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The Role of Nutrition and Self-Care in Detox Recovery

 

What we put in our bodies matters. That’s why, once we decide to detox from drugs and alcohol, we can benefit abundantly from a holistic approach to recovery.

Holistic approaches to addiction recovery acknowledge the central role that nutrition plays in rehabilitating the body, including the brain and nervous system. Restoring nutritional deficits caused by substance abuse, as well as addressing biochemical imbalances associated with trauma and mental illness, can powerfully impact well-being.

In this post, we’ll explore the role of nutrition and self-care during detox recovery.

Why Nutrition and Self-Care Are Essential During Detox 

Nutritional healing focuses on restoring essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals that have become depleted to suboptimal levels in the body, brain, and nervous system. There are many reasons nutritional depletion can happen, including:

  • A diet composed mostly of highly-processed, GMO, non-organic foods, such as the standard American diet. The standard American diet is low in needed nutrients and high in ingredients that harm the body, such as sugar, bad fats, refined carbohydrates, dyes, additives, GMOs, pesticide residue, and preservatives
  • Exposure to toxic chemicals in the environment due to living in cities, close to industrial manufacturing sites, or conventional agriculture
  • Drug and alcohol use, including excessive intake of prescriptions and over the counter medicines
  • Inadequate physical exercise, hydration, and time spent out of doors in green spaces
  • A stressful lifestyle or life circumstances, which require being in a state of high nervous system alert, such as living in poverty, in a war zone, in an unsafe domestic situation, or other kind of ongoing danger in the environment

Given all of these possible nutritional vulnerabilities, the average person entering a drug detox program begins their recovery journey from a starting place of serious depletion. That depletion is partially responsible for the body and nervous system’s poor state of health, but it also has a strong impact on mental state. It is very hard to sustain positive body states, feelings and thoughts, without the proper levels of needed minerals and vitamins.

In addition to addressing malnutrition, nutritional support helps reduce cravings and alleviates the physical and emotional intensity of withdrawals. People who receive nutritional support are better protected against relapse. Personalized nutritional support helps regulate and stabilize each person’s unique neurobiology, based on substance abuse history and other factors.

Replenishing the Body: Nutrients That Support Recovery

There are specific vitamins and minerals which are especially helpful for recovery from the imbalances introduced by drug and alcohol abuse. These powerhouse nutritional aids include:

  • Omega 3s to support restoration of brain functioning. Omega 3s are healthy, nutritious oils found in nuts, seeds and fish. Omega 3 supplementation helps stabilize mood swings. They may also be prescribed to address cognitive decline where brain damage has occurred due to drug and alcohol abuse, as may happen with excessive use of benzodiazepines (Klonopin, Xanax, etc).
  • Vitamin B12 to support nervous system rehabilitation. The class of B-vitamins has positive effects on many body systems, but most of all helps with the operations of the brain and nervous system. Increasing bioavailable B-vitamin levels helps with regulating anxiety and release of excess nervous tension.
  • Zinc, Selenium, and Magnesium for tissue repair and mood regulation, reducing irritability and depression
  • Vitamin C and D to support the immune system and boost overall health
  • Folic Acid to help with mood disorders and habits of emotional dysregulation
  • Probiotics to address gut health and immunity
  • Protein sources to help with neurotransmitter production
  • Carbohydrates and sugar reduction to help with blood sugar stabilization
  • Herbs, extracts and whole foods that support the body’s detoxification processes, such chlorella, dandelion, leafy greens, and burdock root.
  • Adaptogens like ashwaganda, mushrooms, or rhodiola, to help with reorganization of neural pathways affected by addiction

Overall, nutrients help replenish needed neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and serotonin, which play an important role in mental and emotional functioning. For women, nutritional support for hormone restoration is also frequently important, due to the ways that estrogen and progesterone interplay with substance abuse and mood.

Building a Detox-Friendly Daily Self-Care Routine

Nutrition and self-care both affect mood and energy. By developing a daily self-care routine that includes a focus on nutrition, women who are detoxing from drugs and alcohol can significantly improve their recovery experience. Here are some elements of a positive daily self-care routine.

