What must it be like to wake up in the morning knowing for certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you are walking the road of becoming your full-flowered Self?
Imagine knowing for sure that the “hopeless case” image, offered to you every morning by your self-doubt, shame, and self-criticism, has nothing to do with you whatsoever.
We’re here to tell you, you’re not that “you” – you are something else, some One else, entirely. But just like billions of other people on this planet, if you’re bogged down in trauma, mental illness, and addiction, your inner light – a native, creative intelligence and beauty surpassing all expression – has not much chance of getting your attention.
This isn’t your fault at all. We’re all in the same boat – us here at Villa Kali Ma too. But one thing we can tell you for sure is that the life within you is waiting eagerly to be lived, and that it will respond to your attention and your courage to change, with a loving readiness that might astound you.
We know, we know. We know all the reasons it’s so so hard. All the yeah buts and the I tried thats. We know.
We know all about how the sameness stays in place. And yet – we also know there comes a day when the desire to change overcomes the fear-bound forces that insist we stay tight, stuck and small. In the words of the writer Anaïs Nin:
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Is this speaking to you, friend? If so, we rejoice in it. This blooming comes for all of us. Somehow, some way, when the time is right, Self flowers.
The only question for you is – is your time for budding now, or later?
At Villa Kali Ma, we do our imperfect best to provide and ongoingly refine our healing services for women who are ready to bloom and grow. We trust that if you come to us, some budding something within you is ready for it.
One of the programs we offer, our Intensive Outpatient Program for women, is designed to entrain women to a reliable rhythm that supports growth of Self, while allowing her the chance to stay involved in ordinary life to a large degree.
In this article, we walk you through a day in the life at Villa Kali Ma’s Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) for women. We’ll illustrate how our IOP balances real life with daily healing practices, talk about how consistent care supports growth and resilience, and share more about how you can discover connection and transformation through attending our IOP.
A Day in the Life at Villa Kali Ma’s Women’s Intensive Outpatient Program
A day in the life at Villa Kali Ma’s Intensive Outpatient Program for women reflects the hybrid, “best of both worlds” structure inherent to IOPs. All IOP programs combine treatment with life in the real world. What distinguishes our program from other IOPs is our signature weave of alternative, holistic modalities addressing mind, body, and spirit, gracefully incorporated into the fabric of our clinical core treatment approach.
Our IOP provides intensive treatment together with flexibility of schedule. Our female-positive, compassionate and holistic IOP is designed to immerse participants into a new, positive lifestream. Women undergo deep transformation while maintaining a measure of continuity with respect to their pre-existing life roles and responsibilities. Through living at home and staying involved in work, women are able to integrate positive changes little by little. Due to the hybrid structure that combines treatment with “life in the real world”, our IOP provides many chances to practice new skills live in the field.
So while days begin and end at home, ensconced in ordinary life, the hours of the week dedicated to treatment are deep journeys into healing realms. Each treatment hour touches mind, body and spirit. Within the halls of Villa Kali Ma’s IOP facility, recovering women learn new skills, ranging from the physiological to the cognitive to the transpersonal. These skills are then taken away to be practiced and tested live in the world. Learnings, personal challenges and victories are brought back to treatment next session, for celebration, anchoring, and further support.
Balancing Real Life with Daily Healing Practices
Our IOP for women balances real life with daily healing practices. We accomplish this by administering treatment in modules that are nestled into the rhythms of ordinary life. These modules take place during treatment blocks distributed throughout the week, primarily evenings and weekends, to accommodate most women’s work schedules.
Each treatment block immerses women in healing practices ranging from yoga to cognitive therapies to mindful self-compassion. Each facet of women’s multidimensional existence is addressed, through a combination of clinical and holistic interventions. The somatic, therapeutic and recovery life skills we introduce empower women to access states of peace, connection, and freedom from misery, and to continue to do that ongoingly once they graduate our program.
During IOP hours, our clients learn to use these skills, as our therapeutic staff and holistic practitioners provide guidance, instruction and chances to rehearse new, positive behaviors safely under supervision. These new healing practices are then further integrated into regular life through trial runs at work and at home.
All in all, attending our intensive, holistic treatment program while continuing with ordinary life teaches the art and practice of balancing real life with practices of daily healing.
How Consistent Care Supports Growth and Resilience
Consistent care supports growth and resilience. This is true in all things, material and spiritual. We women recovering from trauma, mental illness and addiction must expect that what we begin in recovery will require follow up and follow through.
For those of us who fear we can’t do that, we won’t know how to do that, because we haven’t been able to do that before – not to worry. How precisely to become trustworthy stewards who honor our deepest call to full-flowered life is part of what we learn in Villa Kali Ma’s IOP for women. Here we approach the shared ground of life thoughtfully, showing women how they can tend for the patch of life that’s rightfully theirs over the decades of joy, initiation, and vivid living to come.
Recovery is indeed like setting up a garden or planting an orchard – one we intend to visit daily and nurture with ongoing attention for years, if not decades, to come. Like real gardens, patience and regularity are rewarded in recovery from trauma, mental illness and addiction.
Not coincidentally, consistency is a main ingredient in forming strong interpersonal bonds, which are necessary for recovering felt-sense experiences of safety and connection with others. This includes our relationship with ourselves.
What was wounded in relationship can only be repaired in relationship, as the oft-quoted tenet of therapy goes. A good portion of the trauma that underlies women’s addictive and self-destructive behaviors is relational. Wounds that were incurred long ago between ourselves and the people upon whose love we were dependent for survival, hurt us until they are actually repaired. But the person with whom we repair attachment now is our Self, the real source of reliable, regenerative love. The one within we have all been waiting for.
Consistent tending of our healing garden sees us through the many phases of recovery. Villa Kali Ma’s IOP is a place where women can experience how consistent care supports growth and resilience in the inner realms of profound, transformational healing.
Discover Connection and Transformation in Our IOP
Connection and transformation take place in Villa Kali Ma’s Intensive Outpatient Program for women every day. This is because we provide the right conditions for women to unfold safely and authentically. Women who struggle with addiction, mental illness, and trauma do so because they never got to have the supported, healthful life circumstances that would have nurtured confidence, capacity, and resilience.
Luckily, it’s not too late to begin again. At Villa Kali Ma, we help with relational repair, by providing opportunities to bond with healers and with other peers in treatment. The healing of relationships on the outer plane helps significantly with resurrecting the inner relationship with Self that is the primary healing agent.
In addition to these chances to bond with healers, peers, and Self, our program teaches all the necessary skills for ongoing spiritual and psychological work. The fruits of inner tending are lush and nourishing, bringing vitality not only to ourselves but to those loved ones we have longed our whole lives to be able to protect and nurture as well.
Villa Kali Ma’s Intensive Outpatient Program for women is a place to find connection and transformation.