You were made
to be whole.
A community space where healing, art, and human connection light the way forward.
Find your way, your way
You deserve to be
“Wellness isn’t one thing — it’s everything that makes you feel fully alive.”
Rooted in creativity, community, and care — we create spaces where marginalized communities can heal, connect, and thrive.
Through conversation, movement, art, music, theatre, writing, nature, play, laughter, spirituality, and purpose — and the quiet magic of simply being together — we believe wellness isn’t one thing. It’s everything that makes you feel fully alive.
Guided by light,
rooted in community
The Lighthouse Center for Holistic Well-Being is a soon-to-be nonprofit dedicated to serving marginalized communities through the healing power of creativity, connection, and care.
We believe that wellness isn’t a destination — it’s a journey that looks different for everyone. That’s why everything we do is built around one simple truth: find your way, your way.
We create welcoming, affirming spaces where Lightholders can explore what healing looks like for them — through art, music, theatre, writing, movement, nature, play, laughter, spirituality, and purpose. Or through the simple, powerful act of being in community together.
See Our OfferingsRadical Welcome
Every person deserves a space where they are fully seen, accepted, and celebrated.
Creativity as Medicine
Art, music, theatre, writing, laughter, play, and movement are not luxuries — they are pathways to wholeness.
Nature & Play as Healing
We believe in the restorative power of the outdoors, of laughter, of joy — healing doesn’t always look serious.
Spirituality & Purpose
We honor each person’s spiritual journey and believe that living with purpose is itself an act of healing.
Accessible Wellness
Healing should never be a privilege. We work to remove every barrier to care.
Spaces built for you.
Our offerings are designed to meet people where they are — free and low-cost programming rooted in creativity, movement, nature, play, and connection. No experience required. No one turned away.
Community Conversations
Honest, facilitated discussions on the topics that matter most — mental health, identity, resilience, joy. A place to be heard and to hear others.
Book Club
We curate books that challenge, heal, and expand us — centering works from Black, queer, Indigenous, and marginalized voices while remaining open to any work that advances healing, self understanding, and community. We believe wisdom lives in many places and our reading list reflects that.
Music, Dance & Arts Events
From community music nights to film screenings and dance gatherings — we believe art is medicine, and we gather around it often.
Movement & Healing
Yoga, reiki, and body-centered practices offered in community. Healing the whole person means honoring the body as much as the mind.
Walking Dates
Sometimes connection is as simple as moving through the world together. Our walking dates are low-pressure, high-meaning community time in nature.
Play & Outdoor Recreation
We believe play is healing. Our recreational outings — community baseball games, basketball, skate days, and more — bring Lightholders together through joy, laughter, and friendly competition. Because sometimes the most profound healing happens when you’re just having fun.
Theater & Performance
We are building toward our very own original musical production — a storytelling experience rooted in truth, healing, and the power of the stage.
Come find us — and find yourself
All events are free. Donations always welcome. Every Lightholder is welcome.
You Belong
Here.
A Lighthouse Pride Afternoon
An afternoon of live music, community conversation, and books that see you — created for and by the LGBTQ+ community and all who love them.
2026
6:00 PM
Chattahoochee Hills, GA
thelighthousecfhwb@gmail.com
Book Club: Virtual Meeting 1 — How to Be Free
Our first virtual gathering for this session. We open the book, open our hearts, and begin the conversation.
Book Club: Virtual Meeting 2 — How to Be Free
We go deeper. Ten days of reading and reflecting between sessions — bring your thoughts, your questions, your feelings.
Book Club & Karaoke — In Person
We close the book and open the mic. Discussion first, then songs chosen to match the soul of our reading. Performance is invited, never required.
Juneteenth Film Screening: Origin
An outdoor screening of the film Origin — a powerful story about the origins of caste, race, and the ties that bind us all. Come as you are. Bring a blanket.
Pride Afternoon: You Belong Here
Live music, community conversation, and books that see you. 3–6pm · 12490 Hamilton Rd, Chattahoochee Hills, GA
We don’t just read books.
