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Last! Affordable Alternative Care!
By
Kathryn Sargent, Editor
“I'd
love to have alternative health care,”
an Aquarius reader wailed on the telephone.
“But it costs almost as much as traditional
medical care, and it's not covered by
insurance. I simply can't afford it!
Do you know anyone who charges less?”
She asked.
At
the time, I had no answers for her, but
now I do! For the first time in the history
of Georgia's IRS, someone has applied
for and obtained Non-Profit, 501 ( c ) 3
status for an alternative health care center!
World Community Healing Center in Smyrna,
Georgia, has a mission: to provide quality
alternative health care, even if the client
has no money at all!
Focussing
on educating their clientele about their
healing process on body, mind, and spirit
levels, the World Community Healing Center
of Atlanta, Inc. (WCHC) offers classes and
consultation on nutrition, exercise, and
spinal hygiene (ergonomics and stretches).
You can attend meditation, get a massage,
Reiki, aromatherapy, reflexology, hypnotherapy,
chiropractic adjustments, or naturopathic
consultations. “There's something
here to address the whole being: it's
a body/mind/spirit approach. That's
what made it so hard for the IRS to understand,”
Christine Picior, one of the founders, laughs
mischieviously. “But they came around.
They saw it our way. It was a great blessing.”
If
you ask about lower cost service, you will
be asked to provide a copy of your pay stub
(or other documentation) to show your income.
If you have a job, but you have several
children and one is sick, draining your
budget, things like that will be taken into
consideration, too. Your fee for services
will be decided on a sliding scale, based
on what you can afford. If you can't
afford to pay anything, you will be asked
to volunteer some time to help answer phones
or do other jobs around the center. You
will be welcome whether you can pay or not,
as Christine Picior, Leigh Roessner, and
their staff are “dedicated to the education
and empowerment of all people to understand
and utilize their inherent ability to heal
their own lives.”
I
asked Christine how she decided to do a
non-profit center. She said she had a client
whose daughter was very ill. The financial
drain had become a family crisis, too. The
woman said she'd love for her daughter
to have alternative care, but they couldn't
afford it. Christine and her daughter, Leigh,
went to the family's home and worked
on the client's daughter with Reiki,
massage, and chiropractic. The daughter
really got a lot out of it, though her illness
eventually proved fatal.
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