National Yoga Awareness Month is a month-long campaign dedicated to raising awareness about yoga. Here at Villa Kali Ma, we are happy to sing yoga’s praises, far and wide! In many ways, yoga represents the heart of our program. Our founder, Kay White, credits her recovery from substance addiction in very large part to yoga.
As anyone who has been touched by suicide knows, death by self-harm creates enormous trauma in the lives of surviving loved ones, friends, and even casual acquaintances.
Every September, people living in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction are celebrated through National Recovery Month.
Opioids are highly addictive narcotics that induce numbness and cause feelings of euphoria. They are effective at suppressing pain in the short term but are also very addictive.
Passing states of worry, unease, edginess, and even fear are so commonly experienced that we might call them an ordinary part of life.
Positive recovery words are affirmations about ourselves and our recovery. Affirmations are formulated as present-tense statements, worded as if they are true already and taking place in the now moment. Affirmations use phrasing like “I am” and “I have”, (rather than “I will” or “I want to….”).
In times of turmoil, it’s good to remember that change is possible. How do we know change is possible? Because there have been many extraordinary moments in our collective past when positive leaps of societal evolution took place seemingly out of nowhere.
The annual shift from the warm, lazy days of summer to the cooling, darkening days of fall can and often does affect women’s feelings, stirring melancholy to rise up to the surface.
Most women can relate to experiencing a dip in mood about a week before menstruation, and the irritability, sensitivity, and vulnerability that well up.
Hormonal ebbs and flows are part of the biologically female experience
When we women at last realize that we are deserving of our love, cherishing, protection, and support, we become unstoppable. A woman who knows her real value is a benevolent, harmonizing, shaping force in the environment, a powerful creator and protector.