Program Offers Advance on Wellness

By Allison Canter

A Day of Sharing Wellness was held Saturday, Sept. 13, at the West Jefferson UMC. Dee Petersen has worked for over 37 years as a Registered Nurse and Educator and her program offered advice on how to be well through your body, mind and spirit.

Petersen began her work in the healing arts upon receiving a BSN Degree from UNC-Chapel Hill, and later a MA Degree from Appalachian State University. She participates as a personal success coach with the Total Succcess Institute in conjunction with her wellness coaching.

A cancer survivor since 1991, Petersen has become a student of alternative and complimentary approaches to health and wellness. According to Petersen, through her own healing process, she developed a deep awareness of the profound relationship between the body, mind and spirit in maintaining health and well-being.
She is the president of her own business, Great To Be Alive, which aims to inspire and assist to a balanced life. Petersen said, Great to Be Alive, guides a person through a wellness assessment focused on the whole person, identification of your priorities for change, development of your personalized wellness plan, use of energy balancing techniques to support achievement of desired actions, practice of 'success habits' for your well-being and evaluation of your results on a regular basis.

Petersen offers individual, one on one coaching and other services as well. For more information, on Dee Petersen and Great to Be Alive, click to www.greattobealivenc.com or call (336) 846-1171.

Several health wellness providers shared their ideas at the Day of Sharing Wellness.Beckie Ballard, an educational consultant, teaches a system of movement that integrates the brain, body and heart for ease of learning and living. Her educational background is a BA in English seminars, workshops and experience. Her interest in whole brain learning including brain gym exercises started when she was a beginning teacher in the Ashe County School System. Ballard has 1500 logged hours in Brain Based Learning. She has been a consultant for educational institutions including the University of Florida.

Ashe County native Dr. Cameron S. Current, Chiropractor and Fellow of Acupuncture, offers chiropractic adjustments and acupuncture for maintaining well-being as well as for treatment of specific conditions. Cameron graduated from Appalachian State University with a B.S.B.A. Degree. He received his D.C. From Life Chiropractic College where he graduated with honors in 1992. He also has a Fellowship from the International Academy of Medical Acupuncture. Cameron's father, Dr. R.W. Current started Current Chiropractic in 1959. For more information on Current Chiropractic click to www.currentchiro.com.

Michael Goopta, Accupuncturist, treats patients for pain and other ailments. Goopta moved from Delhi, India to California in 1983 as a graduate student in mechanical engineering.

Following graduation he started taking evening life sciences courses in psychology, sociology and biology while continuing his corporate job as an engineer. A strong interest lead Goopta to acupuncture school in 2004.

Goopta says acupuncture was a natural fit for him, a logical, cost-effective treatment to help those overcome many obstacles. For more information on Goopta, click to www.michaelgoopta.com.

Lundee Amos, Certified Laughter Leader and Advanced Practitioner with Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry talked about how to experience the benefits of laughter to your health and wellness. For more information on Amos and her services click to www.worldlaughtertour.com. You may also send an email with questions to sarahamos@earthlink.net.

Joyce Porter, Life Coach, offered emotional stress defusions to assist clients in removing stress held in the body that affects their well-being. Her educational background includes a BS in Science and a MA in social work. Porter said her purpose is to ignite the human spirit in expressing harmony, well-being and love. She uses science, spirituality and her experience to accomplish this. She has been a speaker all of her life and uses that to call people to the possibility they want for themselves. For more information, call (704) 560-9400.
Marjorie Shinkle, Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist andAshe County's only Nationally Certified Medical Massage Therapist, has been a practicing massage therapist since 1999. She has studied anatomy and physiology, evaluation techniques, manual therapy, neuromuscular therapy, therapeutic exercise and neuromuscular education. Shinkle said, the Ashe Massage Center is a dream for her. She explained that using a whole body approach she can identify the root cause of pain rather than simply treating symptoms. For more information, click to www.ashemassage.com.

David J. Speidel, Good as New Total Body Analysis Practitioner said he blends mystery and reality together to offer a Total Body Analysis by measuring the body's data fields at the cellular level against charged electromagnetic vials to see what body functions need balancing. His educational background is BA in History and Theology and graduate work in Business Management. He sees clients at The Healing House in Jefferson. To contact Speidel call (828) 294-3582.

Jette Terpner, Reconnection Healing Practitioner, said she is a born healer trained in Reconnection Healing which utilizes frequencies to allow for the healing of the body, mind and spirit. She talked to the group about healing through touch and frequencies. For more information on Jette Terpner or her services, click to wwwjetteterpner.com.