  • Regular Meals. For optimal nutrient intake, it’s important to provide the body with predictability. Regular meal times and consistent amounts of food help stabilize energy levels. Energy levels affect mood and physical well-being. Energy spikes and drop offs correlate to mood swings, so keeping energy levels balanced through regular meals helps balance emotion and thoughts as well.
  • Nutrient-Dense Diet. When making food choices, focus on whole, organic clean foods that will source the body with needed vitamins and minerals. If you’re not sure how to choose foods that will replenish the body, nutritional counseling (such as that provided in our program at Villa Kali Ma! https://villakalima.com/sustainable-recovery/life-skills-nutrition/) will be very helpful. Generally speaking, nutrient-dense diets limit sugar, refined carbohydrates, and caffeine. Instead, the aim is to nourish the body with lean proteins, fresh organic vegetables, nutritious oils, and whole grains.
  • Adequate hydration is a necessity for the body, brain, and nervous system to function. When dehydrated, the body will drop into irritability, mood imbalances, and cravings. To help prevent that state, recovering women need to proactively replenish fluid levels with pure water, making sure to drink around eight cups of water per day (give or take, and adjusting per variations in body size and physiology). It is also important to source the body with natural sources of electrolytes, which can be found by drinking coconut water and through consuming electrolyte-rich foods like bananas, avocados, spinach, and nuts.
  • It is highly beneficial for the body, mind, and emotions to have a regular exercise routine, ideally a form of fitness activity which is relatively vigorous. It’s important to find something that will help the body to sweat and to use up available energy levels, such as running, dance, high intensity interval training (HIIT), biking, or aerobics. Whatever a woman’s current fitness level, the goal is to exercise the body to the point of pleasant exhaustion and energization. This can usually be accomplished in around 20 minutes. Exercising a few times a week is ideal.
  • Mindful Movement. In addition to exercise, it is good to schedule mindful movement into the day. Mindful movement is slow, gentle, and serves as a form of meditation in addition to helping the body’s energy flows. Qi gong, yoga, tai chi, and authentic movement are examples of movement practices in this genre.
  • Time Outside. The more green time available, the better support for your recovery. Trees and plants help with oxygenation levels, while earth, soil, and sand help with grounding and harmonizing the body’s electromagnetic field. Sunshine, sea air, and natural aromas carried by plants and flowers are naturally medicinal in their effects, stimulating immunity and relaxation. The beauty and abundant metaphors found in natural environments are not only soothing and relaxing, but help with psychological mechanisms of process and release.
  • Adequate Sleep. Keeping a regular, predictable sleep schedule is a basic self-care practice with extensive benefits for women in recovery. As possible, set a schedule that honors circadian rhythms. To do this, support the body to be awake and active during daylight hours, permitting it to rest and replenish after dark. Keeping the mind stimulated with screen time and consuming excessive entertainment media interferes with adequate sleep, so consider switching to IRL quiet time activities like reading (physical books), journaling, drawing, or crafts in the hours before bedtime.
  • Personal Showering, grooming and taking care of clothes and other aspects of appearance are part of self-care. Regular attendance to the body reflects levels of care for the self. Self-neglect, sometimes visible in neglect of personal appearance, is a signal that adequate levels of care may not be being met. Attending to the body’s cleanliness helps support recovery as a regular practice.
  • Keeping a journal, in which to jot down feelings and discoveries, is a helpful way to provide regular ventilation of built up emotional charge. Journaling also helps strengthen the part of us that can witness our process without over-identification with the contents of the mind. Journaling builds the capacity for self-awareness, a valuable asset on the recovery journey.
  • Short Meditations and Prayers. Meditation helps induce the relaxation response, bringing greater feelings of peace and ease through calming the nervous system. Even short meditations, of around 3-7 minutes, are helpful for strengthening the ability to access inner peace through easing tension. Depending on experiences with spirituality and religion, some women will find praying helpful as well.

How Villa Kali Ma Incorporates Holistic Wellness in Detox

As an innovative, integrative program helping women recover from addiction, mental health disorders, and trauma in the most natural and effective way, Villa Kali Ma brings holistic wellness approaches into our detox program.

From the beginning of the detoxification journey onwards, we provide nutritional support for the recovery process. Our clean, plant-based diet of whole foods and nutrients is designed to optimize provision of vitamins and minerals that women need to detoxify and replenish.

We incorporate yoga, acupuncture, mindful movement, meditation, breath work, massage, and many other beneficial practices into our schedule, to help women learn healthy habits inside and out. Our holistic interventions support regeneration of tissues, pathways, and functioning of each woman’s body, brain, and nervous system. We help prepare women to be ready to tackle the emotional learning work and perspective changes to come in the next stages of the recovery journey.

