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Dr. Viriato Ferreira

Dr. Viriato Ferreira is the president of VitaSalus. He is board certified Doctor that graduated from University of Cape Town Medical School. He did Clinical work in general medicine in various professional and geographical settings (academic institutions, rural hospitals and urban medical centers; in South Africa, Namibia, UK, USA and Portugal). He frequently participates in national and international public television networks. Board member of various health institutions. International consulting work in lifestyle medicine and health policy. Co-founder and President, Portuguese Association of Preventive Medicine. Co-Founder and past President of Adventist Help, a volunteer-based organization providing health care to refugee populations in various continents.

Stress and Immunity

Jhuamia Pile

Jhuamia Pile—best known as Mia—is a native of Nashville, TN. Mia is a graduate of Tennessee State University with a Bachelor’s degree in English. As a certified Mental Health First Aid Instructor and former Life Alignment Depression Program Facilitator for the Wildwood Lifestyle Center, Mia brings a world of experience into all of her presentations and trainings. After spending 15 years in ministry and as a teacher/principal, life tragedies hit so hard that she thought she lost her faith. As a survivor of abuse, Mia candidly makes herself vulnerable by sharing her own personal experiences with depression, suicidal thoughts, fears about God, and the tools she used to overcome them. She is on a mission to combat the stigmas surrounding mental health, and to equip everyday people to be prepared to help in the event of a mental health crisis encounter.

How to Recover from a Nervous Breakdown

Dr. Neil Nedley

Neil Nedley, MD, is founder and medical director of the community-based and residential Nedley Depression and Anxiety Recovery Programs™ and Optimize Your Brain™. Dr. Nedley is an award-winning practicing physician who also serves as president of Weimar University, a higher education college that houses the world-famous NEWSTART program. He has presented and published numerous scientific studies in the medical/scientific literature and is well known as an author, public speaker, and teacher throughout the world. 

How to Improve Mental Efficiency and Academic Performance

Kate Chartrand

Kate Chartrand is Certified Life & Stress Management Coach. She holds a BA in Math Education from Brigham Young University and an MA in Family Science from Concordia University-St. Paul, and have received coach training from the World Coach Institute, Spencer Institute, and Academy for Coaching Parents International. Her experience coaching stressed-out professionals of global companies, and her own experience as a mom of 5 of learning how to overcome burnout and stress, has made her an advocate for helping driven working moms overcome stress and live their optimal lives. Her coaching clients have realized gains in areas of their personal and business worlds, including decreased stress, improved time management, organization, accountability, communication skills, and improved relationships.

Healthy Boundaries for Working Moms

Dr. David DeRose

David DeRose, MD, MPH, currently serves as President of CompassHealth Consulting, Inc. He is a physician holding board certifications in both Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine. He also earned a master’s degree in Public Health (MPH) with an emphasis in Health Promotion and Health Education. In addition to his conventional training, DeRose has three decades of experience with lifestyle medicine and other natural therapies. Known for his knack for explaining difficult subjects, he is a popular talk radio host heard weekly on over 170 stations, public speaker, and writer, being published in peer-reviewed medical journals as well as in the lay press. He is co-author of the bestselling book, “Thirty Days to Natural Blood Pressure Control.” His most recent release, “The Methuselah Factor,” makes the complex subject of hemorheology practical and understandable to lay and professional audiences alike.

The Beatitudes – A Cross-Cultural Spiritual Prescription for Stress Management

Magna Porterfield, Ph.D.

Dr. Magna Porterfield is a psychologist who received her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Ohio State University.  She is licensed as a psychologist in both the states of Georgia and Alabama and also has a diploma in nutritional consulting. Dr. Porterfield taught on the college/university level for 7 years  (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Oakwood University).  She was also in private practice for 13 years in Atlanta, GA. In 2007, she made a decision to leave her formal private practice to start a health education ministry that focuses on mental, physical and spiritual health. Dr. Porterfield is currently married to Ron Porterfield, a lifestyle consultant and coach (formerly worked as a staff member at Uchee Pines Institute). Both she and her husband have conducted various seminars in the United States and abroad. The Porterfields have a particular interest in helping others achieve health based on principles from the Bible, science, and inspired writings. Dr. Porterfield is also an author and has written several books, the most recent entitled, “Keys to Optimal Mental Health.”  She also continues offering mental health counseling and coaching. 

Stress and Your Thoughts

Barbara Hemphill

Barbara Hemphill works with leaders worldwide who want to ensure that they let God work with and through them to create healthier cultures, more productive workplaces, and a more compassionate world. Over the decades, she has developed world-class expertise in helping individuals and organizations to tame the chaos and clutter that keep them from being effective, calm, and ultimately free. Her first best-selling book, Taming the Paper Tiger, helped her launch and grow the Productive Environment Institute in 2008. In 2020 she launched another passion project—The Shepherd’s House Ministry in India to demonstrate the power of Biblical principles to save lives and foster entrepreneurship. The legacy she invites everyone to share with her is one of creating hope where there is none so that people can live the life God intended for us to enjoy. 

A 5-Step Plan for Organizing Your Office and Reducing Your Stress

Dr. Daniel Binus, MD

Dr. Binus completed his medical training and psychiatry residency at Loma Linda University, where he became fascinated by the beauty of the mind. Dr. Binus spent many hours studying the emotional, physical, spiritual, and biological factors that influence mental health. This study made him passionate about treating the cause of mental illness, and not just masking the symptoms. Dr. Binus completed a master’s degree in Public Health Education and enjoys conducting lectures and workshops on depression and other mental health topics. He also developed a mental health curriculum for the HIV/AIDS orphans of sub-Saharan Africa, which is currently being implemented in the country of Lesotho. March, 2011, Dr. Binus and his wife Melissa moved to Auburn and founded Beautiful Minds Medical. Since that time, the practice has grown to include psychiatry, counseling, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) therapy and intensive outpatient care. Dr. Binus is grateful for the opportunity to work with the Auburn community, one beautiful mind at a time.

