The situations people bring us, how the work is done, and the four program lengths — 14, 30, 60 and 90 days, plus custom. Every program is all-inclusive and discussed personally with Mac or Laura before anyone arrives.
Most people come to Vita Nova dealing with more than one thing at once, and most cannot name it precisely when they call. That is not a problem. You do not need the right vocabulary to start — you only need to know that something has to change.
These are the situations we see most often. They overlap constantly, which is part of why a single-issue approach so often fails the people who end up here.
By the time most people reach us, the substance is only part of it. There is also the hiding, the broken promises, the shrinking world, and the private certainty that this is simply who you are now. We work on all of it, not just the drinking or the using.
Anger that arrives faster than you can stop it. Shame that makes honesty feel impossible. A running internal commentary harsher than anything anyone else would say to you. These are patterns with origins, and origins can be understood rather than simply managed.
Something happened, or someone is gone, and ordinary life has not made room for it. Grief that gets postponed does not disappear — it reappears as anger, numbness, or compulsion. Here there is finally time and privacy to let it be what it is.
High-functioning people are often the last to be taken seriously, because from the outside everything still looks fine. Meanwhile the body has been running on alarm for years. Slowing down is not indulgence; for some people it is the entire intervention.
Sometimes the crisis is not one person but the space between two people. We work with partners and family members when it is appropriate, because a person who changes in isolation is returning to a system that has not.
No single catastrophe, just the accumulating sense that your life stopped being yours. A transition you did not choose, a direction you lost, a version of yourself you cannot locate anymore. This is a legitimate reason to come, and it is more common here than people expect.
You do not have to have it figured out before you call. That is what we are here for.
Vita Nova is not a facility and there is no curriculum. What exists instead is a small home, two people who do this work personally, and a maximum of eight guests at a time. Within that, the work follows a consistent shape.
Nothing changes underneath a story, and most people arrive with a well-rehearsed one. The first real work is putting it down — which is only possible somewhere small enough and private enough that there is nobody left to perform for.
Almost everyone arrives moving too fast to think. Before insight is even possible, the nervous system has to come down. Sleep, food, water, movement, quiet — unglamorous, and the foundation everything else is built on.
Laura builds a full DISC behavioral profile for every guest. It explains why you react the way you do, why certain people trigger you, and why the same argument keeps recurring in different rooms with different faces.
Insight alone does not release what the body is holding. Twice-weekly in-home massage, daily movement, water time, golf, and pickleball are part of the week for exactly this reason — not as amenities, but as part of the work.
Trust, direction, discipline, and self-respect are not restored by deciding to have them. They are rebuilt through small kept commitments, repeated daily, in front of people who notice. That is what living in a home with two people who know you makes possible.
The point is not who you are in a calm house — it is who you are under pressure with real people. So the work happens in ordinary settings: cooking dinner, losing at pickleball, being disagreed with, being told the truth kindly.
We also work with family members and loved ones when it is appropriate, so that healing does not happen in isolation — and we treat every person here like family rather than like a case.
The honest guidance is this: interrupting a pattern takes days, but replacing it takes months. Short stays create relief and clarity. Longer stays create change that survives contact with your ordinary life.
That is why the 90-day Full Transformation is the most selected program — and why a significant number of people who arrive for two weeks choose to extend once they feel what the work actually is.
Sometimes the most urgent need is simply getting out — out of the environment, out of the pattern, out of the daily situation making everything worse. The Intensive Reset is for someone who needs to stop now.
Two weeks is not long enough to rebuild a life, and we will not pretend otherwise. What it is long enough for is interrupting the momentum, sleeping properly, and getting to the honest version of what is actually happening.
Best for: an urgent break in the pattern, or a first step for someone not yet ready to commit to longer.
Thirty days is where the work moves past the initial relief of being somewhere safe and into genuine reconstruction. The first week settles the body. The remaining three do the harder work.
This is the point at which the DISC profile becomes practical rather than interesting — you begin recognizing your own patterns while they are happening rather than afterward.
Best for: someone who knows the problem is real and wants meaningful change without an open-ended commitment.
At sixty days, new behavior stops being an effort of will and starts becoming ordinary. That shift is difficult to force and almost impossible to rush.
This length also creates room for the family side of the work — the conversations about what you are returning to and how those relationships need to function differently.
Best for: people who have tried shorter approaches before and found that the change did not survive the return home.
Ninety days is the most selected program, and the one Mac and Laura recommend when circumstances allow. It is long enough that the person who leaves is genuinely operating differently rather than managing carefully.
The final stretch is deliberately forward-looking: structure, relationships, work, and the specific situations that have historically pulled you back — planned for concretely while support is still present.
Best for: anyone who wants the change to be permanent rather than temporary.
Some situations do not map onto a fixed length. Custom arrangements are available and are built around the specific person, their obligations, and what they are actually facing.
Best for: circumstances that require a different shape entirely. Discussed directly with Mac or Laura.
There is no tiered pricing at Vita Nova and nothing is held back for an upgrade. Every guest, on every program length, receives all of the following.
Substance use, anger, self-hate, shame, trauma, grief and loss, burnout, anxiety and emotional overwhelm, relationship and marriage breakdown, family crisis, loss of direction, isolation, major life transitions, and the general sense of being stuck, broken, or out of control. Most people arrive with several of these at once.
No. Most people cannot name it precisely, and many describe only that something has to change. Naming it accurately is part of the work rather than a prerequisite for starting it.
The 14-day Intensive Reset is $45,000. The 30-day Rebuild Program is $85,000. The 60-day Life Change Program is $150,000. The 90-day Full Transformation is $210,000. Custom lengths are quoted individually. Every figure is all-inclusive.
Everything: private airport transportation, the private room, all meals including a weekend private chef, one-on-one coaching with Mac four to five days a week, twice-weekly in-home massage, a full DISC behavioral profile, 24-hour private security, and activities. There are no add-on charges once you arrive.
The 90-day Full Transformation is the most selected. Longer stays give patterns time to actually change rather than pause, which is why most people who arrive intending to stay a shorter time end up extending.
Full payment is required before arrival. Vita Nova is entirely private pay and does not bill insurance directly.
Yes. Custom lengths and arrangements are available and are discussed directly with Mac or Laura on your first call, since the right structure depends entirely on the person and their circumstances.
All programs are private pay and require full payment before arrival. Vita Nova is a private wellness residence for adults 21 and over, with a maximum of eight guests.
Mac or Laura will talk through the lengths with you honestly, including whether Vita Nova is the right fit at all.
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