About Elemental
Fusing ancient philosophical wisdoms, mystical insights and a deep understanding of the human condition, Elemental is a trauma healing service like no other.
About Me
Hi, I’m Mohamad Tabbaa, founder of Elemental Trauma Healing.
Elemental was born from my childhood rage.
I had so much unexplainable anger as a child, and I didn’t know what to do with it. I would experience constant fits of rage and lash out at the people around me, hurting them and then feeling terrible about it. At 14 I decided I was no longer going to act on this rage, and decided to supress it, thinking I had resolved it. I would spend the next many years paying for this decision, completely disconnecting from my emotions, remaining trapped in my mind and suffering a host of physical injuries.
My parents tried to help. They would take me to the hospital and tell them there’s something wrong with our child, why is he so angry and violent? The doctors would assess my body and give me a big tick – I was always very athletic and healthy, and then they would assess my mind, and give me an even bigger tick – I was gifted intellectually.
But I was in so much pain. My body was tense. I had severe digestion issues. I had constant headaches. I was excreting blood. I was always injured. I was scared. I was insecure. And I was extremely confused.
About Elemental
Elemental is a unique trauma healing service designed for the conditions of modern living.
Modern humans are a unique bunch. We eat, sleep, work and play differently to any other period of human existence. And we suffer differently than previous humans did as well.
But no matter how unique our modern traumas are, the essence of healing remains the same: a return and reconnection to Self.
Elemental takes the wisdoms of ancient healing and medicine philosophies and fuses them with modern techniques, to offer a unique healing method that treats trauma at its source.
Using the ancient framework of the Four Elements (Fire, Earth, Water, Air), we take you on a guided journey of self-discovery and transformation, showing you the parts of yourself that are keeping you stuck in trauma cycles. We guide you through the healing cycle in a non-judgemental, safe manner, meeting you where you are and giving you the tools and support to see you through the darker parts of your Self.
Are you ready to meet your higher Self?
The Elemental Mission
The Elemental Mission is the transformation of modern medicine.
We need an overhaul of the entire basis of the medical and therapy systems that are quick to diagnose but slow to treat, quick to experiment with harmful drugs but slow to heal, and quick to make you feel like there’s something wrong with you, but slow to acknowledge the traumatic effects of modern living.
Modern medicines and therapies are based on a philosophy of the body and mind, called Cartesian Duality. This philosophy understands the human as a body and a mind, and dismisses the emotional and spiritual realms as genuine sites of experiential meaning and knowledge production.
When I was put through the rings of the modern medical system, they assessed my body and my mind, and concluded that I was in great shape. My first psychologist asked me why I was seeking therapy when I was a “rock”. The body-mind philosophy that underpins these medicines and therapies means they’re unable to identify or heal the emotional and spiritual traumas that cause the mental and physical illnesses that their clients present with.
This is why we end up stuck in the medical system for years, treating symptoms, only for them to return stronger. And this is why we mistakenly believe that it takes years to heal from trauma.
The Elemental Mission is about healing not just individuals, but society as a whole. The philosophy of body-mind is itself traumatising on a societal level, denying the most fundamental parts of our existence, meaning that we go through our human journey largely unconscious, anxious and confused.
Our Mission is to make healing a way of living.
The Elemental Vision
The Elemental Vision is about restoring the human to their rightful place in the order of things, as custodians engaged in stewardship and service, rather than dictators engaged in control and possession. It’s about recreating a way of living that is in harmony with our surroundings, not at war with it.
Our Vision is the recreation of a world where our waterways are no longer toxic, but purifying, as they were intended to be. A world where our children can plant a seed in the soil, and we don’t have to warn them not to eat its fruits because we’ve made them poisonous. Where the air we breathe isn’t attacking us, and we aren’t wondering why fires are constantly ravaging the land.
Everything around us, including us, can be medicine, or it can be poison.
The Elemental Vision is healing the trauma before it turns us to poison.