My City Wellness Summer 2022

Meditation is one of several methods of holistic healing practiced at SHC.

Another service o ered at SHC is Recovery Reike®. “ is is my favorite!” Mareno-Wallen exclaims. Reiki is an ancient Japanese technique that uses light touch to guide the body’s energy ow and promote healing in the body, mind and spirit. Recovery Reiki is a program developed by Moreno-Wallen that speci cally targets the pain-body connection that keeps a person in negative cyclical patterns as they relate to addiction, codependency and trauma. “ is class will help you break free of those patterns so you can live a life of peace, love, bliss,” she states. SHC also o ers Auricular Acupuncture (Acudetox) and aro matherapy support groups. “Au ricular Acupuncture helps with cravings, anxiety and insomnia,” Mareno-Wallen shares. “Our data show an average of 80 percent reduction of symptoms in the people we serve.” Other services include Emotional Freedom Tech nique (tapping) and Community Drum Circles. Drumming is used as a healing meditative practice. Holistic healing groups meet three times a week at SHC from 6-7:30pm, and the format is similar to a meeting in a 12-step recovery program, the executive director explains. “It is a safe place for participants to freely express what they are going through.” A practitioner leads the meeting, performs Reike, a guided medi tation and closes the group with prayer. “Anyone can come to a

“We are providing a solution and I encourage people to come and try it. Holistic medicine works and it works well.” Tara Mareno-Wallen

group meeting,” she notes. “Every one is going through some kind of trauma. People share what trauma they are experiencing.” SHC is also host to many community events. “Recovery awareness and recovery support services are extremely important to encourage healing from addic tion,” she says. Community events include an annual walk and rally, arts andmusic show, “Trunk or Treat” on Halloween, an annual Christmas party andmost recently, Sober Social Night hosted at Cafe Rhema. e Halloween event was very popular last year with nearly 400 people attending. e Serenity House sta includes two recovery coaches, a

program coordinator and inde pendent contractors. Individual sessions are available by appoint ment only. SHC is located on Robert T. Longway in the Metro Community Development Plaza and open on Tuesday-Friday from 10:30am-7:30pm. Mareno-Wallen says there was a de nite need for this type of service in the Flint community, which has su ered a lot. “Flint is an amazing community that has been riddled with trauma. I love what I do. It is my passion and I can’t see myself doing anything else. We are providing a solution and I encourage people to come and try it. Holistic medicine works and it works well.” ®

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