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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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What Happens During a Medically Supervised Detox?

 It’s totally valid to feel nervous before detox. For most of us, starting a detox from drugs and alcohol is a leap into the unknown. Any change is a heroic act, requiring courage and surrender.

Making a decision to enter detox is a beginning and an end in the same moment, a combination of letting go and beginning again. Letting go of what we can no longer control, we begin a course of action that will lead us back into the heart of our lives.

Although a map of the detoxification process is not the same thing as the terrain itself, it helps to have an inkling of what’s to come. With a general idea of what to expect, we can prepare ourselves physically, mentally, and emotionally for the journey.

In this post, your friends at Villa Kali Ma will do our best to map out the general features of medically supervised detox, so that you can make empowered choices when it comes to choosing a facility for your safe drug detox.

What to Expect During a Medically Supervised Detox

The purpose of medically supervised detoxification is to safely clear drugs and alcohol from the body. Some substances, including alcohol, have physiological withdrawal symptoms which can be potentially life-threatening. In a medically supervised detox program, around-the-clock clinical care ensures a fully safe passage through the physical withdrawal process.

The detoxification process typically lasts around five to seven days. During these days, medical personnel monitor your state, providing medical interventions if needed. Medicine that modulates withdrawal symptoms may be administered if it is deemed necessary to help stabilize your system.

As the body purges the addictive substance and its chemical residue, it is typical to experience hallmark symptoms. These withdrawal symptoms will be different based on the substance that is being cleared from the body. Common withdrawal symptoms include tremors and shakes, nausea, headaches and body pain, sleep disturbances, and in some cases, delirium and seizures. Some withdrawal symptoms are experienced primarily as psychological, such as racing thoughts, anxiety, and depression. It’s also part of the withdrawal process to experience intense craving for the substance.

Women who have mental health disorders and/or trauma as well as substance addiction typically experience the withdrawal process more intensely. In the absence of the addictive substance’s painkilling, euphoric, or energizing effects, existing emotional and mental pain is experienced as amplified.

It’s important to understand, finally, that detoxification is the first step to recovering from substance abuse. Detox is not the same as treatment, and it isn’t reasonably likely to be successful as a standalone measure on its own, because getting the drugs and alcohol out of the body is just the beginning. To recover, the underlying mental and emotional pain which made using substances necessary has to be healed. For that reason, medically supervised detoxification is meant to be followed by several weeks of intensive treatment, and/or daily active involvement in a 12 Step program.

The Phases of Detox: From Evaluation to Stabilization 

The phases of detoxification happen in the following sequence: evaluation, stabilization, and preparation for substance abuse treatment.

Evaluation

During the evaluation phase, a comprehensive assessment is administered, to ensure all factors are understood. These factors are substance abuse, mental health needs, physical health history, social context, and personal background.

Co-occurring disorders, including trauma diagnoses, affect the detoxification process, informing the way that each person experiences the journey. The purpose of the initial evaluation is to make a personalized detoxification plan.

Note that you may expect early-onset withdrawal symptoms such as nausea, shakes and anxiety to begin already during the initial evaluation phase.

Stabilization

The stabilization phase is when most of the detoxification process takes place. This stage includes initial withdrawal and acute withdrawal, and ends when the patient’s system is stabilized.

During stabilization, detox patients are closely monitored and may be supported with medical interventions to reduce physical pain or psychological distress. This phase of intensive clinical symptoms lasts several days, generally peaking around three days in, which marks the transition from initial withdrawal to acute.

The initial withdrawal phase, usually up to three days, is when the body rids itself of toxins from the addictive substance. The movement of the chemical out of the body’s channels of elimination, while ultimately very positive for the body, first creates discomfort, such as pain, nausea, cravings, and feelings of intense unease.

The acute withdrawal phase, starting around day three and lasting up to four more days, is when withdrawal symptoms may spike to their highest peak, before gradually winding down.

Preparation for Substance Abuse Treatment

Once the stabilization phase is completed, medical personnel help prepare patients to leave the detox facility and enter a substance abuse treatment program. It’s important to understand that although initial and acute phases have finished, withdrawal symptoms are not done yet. After initial and acute withdrawal phases, there is a long, less acute stage of the detoxification process known as post-acute withdrawal.

Post-acute withdrawal includes persistent, lingering physical and psychological effects which do not destabilize the whole system, but still need to be treated. Post-acute withdrawal symptoms include ongoing dread and unease, sleep problems, mental health symptoms, and cravings to use. It is important to receive substance abuse treatment immediately after leaving a medically supervised detoxification facility for this reason, to protect against relapse in this supremely sensitive phase.

How Medical Teams Ensure Comfort and Safety 

The role of medical supervision in the detoxification process is an important factor in ensuring the safety and comfort for people with substance use disorders, as they begin the journey of recovery.

Medical supervision is there to help manage withdrawal symptoms, which can be life threatening in some cases. Even when not posing a danger to a patient’s life, withdrawal symptoms are physically uncomfortable and emotionally distressing. The presence of medical professionals to observe and oversee the process creates a controlled environment, reducing risk of complications and enhancing safety and effectiveness.

Medication

Where appropriate, healthcare providers in a medically supervised detoxification facility use medically-assisted treatment, (MAT), to ease a patient through the danger and pain of withdrawals. MAT uses medication to reduce symptoms and ease cravings.

The medication used in an MAT intervention depends on which substance is being cleared from the patient’s system. For example, benzodiazepines or phenobarbital may be prescribed during alcohol withdrawal to reduce the risk of seizure. During opioid detox, medical personnel may prescribe an opioid agonist, like methadone, or a partial opioid agonist, like buprenorphine (or Suboxone, a brand name medication which pairs an opioid antagonist called naloxone with buprenorphine).

Activities

The atmosphere in a medically supervised detox facility should be gently supportive of psychological as well as physical healing. A good detox will provide initial counseling and other interventions, like easy, accessible mindfulness training and  opportunities for exercise. These activities are to help soothe emotions, as well as prepare a patient for entering substance abuse treatment after detox.

Begin Your Safe Detox Journey at Villa Kali Ma

Eliminating drugs and alcohol from the body is the first step of the recovery journey. The experience of detox is different for each woman, depending not only on which substance (or combination of substances) she has been using, and for how long, but also on her unique personhood. At Villa Kali Ma, we support each woman’s detoxification process through many adjunct healing modalities that help purify and restore body, mind, and spirit.

As a holistic program, we know that detoxification is about more than just removing chemicals out of the body. Thoughts, emotions, and even spiritual layers of a woman’s life can be poisoned. Not only by drugs, alcohol, chemicals in the environment, personal products, and food, but by the many kinds of toxicity in our culture, including harmful beliefs and attitudes.

Returning to wellness means returning to wholeness, a radical transformation that touches every last hidden pocket of soul within us. Through yoga, massage, acupuncture, nutritional support, and organic, plant-based diet, we help women start recovery off with a strong foundation, cleansing multiple levels of being. If you’re looking for a safe drug detox with a holistic mindset, consider our medically supervised program. We’d love to help you safely and effectively detox, to set you up right for beginning your life anew.

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