If you’re looking for a safe drug detox that will help you replenish your body naturally, consider our unique program for women!

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How to Prepare Mentally and Physically for Detox

Have you made the courageous decision to recover from substance addiction? Sincere congratulations, from our hearts to yours!

You might be wondering what comes next. Well, every recovery journey begins the same way, with detoxification. Drugs and alcohol have to be purged from the body in order to get a fresh start – physically, mentally and emotionally.

In this post, we here at Villa Kali Ma will share some thoughts on how you can prepare for this all-important first step of the journey.

Preparing for Detox: A Mental and Physical Wellness Guide 

Detoxification is the beginning of recovery. For safety and effectiveness of this  important purification process, we highly recommend a medically supervised detox facility, such as Villa Kali Ma’s Detox Program for Women.

The key reason to enter a medically supervised detox program is to reduce dangerous complications which can arise due to severe withdrawal symptoms. Some substances, including alcohol, have potentially life-threatening withdrawal symptoms, like seizures, heart attack or delirium. Whenever alcohol has been used in combination with other substances, including prescription medications, for your own safety it’s not wise to try to detoxify without medical monitoring.

In addition to the potential danger linked to withdrawal from certain substances, and especially substances used in combination, detoxification can be psychologically distressing and physically uncomfortable. Medically supervised detoxification is designed to minimize the difficulty of going through withdrawals.

Withdrawals can be physically painful, and it is also normal to experience intense cravings to return to drug or alcohol use as withdrawals peak. Medical personnel and a contained setting help safeguard you during this especially vulnerable stage, during which many women are tempted to return to using, just to treat the physical and emotional discomfort that surfaces during detox itself.

Finally, medical detox is really the start of treatment, and helps prepare for successful participation in a substance abuse program down the road.

Steps to Take Before Entering a Detox Program 

It’s a good idea to prepare the body and mind for detoxification before you enter a program. Detoxification is physically demanding. Every part of the body will be working hard to help eliminate the substance out of the system.

Detoxification is likely to activate painful emotions and mental processes as well. There are some emotional and mental preparation steps which can help to ensure readiness for the experience.

Here are a few simple ways you can prepare for entering a detox program.

Exercise

In the days or weeks before entering detox, support the body with gentle exercise. High-intensity workouts are not advised – you don’t want to tax the body.  Rather, try stretching, yoga, or qi gong. These practices help circulation and lymphatic drainage, both important during detox. Low-impact activities like walking, cycling, and easy aerobics in moderation can also be used to promote relaxation and release stress.

Reduce Screen Time

As soon as possible, reduce exposure to screen time. Whenever not strictly necessary, stay away from computers and phones. The body’s health is affected negatively by exposure to artificially-generated electromagnetic fields (EMF), including from devices. To help reduce the toxic load, you can give the body a break and help it attune to healing rhythms simply through avoiding artificially-sourced EMF wherever possible.

Other Ways to Prepare for a Detox Program

Increase Green Time

To actively support the body to tune to healthy EMF, let the body have time outside in nature, or a park or garden. The benefits of natural elements, including plants, animals, and exposure to the open air, are extensive. The body will be grateful for any fortification of immunity that can be had. If possible, arrange for skin-to-nature contact, for example through lying on the beach, walking barefoot, swimming, or even just touching nature materials like grass or leaves. There are many immune and psychological benefits to nature-bathing in any form.

Drink Water and Eat Clean

You can already begin gently flushing your system through increasing hydration and eating clean food. Drink plenty of pure water, and start consuming simple, nutrient-dense meals based on whole ingredients, fresh vegetables and lean proteins. Ideally, slowly reduce or eliminate sugar, caffeine, and junk food, as these stimulants deplete the body’s resources.

Sleep and Relaxation

Get as much good sleep and down time as you can. If the body wants to rest, let it rest and do not place unnecessary demands upon yourself at this time. You may also want to begin practicing breathing and other relaxation exercises, which can come in handy during the detoxification process. Below are some tips on breath work for beginners.

Breath Work

There are many simple, helpful breath work tools to choose from. The most basic way to practice breath work is to just notice it without changing it, perhaps saying to yourself “I am breathing in” while you breathe in, and “I am breathing out” while you are breathing out. It is normal to become distracted relatively quickly – that’s part of the practice. When you notice you got distracted, celebrate that you noticed, and start again.

