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2026 CONFERENCE
From Fear to Flourish

Ben Edwards - I was born and raised in Belton, Texas. I grew up watching both of my granddads practice “old school” country doctoring. They were general practitioners who might be found doing anything from delivering a baby, to amputating a leg, to sitting for an entire hour counseling a crying patient. Early on, I knew that I wanted to be that kind of doctor, one who took care of the entire family from cradle to grave. I wanted to work with the whole body and the whole family.

I received my undergraduate degree from Baylor University, and later graduated from UT-Houston Medical School. Then my wife, Jamie, and I moved to Waco to complete my training at the Waco Family Practice Residency Program where I was Chief Resident. After graduation, the Lord directed us to West Texas and the Garza County Health Clinic in Post, TX.

Then, I had a divine appointment that would change the course of my life.  Through witnessing an “incurable” disease in my nurse practitioner actually be fully reversed, I was introduced to an area of medicine I had never been taught.  It was time for me to move on to what the Lord designed me to be - a physician who treats the whole patient - mind, body, and spirit.

Corey Dunn is a second-generation homeschooling mama of four. While her real food journey started in her childhood, it didn’t take hold until her second born was healed from serious infant eczema in less than a week as the result of a simple dietary change. An avid home cook and baker, Corey started sharing her health and kitchen journey on her blog, podcast, and Instagram with the hope of making real, healing, and nutrient-dense food practical and accessible for the everyday modern mom. She lucked into marrying her childhood crush and now lives in Coastal Georgia on a newly created family homestead where things are accomplished with pure tenacity and lots of googling. 

Chelsea Blackbird, known as The Christian Nutritionist, is a Christian Health Practitioner, host of The Christian Health Club Podcast, and co-founder of The School of Christian Health & Nutrition. Through her teaching, Chelsea bridges modern health science with a biblical worldview-helping women understand metabolism, energy, hormones, and healing through the lens of stewardship and faith. Chelsea is board-certified in applied quantum biology, a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, and the creator of programs including Feast 2 Fast® and The Genesis Prescription®. She lives in West Texas with her husband and three children.

Dr. Rebecca Edwards is the owner of Grove Dental in Oxford, MS. With over 25 years of experience, Dr. Edwards specializes in airway-focused biological dentistry and emphasizes holistic approaches to dental care, focusing on the connection between oral health and overall well-being. She loves to learn and recently completed an advanced maxi-residency in open wound healing. 

Bob Hamp is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Co-Owner with his wife, Polly, of Think Differently Academy. His life message has been helping individuals discover the Freedom for which they were both created and redeemed. Bob is a sought after speaker and author, with a focus on helping people change thought-process in order to change their lives. His approach combines Biblical foundations, elements of neuroscience and quantum physics, as well as communication and change theory. With three decades of private practice and years of involvement in ministry development Bob's work is both potent and practical.

Kelly Love is the co-founder of Branch Basics, a wellness and lifestyle brand creating cleaning products that prioritize human health. Raised on the standard American diet and surrounded by conventional household products, Kelly didn’t experience the impact of reducing everyday toxins until her early twenties. After making simple changes in her home and daily routine, many of the “normal” issues she had dealt with for years — dry and itchy eyes, painful menstrual cramps, joint and muscle pain, and even body odor — disappeared. Motivated by that transformation, Kelly co-founded Branch Basics to help others create healthier homes and experience the power of pure as well. She lives in Jackson, Mississippi, with her husband and four children, and continues to educate on practical, accessible wellness.

Germaine Benoit is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Christian Health Practitioner passionate about teaching you how real food can heal and nourish your body. When you feel good, your whole outlook on life changes.
Using a food-first approach for inside-out healing, she addresses the foundations of health: proper digestion, blood sugar regulation, vitamin and mineral balance, gut health, and lifestyle changes. When these foundations are in place, the body can naturally begin to turn back on, leading to improved hormones, increased energy, a robust immune system, and optimal gut health. 
She is a graduate of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy Association, and The Christian Health Practitioner Program. 