Resilience – How to Make Friends with Your Stress

Dr. Annika Sorensen

Dr. Annika Sorensen is a Medical Doctor, Stress Management Mentor, Author and International Speaker on topics revolving around the successes brought by less stress including financial and business success. She specializes in health and stress strategies and has a solid background in Swedish Public Health Care for 30 years. With profound personal, clinical and scientific knowledge about the subject, she has made it twice to TEDx. She is also certified by The Big Talk Academy, and the author of two top-rated books on stress management “Take Stress from Chaos to Calm” and “My De-Stress Diary.” Today Dr Annika is Helping Stressed out Business Leaders slow down, reflect, feel less stress, and then ramp up and get more done and create bigger success without having to work harder. She does it through speaking, workshops, online courses and mentoring.

A Simple Crash Course in Stress Management

Jhuamia Pile

Jhuamia Pile—best known as Mia—is a native of Nashville, TN. Mia is a graduate of Tennessee State University with a Bachelor’s degree in English. As a certified Mental Health First Aid Instructor and former Life Alignment Depression Program Facilitator for the Wildwood Lifestyle Center, Mia brings a world of experience into all of her presentations and trainings. After spending 15 years in ministry and as a teacher/principal, life tragedies hit so hard that she thought she lost her faith. As a survivor of abuse, Mia candidly makes herself vulnerable by sharing her own personal experiences with depression, suicidal thoughts, fears about God, and the tools she used to overcome them. She is on a mission to combat the stigmas surrounding mental health, and to equip everyday people to be prepared to help in the event of a mental health crisis encounter.

Mental Health First Aid – How to Help Someone Displaying Warning Signs of Mental Illness

Mark Sandoval, MD

Mark Sandoval is a board-certified emergency medicine and lifestyle medicine physician with a focus on discovering the mental/spiritual causes of disease and addressing those causes in a Biblical context. He is the president of New Paradigm Ministry. He is also well-acquainted with lifestyle interventions and the use of natural remedies, having worked for almost a decade in Uchee Pines Institute, running intensive, residential lifestyle programs, helping individuals reverse their diseases, stop their medications, and go free.

From Anxiety to Peace

Merlyn Matthews

Merlyn is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor working primarily with children, adolescents, and their families. Merlyn earned two Master’s degrees from Washington Adventist University in Counseling Psychology and Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Her experience began with an internship at an outpatient mental health where she continued to work after obtaining her license. She enjoys membership with the American Counseling Association and Psi Chi honor society. She currently volunteers at Pro Bono Counseling Project Maryland and other platforms offering psychoeducation to small groups of adults desiring emotional support.

Anxiety and Stress – What is the connection?

Paul Dysinger

Paul Dysinger is a professional gardener who is passionate about seeing more people grow their own beautiful organic veggies in their back yards and turn our industrial food system upside down. He is the founder of the well renowned Born to Grow garden training library and Seedtime, the gardening/farming app that lets you visually plan your garden in just minutes and with just a few clicks, all based on your local growing area.

Gardening for Stress Control

Clidia Rhys, MD

Born in Argentinian Patagonia, where she still resides, Dr. Clidia Rhys graduated from medicine school at River Plate Adventist University. Later, she went on to study Neuroscience with a specialty in psychiatry at Maimonides University. She has worked in private practice since 2008 as a psychiatrist, psychologist, and counselor. For the past four years, she has traveled internationally, presenting seminars on the mind-body relationship, thus, integrating faith and health.

Outward Events and Inner State – How do they interact in the genesis of anxiety

Dr. Horst Müller

Dr Horst Muller is an ENT Specialist and International Speaker.  He is the founder of ENT Weinheim which specializes in helping patients relieve various chronic ailments. Treating his patients, he soon discovered that many symptoms were not caused by any physical cause, which led him on a journey to discover the root cause of those ailments. He developed as a result his Law of Life series, that he is presenting in lectures all around the world.

The Origin of Thoughts Producing Stress, Anxiety, and Loss of Control

Vicki Griffin

Vicki Griffin, MS, Human Nutrition; MPA is the author and producer of the Balanced Living, Quit Nicotine, Lifestyle Matters Health Intervention Series and the Fit & Free! Building Brain and Body Health Series. Vicki is the Director of Health Ministries for the Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and the Editor of Balance magazine and Balanced Living tract series. Vicki lectures and travels worldwide sharing the lifestyle link to better mental, physical, and spiritual health. Her special area of interest and research is the relationship between diet, lifestyle, stress mechanisms, and brain health.

Stress and the Entertainment Trap

Erica Buchholz, Ph.D.

Erica Buchholz is a certified life coach specializing on finding the root cause of Job Burnout. Erica worked on over 20 jobs for years that were a bad fit for her, until she decided to create Job Burnout Life Coaching, in order to help others who are stuck in a boring, painful, or bad-fit career path. She also did a 10-month intensive coach training through the Martha Beck Institute. Received a Ph.D. in Applied Developmental Psychology. Erica enjoys playing with her child, hiking, camping and watching water any chance she gets.

Managing Stress at the Workplace

Martin Neumann
Martin Neumann took in 1998 the Lifestyle Educator Course at Wildwood Lifestyle Center & Hospital. He worked then 3 years as a staff of the instituion and helped to develop materials for the Health Expo and the Abundant Live presentation series. Since then he has lectured in different parts of the world about a healthy lifestyle and natural remedies. He is the founder of the Abundant Health website and instructor the Stress Management Tools.

An Integrative Strategy to Stress Control

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