US EditionScream your way to happiness? Maybe not, but scream clubs promise some relief
About 17 chapters use guided breathing and three group screams outdoors to help participants relieve stress and release emotions, with sessions often held weekly or monthly.
- Seventeen Scream Club chapters have emerged across the United States in less than a year, offering outdoor spaces where participants release stress through collective, primal screaming.
- Co-Founders Manny Hernandez, a breathwork practitioner and men's coach, and Elena Soboleva, a personal brand and business mentor, launched the movement after spontaneously screaming on a Lake Michigan pier.
- Sessions typically involve writing burdens on biodegradable paper, followed by deep breathing and vocal warm-ups, before participants scream three times together and discard paper in water.
- Amber Walcker, who started the Seattle chapter, said the experience leaves participants feeling grounded: "It's kind of like putting everything to rest," allowing people to "start fresh."
- Ashwini Nadkarni, a psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School, notes research has not proven scream therapy effective for mental health conditions, though participants value the activity as stress relief.
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With a gut-wrenching wail that rippled from her body, Amber Walcker joined about a dozen screaming people in West Seattle who let their frustrations float away over the Puget Sound. It was just the start. The two group screams that followed, each one longer and more intense, released the pain from Walcker’s recent job loss. Her added stress from raising two young children dissolved as it blended with the sound of lapping water, and a deep sense …
Scream your way to happiness? Maybe not, but scream clubs promise some
With a gut-wrenching wail that rippled from her body, Amber Walcker joined about a dozen screaming people in West Seattle who let their frustrations float away over the Puget Sound. It was just the start. The two group screams that followed, each one longer and more intense, released the pain from Walcker’s recent job loss. Her added stress from raising two young children dissolved as it blended with the sound of lapping water, and a deep sense …
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