The second-most useful breath work tip is to experiment with lengthening the out-breath. Making the out-breath longer than the in-breath will automatically induce a natural, gentle relaxation response in the body and stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system.

To try this approach, experiment to see if you can make your out-breath a few seconds longer than your in-breath. Begin with just counting the natural length of your in-breath (one-Mississippi, two-Mississippi…). Regardless of the length of the in-breath, try lengthening the out-breath by just a few counts longer. For example, if the in-breath naturally has a count of 6 seconds, then you may aim for an out-breath of 8 counts.

Do this for a short cycle of around 6 – 10 breaths total, then take a break and notice if anything shifted for you. Just observe, there is no other objective than to see if it works for you.

If the out-breath lengthening experiment doesn’t seem to work for you, don’t worry, there are many other breath work techniques. Choose one of the breath work exercises found here or try pairing breath work with visualization.

Pack Your Bag With Essential Detox Preparation

Some essential items can come with you into the detox facility. You will want to bring the following items:

What to bring:

-pajamas

-slippers or indoor shoes

-comfortable, loose-fitting clothes

-work out clothes

-options for layering, like sweatshirts and long sleeves

-personal hygiene items: toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, soap and hairbrush

-wallet, including ID and insurance cards

-list of any current medications

-a journal and pen

What not to bring:

-Scented products or perfume

-Electronics and devices

-Valuable items

-Jewelry

-Weapons or items that could be used as weapons (sharp objects)

-Drugs and alcohol

Managing Anxiety for Healing (Steps 1 and 2)

You can prepare mentally for detox by setting conscious intentions for your detox stay and practicing anxiety management techniques.

Intentions

Intentions are a powerful tool for any change process. Here is a brief process you can complete in your journal as a way to prepare.

Step 1: Set Intentions

Begin with tuning into your personal reasons and motivations for change. What do you sincerely intend?

I want to detox because…

I intend to be sober so that…

I will clear drugs and alcohol from my body in order to…

My goal is…

My heartfelt desire is…

If I didn’t have to know how, but could just focus on what I wish, I would wish that…

Step 2: Air Doubts and Concerns

The next step is to ask yourself if there are any parts of you inside who have doubts, fears, or concerns about the detox process. Name these worries.

I’m afraid I’ll mess this up and fail…

I’m doubting if I really have the willpower to follow through…

I’m concerned I’ll feel overwhelming cravings…

Setting Intentions for Healing (Steps 3 and 4)

Step 3: Surrender Your Fears

For each of the above-identified fears, reframe it using the phrase “I choose to surrender this [doubt/fear/concern] because…”

I choose to surrender this fear that I will fail because… all I can do is do my best

I choose to surrender this doubt about willpower because… I deserve a chance to try again

I choose to surrender my concerns about overwhelming cravings to use because… that’s why the medical staff are there, to help with that

Step 4: Give Kindness to Yourself

Finally, write out a few positive, sincere messages towards yourself. It can be hard to kind to ourselves, so if it helps, imagine what you would say to a very lovable friend going through a similar thing.

You are so brave, I love you

I’m so proud of you

I love you for who you are

I know who you are on the inside, you are not your addiction

All around the world, women just like me are suffering in the same way, and just like me, they deserve so so much compassion, help, and protection 

If this step of self-kindness is hard, you’re not alone! You may find some inspiration in Kristin Neff’s Self-Compassion practices.

Anxiety Management Strategies

Anxiety is a common experience during detox. Here are three anxiety management strategies you can practice ahead of time.

Three Easy Techniques for Managing Anxiety

  • Tune into your feet. Wiggle your toes, and notice sensations down there. Spread, lift, and press your toes into the floor, with no goal other than to observe any physical feelings you can detect. For many people, the feet are a safe part of the body, absent of feelings of stress or danger. Is that true for you?

See if you can notice any differences in sensation between distinct parts of the feet: heel, ball of the foot, arches, toes, top of the foot, sole of the foot, sides of the foot. If you’re not able to notice much sensation, use your hands to gently massage, stroke, or tap your feet. Ask yourself: is there any sensation of danger or discomfort in your feet, or do they feel like they could be a neutral zone? If neutral, then remember that you can always check back in with sensations in your feet when you need a non-stimulating part of your experience to focus into.

