A destination rehab is a treatment facility set in a desirable location. Destination rehabs are often built in settings naturally conducive to healing and recovery, such as by the sea, forests, the desert, or mountains.
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For women struggling with substance abuse, mental illness, and/or trauma, lasting help can be found inside the supportive, healing structure of a high-quality Intensive Outpatient Program.
Intensive Outpatient Programs have many attractive benefits, but do they actually work to help people recover from addiction?
Figuring out what kind of care we need for our escalating mental health troubles can be intimidating. Amid the many approaches and pathways to mental health recovery available out there, how can we know which is the best for us? How can we avoid getting bogged down in information overload?
Recovery is nourished by truth in all forms. Liberation comes not only from heart-opening truths, the kind that melts us like butter in the sun but also from ugly, uncomfortable ones. The kinds of truths that make us squirm with a crawling unease, may be the most freeing of all.
Recovery may be a steep mountain, but it has been climbed many times before. There are maps, supplies, campsites, watering holes, and experienced mountaineers to help you make the trek.
At Villa Kali Ma, we talk a lot about healing women’s trauma. Healing women’s trauma is central to our mission of helping women recover lives of joy and meaning.
How is your self-love today, dear reader? Have you treated yourself with kindness and regard? Have you nourished the unique flame of your own life? Have you fed your body...
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Many centuries ago, a decision was made that the start of each year should fall just ten days after the winter solstice. Before Julius Caesar’s Roman calendar, and in some cultures still, the start of the new year was celebrated in springtime instead, on the spring equinox.
Happy New Year, dear readers! Thank you for your attention to Villa Kali Ma and what we have to share about how women can heal from addiction, mental illness, and trauma. We are wishing you a very bright, expansive, and beautiful 2025, full of inspiration, connection, and joy.