We live inside them.
Each session unfolds in three gatherings — two virtual meetings where we think, feel, and discuss together, and one unforgettable in-person night where we close the book and open the mic. Songs chosen to match the soul of our reading. Voices welcome, not required.
We meet approximately six times a year. No pressure. No gatekeeping. Just good books and good people.
Join the Book Club
How to Be Free — Shaka Senghor
A powerful memoir and meditation on transformation, accountability, and what it truly means to be free — from the inside out. Shaka Senghor spent nineteen years in prison, including seven in solitary confinement, and emerged with a story that challenges everything we think we know about punishment, redemption, and the human spirit.
📅 May 6 · Virtual Meeting 1 | May 20 · Virtual Meeting 2 | May 30 · Book Club & Karaoke (In Person)
A different kind of book club
Meeting 1 — Virtual
We open the book and open the conversation. A facilitated virtual gathering to begin thinking, feeling, and discussing together.
Meeting 2 — Virtual
About ten days later, we go deeper. More reading, more reflection, more truth. Bring your questions, your feelings, your unfinished thoughts.
Book Club & Karaoke — In Person
We close the book and open the mic. Discussion first — then songs chosen to match the soul of what we read. Performance is invited, never required.
Curated Reading
We center titles from Black, queer, Indigenous, and marginalized voices — books that challenge, comfort, and expand what’s possible.
Free to Join
No membership fees. No requirements. Show up with or without finishing the book. You belong here.
Six Times a Year
We run approximately six book club sessions annually — enough to go deep, with space to breathe between gatherings.
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A vision born from lived experience
Founder · The Lighthouse Center for Holistic Well-BeingXena is a single mother from Inglewood, CA — a former Division I athlete, a flight attendant of 20 years, and a lifelong student of the human spirit. She holds an undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Studies — with concentrations in Critical Thinking, the Psychology of African Americans, and Behavioral Psychology — from Norfolk State University, a proud HBCU. She is currently completing her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. But her most formative education has come from lived experience.
Xena grew up watching family members and friends struggle with addiction, trauma, poverty, and a kind of hopelessness that can feel impossible to name, let alone escape. For years she carried those wounds into her own life — enduring cycles of difficult relationships and depression that felt impossible to break.
Her healing didn’t come from a single source. It came through counseling, music, reading, community, and the courage to explore alternative and holistic ways of caring for herself. Slowly. Intentionally. She built a different life — for herself and for her children.
That transformation is the foundation of The Lighthouse.
Xena created The Lighthouse because she believes healing should feel safe, culturally relevant, and completely your own. She knows firsthand what it means to need support that actually speaks to who you are — your history, your community, your story. Her vision is a space where well-being is an act of resistance, and where every person has access to the kind of care that helps them not just survive, but come alive.
“Authentic spaces need to be created so that people may heal and move forward, catch their breaths, regain and create new rhythms, and reclaim their voices. Granted therapists and counselors provide valuable services to people in need but other havens can and do promote healing.”— Tracy Robinson Wood, The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity and Gender: Multiple Identities in Counseling
When Xena steps away from the work, you’ll likely find her coaching middle school basketball, singing in her cover band, losing herself in books and the kind of music that moves the soul. She’s a seasoned traveler who believes seeing the world is its own source of healing, a recreational sports enthusiast, and a devoted mother who is joyfully in the thick of raising her children. Rest and self-care are highly prioritized.
In other words — she practices what she preaches.
Keep the light burning
Your generosity makes it possible for us to offer free programming to the Lightholders who need it most. Every gift lights the way for someone finding their path.
We are in the process of obtaining our 501(c)(3) status. Donations are gratefully accepted and go directly to our programs.
💚 Cash App: $thelighthousecfhwb
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Whether you’re looking to join a program, become a Lightholder, partner with us, volunteer, or just say hello — we’re here and we’d love to connect.
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With love and purpose,
The Lighthouse Team