  • Activate your legs. In whatever way is comfortable and available to you, gently tense, bend, twist, and release the large muscle groups in the bottom half of your body. Focus on muscles in your glutes, quads, and calves. If available to you, try doing some gentle, slow-motion squats, or just crouch in a squatting position. As you’re tensing and releasing these muscles, know that you are helping your body to process and eliminate anxiety out of the body.
  • Send Your Anxiety into the Core of the Earth. Imagine that on your in-breath, you are gathering up all your burdens, worries, and concerns. Gather up the anxiety itself into a big ball of anxiety. Then on the out-breath, picture that you are sending all of the anxiety down through a firehose that goes all the way into the center of the earth. Keep breathing out to dump out all the anxiety into a space at the core of the earth. Leave all anxiety you breathe out there in the center of the earth, where it can do no harm and will easily be composted, processed, or burned up by the earth. Repeat for a few breaths if desired, allowing all anxiety to be moved from inside your body, into the body of the earth, who can hold it for you easily.

Supportive Detox Resources at Villa Kali Ma 

As a holistic facility, Villa Kali Ma approaches detoxification as an honored, important phase of the sacred process of recovery. In our medically supervised detox program, we combine effective, safe medical monitoring of the biological detoxification process with our signature approach of supporting mind, body, and spirit with holistic interventions.

Integrating light and gentle practices from the ancient healing systems of yoga, mindfulness, breath work, acupuncture, massage, and Ayurvedic nutrition, we help women start the journey homewards to what matters most inside.

Detox is where recovery begins. Eventually, we may be lead through our recovery to a more natural and soul-centered path. A path to healing all that once harmed us beyond measure, and to a life beyond that story. Through Villa Kali Ma’s many holistic resources and supports, we guide women who are recovering from drug and alcohol abuse to connect the detoxification process to their highest goals and sincerest heart’s longings for a better life.

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Can You Detox While Pregnant?

Women can be pregnant, and also be helplessly addicted to alcohol, prescriptions, and street drugs. Is this you? Is this someone you know? Don’t worry, you are not alone.

It’s a serious problem, yes. Many newborns start their lives addicted to drugs. These babies spend their first few days outside the womb going through the physical and psychological agonies of withdrawal.

This happens not because women don’t care about their unborn children, but rather because these women are fully enslaved, caught in a cycle of compulsive self-destruction wherein their personal willpower is ineffective to follow through on sane and rational decisions.

It’s really important to understand that these women are not bad people, they’re just addicted! Addiction behaves the same way in every single person, it’s not personal whatsoever.

If this is you, take heart. There is, as they say in AA, a solution. It’s called recovery, or living life fully sober, one day at a time.

Can you detox while pregnant? Is it safe?

It is possible to detox safely while pregnant, but it’s important to do so in a medical setting, or in a supervised detoxification facility.

Any substance that you are ingesting is being filtered by your placenta and shared with your baby as well. The impacts to your system introduced by a sudden absence of the drug will also affect the baby – the pain or suffering of withdrawal will be felt by the baby too.

To minimize the risk of birth defects, complications during childbirth, and extreme withdrawal symptoms, such as seizures or other life-threatening events, check yourself into a medical facility to undergo detox.

What should a woman know about detox and pregnancy?

The sooner you detoxify your body from all addictive substances and their harmful side effects, the better it will be for you and your baby.

If you are pregnant and addicted, do not wait to seek help. Every second counts, due to the relatively short and influential window of time during which a baby’s development is being determined by your own body’s condition.

The longer your baby is exposed to chemicals, the greater the risk of harm to the baby, in the form of death by miscarriage, birth defects, or being born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a condition generated when babies go into withdrawal at birth.

Getting sober begins with detoxification, or getting the drugs out of your system. Detoxification should always be monitored by medical professionals, because it is not an easy step of the process, psychologically and physically.

Many substances popularly used by addicted women today, including prescription opioids, benzodiazepines, and good old-fashioned alcohol, are dangerous to withdraw from due to the way they interact with key organs and systems in the body.

Seizures, heart attacks, and other life-threatening medical incidents can happen during detoxification. When pregnant, medical monitoring is essential to secure the life of the baby as well as to make sure the mother safely detoxes all harmful substances.

Why shouldn’t a woman attempt to detox on her own when she is pregnant?

There are several reasons to check yourself into a medically supervised detox if you are pregnant, rather than trying to detox on your own. These two are primary.

