Every Sunday night in Chicago, a group meets at North Avenue Beach for a unique therapy. They scream out loud. Scream Club Chicago is a weekly meet-up where people come to release stress by screaming. The event is free, and more people join each week.<\/p>\n
The group meets every Sunday at 7 PM near Castaways in Chicago. One mother, Mamie Amin, even brought her 5-year-old daughter to show her how to express tough emotions.<\/p>\n
“We’ve had a lot of change in our life lately, and my daughter has been feeling a lot of feelings, and I feel like it’s a really good thing for her to see grown-ups handling all their sad, hard feelings in a healthy way,” Amin told ABC7.<\/p>\n
Scream Club Chicago was started by Manny Hernandez, a coach who moved from Los Angeles. He explains why he decided to start the club.<\/p>\n
“You never have permission to scream in the middle of your apartment<\/a>, because the police will get called, so I decided to start something where people can meet up,” Hernandez said.<\/p>\n According to co-founder Elena Soboleva, it\u2019s a \u201csafe space\u201d where no one judges. People feel supported and free to be themselves.<\/p>\n Xander Ruvalcaba joined once and now comes every week. He says shouting made him feel lighter and happier.<\/p>\n “I attended one day, and it made me feel happy at the end of it, getting all that screaming out of my system,” he said.<\/p>\n How does it work?<\/p>\n