Wholistic Recovery Program
Establishing a sense of safety in an uncertain world
Wholistic Recovery Program
Nourishing a sense of safety in an uncertain world
A step-by-step program if you have experienced a disaster
This program takes a trauma-aware approach.
Wholistic Recovery Program topics include:
How to identifying shock and the trauma response
Resolving exhaustion - Natural supports for your nervous system and adrenal glands
Mindfulness techniques - Learn to create a more balanced internal state
Sleep remedies - Advice and supports to manage insomnia and get the rest you need
Immune nutrition, herbs and supports to keep you strong and well
Emotional medicines - Practices and remedies to nourish you through the roller-coaster of emotions
Flood specific recovery tips - Preventing mould-illness
and more...
The program blends evidenced, natural medicines - including foods (recipes), herbs, nutrients and lifestyle actions - with practices from yoga, positive psychology and lifestyle medicine - and offers them as effective tools to support your recovery from disaster.
There is also has a helpful Resources Section, which provides polished disaster recovery tools from a range of professional organisations and other insightful practical knowledge.
Wholistic
Wholistic means taking into consideration your body, mind, emotions, community, society and environment.
It's shown that how you think impacts your hormones, and your immune system, and your emotions; all of it is linked.
By taking a wholistic approach, we know that by treating one aspect, that other elements will be affected too.
The program also recognises that your personal journey is unique, and important. In many sections there is space for you to share your lived experience to help others.
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Co-authored with Rebekah Russell
Rebekah Russell is a trauma informed naturopath, wellness program creator and facilitator, and has worked as a Blackmores Advisory naturopath for over a decade. She is also an ex- theology student who grew up in country NSW. This gave her an abiding love for nature and community.
Rebekah created her first well-being program in 2016 as a response to the mental health crisis facing the local veteran population and began research into how complementary therapies can support those experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and ultimately how a holistic healing approach supports resilience and personal growth.
The well-being programs provided a framework using the pillars of holistic well-being: nutrition, mindset, sleep, movement, mindfulness, community and the environment- with a specific focus on evidence-based complementary therapies that have been studied in the treatment of PTSD.
Being trauma informed or trauma aware is a recognition that that most of the population have been affected by trauma and having the compassionate understanding that many behaviours and symptoms are the result of adverse life events. It is asking the question “What happened to you?”, in the place of asking “What is wrong with you?”
Trauma aware principles include creating a felt sense of safety, establishing trustworthiness, ensuring choice and collaboration, engendering hope, empowerment and modelling respect for all expressions of diversity.
Rebekah is a lover of the Northern Rivers community and regularly visits for the unique educational opportunities, ongoing friendships and for the inspiring activism of the region. In 2021, she attended a course on Dadirri- Ancient Aboriginal Mindfulness practices with Professor Judy Atkinson in Lismore and more recently finished the Death Walking weekend with Zenith Virago in Mullumbimby.
Your Instructor
Sally Mathrick - Health Educator and Naturopath
Sally Mathrick is a health educator, university lecturer and practicing Naturopath since 2003. She works with both individuals and groups. Sparkle Well Programs are the culmination of her careers work in health care, environmental activism and deep ecology.
Personal Well-being = Planetary Health
Sparkle Well Programs take a systems view; embracing both the whole, individual human (body-mind-emotion) AND the world they live in, to map a simple step by step pathway to authentic well-being.
Sparkle Well Programs are underpinned by three concepts: Interconnectedness. Human Potential. Grace.
The programs weave through notions of deep ecological interconnectedness, our innate human potential to consciously and compassionately interact to co-create the next moment, and the vital harmony that pervades the living world; the vis medicatrix naturae; the naturopathic tenet of the healing power of nature.
Sally has written extensively on cleansing and natural detoxification, runs wellness courses and fasting residential retreats, both nationally and internationally. She earned three university degrees (Arts, Science and Complementary Medicine), contributes to conferences, and is a committed life-long learner.
� Frequently Asked Questions
When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.
What if I am unhappy with the course?
We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 30 days and we will give you a full refund.
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