 

Working with others in recovery is so important that there is even a chapter named after it in the primary text of 12-Step recovery (commonly referred to as the Big Book). The chapter (“Working With Others”) states, “Practical experience shows that nothing will so much ensure immunity from drinking [and using] as intensive work with other [people in recovery]. It works when other activities fail… You can help when no one else can.” This is also why group therapy can be so effective for addiction recovery.

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), “The natural propensity of human beings to congregate makes group therapy a powerful therapeutic tool for treating substance abuse, one that is as helpful as individual therapy, and sometimes more successful. One reason for this efficacy is that groups intrinsically have many rewarding benefits – such as reducing isolation and enabling members to witness the recovery of others – and these qualities draw clients into a culture of recovery. Another reason groups work so well is that they are suitable especially for treating problems that commonly accompany substance abuse, such as depression, isolation, and shame.” Holistic healing also works well in group settings.

Luxury Rehab: A Focus on Holistic Healing

The iconic yogi and spiritual leader B.K.S. Iyengar famously said, “We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.” This is symbolic of why meditation and yoga can be so important for recovery. They help to heal at the cellular level (holistic meaning “whole”).

Yoga and meditation have been practiced for thousands of years. Originally, they were solely used as spiritual or religious practices, but they have since moved into the recovery realm. Yoga and meditation offer a myriad of benefits, not the least of which are emotional regulation, physical wellness, and an opportunity to connect with a sense of spirituality. Other helpful luxury holistic healing methods are massage therapy, aroma therapy, and acupuncture.

Healing at the Cellular Level With Exclusive Hawaii Rehab

Here at Exclusive Hawaii Rehab, we believe in long-term success over short-term “fixes.” This is why we offer luxury rehab that is individualized and comprehensive, with a focus on the future. That is what healing at the cellular level is all about.

Recovery is ready and waiting. The key is to go out there and get it. You got this! We can help.

Luxury is not just about comfort; it’s about creating a transformative healing experience. Here at Exclusive Hawaii Rehab, we combine high-end accommodations with cutting-edge therapies to provide a holistic approach tailored specifically to individuals seeking profound change and healing from addiction. There is a solution. If you feel like you or a loved one is struggling with issues of addiction, mental illness, or co-occurring disorders, we can help get you on the positive path toward long-term recovery right away. You don’t have to go through this process alone. For more information about the exceptional benefits of luxury addiction recovery, please reach out to Exclusive Hawaii Rehab today at (808) 775-0200.