Dr. Amari Kimble DC, MS, CCSP is an accomplished and skilled Chiropractor from Memphis, TN. Her desire to be a chiropractor developed during her undergraduate internship with the chiropractor for the Mississippi State football team. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from Mississippi State University, and went on to complete her Doctorate of Chiropractic and Masters of Sports Science and Rehabilitation at Logan University in St. Louis, MO. From there she worked with the Chiropractor for the New York Giants, and obtained her Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician (CCSP) certification. Soon after she completed the Diplomat Acupuncture program at Logan University. In addition to treating her patients, Dr. Kimble is a professor at Baptist Health Sciences University and an assistant track coach at Hutchison school for girls. Dr. Kimble has a holistic approach to health. Her vision for her patients is to help them achieve and maintain a healthy active lifestyle and have fun with the process. In her free time she enjoys running, playing tennis and salsa dancing.

 Annette  Reeder, known as 'The Biblical Nutritionist', is a Christian author, speaker, and health coach. With a background in nutrition and biblical studies, she teaches how to achieve physical and spiritual wellness through principles found in the Bible. Her mission centers on helping individuals honor God with their bodies by making informed, scripture-aligned health choices. She is passionate about leading people through God's Word to see what He has to say about our health.

For years Anne Buck has felt called to live out 2 Corinthians 1:4 by “comforting others in their troubles with the same comfort she has received.” 
 
With God’s help, Anne found freedom, forgiveness and an ability to thrive after years of turmoil from sustained childhood chaos and trauma. She is a 17-year stage 4 breast cancer survivor and also navigates the many challenges and complexities of parenting a child in recovery from opioid addiction. 
 
Anne is deeply passionate about helping others find joy through Jesus while they battle physical, spiritual and emotional issues. Prior to moving back to Oxford in 2024, Anne lived in Columbia, SC and Dallas, TX, where she led workshops and was a frequent speaker at churches, ministries, prisons, businesses and health events. 
 
Today Anne continues to lead workshops on sprouting and is a caregiver for two Oxford families. In her spare time, she makes herself available to meet and pray with anyone experiencing fear, hopelessness and despair.
 

Sue Becker is a gifted speaker and teacher, with a passion to share principles of healthy living in an encouraging way.  She is the co-owner of The Bread Beckers and founder of the ministry, Real Bread Outreach, all dedicated to promoting whole grain nutrition. Sue has a degree in Food Science from the University of Georgia and is the author of The Essential Home Ground Flour Book. For more than 30 years, Sue has researched the relationship between the common diseases that plague most Americans and the processed food, particularly bread,  that most people consume every day.  Her “discoveries” are both Biblically and scientifically sound and her teaching has changed the lives of countless families.  Sue and her husband Brad, live in Canton, GA and have 9 children and 15 grandchildren, so far. Through her teaching, countless families have found improved health.

Christine Muldoon is a functional nutritional therapy practitioner and food educator for families. Her focus is to empower caregivers to shift their mindsets and inspire intentionality and consciousness in parenting and feeding their littles. She is the creator and founder of Nourish the Littles, an online community that strives to nourish littles with real food and real connection. Her platform offers two online courses to guide caregivers on their health journeys with their families: Real Food + Real Families and Nurtured Foundations. In addition, she is the co-host of the popular podcast: Modern Ancestral Mamas. She also serves as a Weston A. Price Foundation co-chapter leader in the Dallas metroplex area. Christine resides in Texas with her husband and three children where they fill their days with delicious, nutrient dense meals, messy emotions, play and lots of love.

Erin Kerry is an integrative health coach, functional nutritionist, and author of the book Live Beyond Your Label. She is the host of the podcast Sparking Wholeness and the owner of the coaching company Sparking Wholeness. As a survivor of mental illness, Erin knows firsthand how suffering from a chronic illness can infiltrate every area of life. By the age of eighteen, she was given the labels PTSD, depression, and bipolar disorder. She became pregnant at twenty-two, after a very self-destructive phase of her mental health journey, marked by mania, alcohol, and poor medication management. Today, she is living beyond her labels and is symptom-free. Through her story and her integrative nutrition training, Erin empowers others to be their own health advocates so they don't have to be limited by a label or diagnosis. She is a regular contributor to online publications on the topic of mental health and wellness. Aside from coaching hundreds of individuals, she frequently speaks to groups and businesses. She and her pastor-turned-counselor husband, Richard, both work at Living Well Holistic Counseling and Wellness Center in Tyler, Texas. They have three children: Isabel, Roman, and Rhett.

