The Life in Business: Alakea Healing Center

A decision by the Veterans Administration to cut off funding to a program that was helping some Vietnam veterans moved Family Nurse Practitioner Nancy Emery to take matters into her own hands. While training at the Upledger Institute, she learned about a treatment program, where eight veterans who were on many medications, self medicating with drugs and alcohol, and having multiple problems in their personal lives, all had profound healings, decreasing medications, turning around their lives, and ending their addictions. Then it was stopped.

“It has been a dream of mine to make such a difference in other people’s lives,” Emery says. “Having grown up in the Vietnam era, worked in a drug and alcohol program in Portland, Oregon, spending years working on a psychiatric unit of the local hospital, and seeing people in my private practice, I realized that the traumas of war, and life in general, stayed with people for their lifetime. But I also saw deep healing when I was able to empower people to let go of their past fears and traumas and to move into a place of self-generated power within themselves.”

After working in the allopathic medicine world, Emery has now been in alternative medicine practice for about 15 years, with a private practice opened in 1995, called Dolphin Healing Touch. “People with whom I had begun to work with using deep emotional healing and gentle body work were making changes in their lives that enabled them to take charge and heal themselves.”

Emery’s new business, Alakea Healing Center, is her vision to offer a safe space for veterans and their families, as well as the general population, to come for healing and wellness.

“I work at a very deep level with people combining deep emotional, physical, spiritual, mental healing. I am focusing on veterans and their families using an alternative to drugs. I also offer gentle detox options to cleanse the body of toxic substances and helping to balance the body to heal. I plan to offer classes in empowerment, manifesting life dreams, meditation, nutritional eating, teaching children to help others out of a place of love, and art workshops, just to name a few. ❖

Alakea Healing Center is located in Kainaliu at 79-7393 Mamalahoa Hwy. Suite 6B, across from Oshima Store. Nancy can be reached at 938-4763, or by email. You can read more about her on her website.