The first is that the withdrawal process can be dangerous to you and the baby, especially in the case of alcohol and prescription pills, and whenever drugs are used in combination with alcohol and medications. Sometimes medical interventions are needed, including medications administered to help reduce the severity of some of the worse withdrawal symptoms.

It will be much easier on you and safer for the baby if you are medically supported through the phase of cleaning psychoactive chemicals out of your body. If the withdrawal process were to go poorly, it is possible not only to lose the baby but also to lose your own life. A medical setting is essential.

The second reason is that most women underestimate the overpowering nature of cravings that kick in during detox. The further impact of pregnancy hormones can amplify cravings. Those who attempt to detox alone are much less likely to be successful at getting through to the other side than those who do it in a medical setting. When you’re pregnant, there isn’t enough time to try it and see if you beat the odds.

How to safely detox during pregnancy?

Detoxing safely during pregnancy involves making and following a plan together with other people. It should not be done alone as an impulsive reaction. The instinct to get clean, because you’re pregnant, is right and good, it’s just important to do it safely by following a plan.

The plan will involve medical personnel monitoring the detoxification journey, nutritional support, hydration support, and therapeutic services to help you through the worst of the emotional aspects of withdrawal.

The plan will also include where you will go after detoxification (ideally into residential treatment, or the next best available option for you), so you are as protected as possible from the urge to return to drugs and alcohol, and so that you can be properly supported to learn sobriety skills.

Immediately after detox, you will need to participate as actively as you can in a substance abuse treatment program, taking responsibility for your rehabilitation and recovery so that the transformation in lifestyle, thoughts, and feelings that is necessary for long-term sobriety can take place.

Recovery is accomplished one day at a time and never requires more than doing the very best you can, in the moment. You will only ever be dealing with the stretch of road right in front of you, which means a lot of letting go of control, plans, and expectations, instead learning to be adaptable and to take things as they come, with as much courage and cooperation as possible.

It is best to keep things very, very simple, and to keep your priorities crystal clear, sobriety being priority number one in every single moment. You may want to prepare yourself for the fact that, to stay sober every day, especially in the early days, takes commitment and full surrender to the process. This almost always means doing things you feel resistant to doing and following people’s advice and examples.

This is a temporary stage in which you are rebooting your whole life. All the difficulties of early recovery are eventually rewarded later on, with a surprising joy that you won’t be able to predict, but which will make it all worth it (and more).

Much like motherhood itself, sobriety will be an adventure – it might seem scary now, but once it arrives you will never be able to imagine your life without it. If this is you, we’re cheering you on!

What to expect during detox while you’re pregnant?

Being in the unknown is hard for all women. When you’re deciding to get off drugs, and you’re pregnant, you have every right to feel vulnerable and scared of what’s to come. We’re here to tell you that if you relax, follow instructions as they come, try to stay out of fear, and surrender to the process, you can get through this challenging stage.

Perhaps you can draw comfort from knowing that many women have gone before you into this same unknown, and come out the other side intact. Countless numbers of women who stood where you are now have gone on to live beautiful, humanly-imperfect lives together with their daughters and sons.

One barrier that sometimes scares women off from entering detox is fear of pain. Pain is a temporary part of the withdrawal process, it’s true. It is also part of giving birth. But pain can be, and is, tolerated and survived, every day, by women all over the world. And furthermore, there is a big difference between pain with support, and pain without it.

If you are in a medically supervised detox setting, there will be taper-down options for slowly adjusting to having less pain-numbing substances in your body. Some doctors may suggest medications that can help you reduce slowly, and/or drugs to counteract withdrawal symptoms, as well.

In your first sober weeks, in treatment, there will also be emotional support options for helping you to manage the anxiety you may be having about pain, fears of the unknown, and just feeling plain terrified to be a mother (or a mother again). Know that your courageous decision to get clean for your own sake and for your baby is meaningful and important, and so so valued.

Villa Kali Ma can assist pregnant women with detox and addiction

Villa Kali Ma offers medically supervised detoxification as a part of our spectrum of addiction treatment services. We welcome all women into our doors, including pregnant women.

Our programs for women address substance abuse, mental illness, and trauma through a combination of evidence-based clinical methods with holistic practices like massage, acupuncture, and yoga.

If you’re pregnant, first of all, congratulations. If you’ve decided to detox, congratulations again! We’re here for you if you need us.

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