Leré Robinson is a nationally recognized nutritional consultant, speaker, author, and founder of Alive Again LLC where she helps people rediscover health through real food and balanced living. With almost 30 years of experience, Leré delivers engaging wellness talks, corporate presentations, and cooking experiences that move audiences beyond diets toward sustainable, whole-food lifestyles. 

Leré’s work is rooted in her faith, and she is passionate about sharing the love of Christ through the practical, life-giving vehicle of health and wellness.

Polly Hamp is a Licensed NLP Master Practitioner, Trauma Recovery Coach, author, and speaker who grew up in a chaotic environment marked by abuse and dysfunction. Like many women, she battled body image issues and tried to control her weight through diets and self-criticism—only to discover that body hate never led to healing.

At a turning point in her journey, Polly chose to love her body at every size and began learning what true self-care really meant—mind, body, and spirit. This transformation inspired her to create TDAH! (Think Differently About Health!), a framework to help others live whole, connected, and free.

Polly and her husband, Bob, co-founded Think Differently Academy and Counseling. They live in North Texas with their two corgis and a blended family of six kids and seven grandkids.

Allen Williams is a 6th generation family farmer and founding partner of Libertas Land and Tall Grass Grazing.  He also is an original founding member of Understanding Ag, the Soil Health Academy and Regenified. He has consulted with thousands of farmers and ranchers in all 50 U.S. states and 45+ other countries, on operations ranging from a few acres to over 2 million acres.
He is a “recovering academic”, having served 15 years on the faculty at Louisiana Tech University and Mississippi State University. He has authored more than 400 scientific and popular press articles, and is an invited speaker at regional, national, and international conferences and symposia.
He has been featured in the Carbon Nation film series, "Soil Carbon Cowboys", the Roots So Deep documentary series (Roots So Deep Documentary | Regenerative Farming And Climate), World Without Cows (Home - World Without Cows), Rethink Meat Docuseries, the Dr. Oz show, ABC Food Forecast News, A Regenerative Secret, the Farmer’s Footprint film series, the Sacred Cow film series, and TedX Boston (First, heal the soil | Allen Williams | TEDxBoston (youtube.com). He co-authored a book with Teddy Gentry, “Before You Have A Cow”. Allen is a regular contributor to several leading industry publications.  

Bria Alston is a holistic esthetician, mentor, and educator with over a decade of experience supporting healing of the body, mind, spirit and skin. She is trained in Inner Healing and Deliverance Ministry through the leading of the Holy Spirit and holds a certification in Integrated Life Health.

Bria is a wife to her husband John and a mother of two daughters. She is passionate about helping others experience holistic healing through knowledge and revelation found in Christ and His Word—living out the abundant life made available through salvation in Jesus. Her heart is to see individuals walk in purpose, alignment, and freedom, bearing the fruits of the Holy Spirit and operating in the authority God has given them.

Kristen Braasch is a pelvic health physical therapist and the founder of Oxford Pelvic Health, a boutique pelvic floor PT practice in Oxford, Mississippi. She created OPH to offer women a warm, unhurried space for whole-person care, where science and practical tools meet the realities of everyday life. Kristen helps women understand their pelvic floor with clarity and confidence, whether they’re navigating symptoms, movement, pregnancy, or menopause. Her work also emphasizes the nervous system and the mind-body connection, equipping women with strategies to feel safer, steadier, and more at home in their bodies. Through education that’s both evidence-based and deeply approachable, Kristen is passionate about helping women feel restored, equipped, and embodied in their wellness journey.

Andrea Mangrum is a board-certified natural wellness practitioner who specializes in functional blood work analysis. Rooted in her Christian faith and her own healing journey after years of unexplained illness following mold exposure in college, Andrea discovered that “normal” labs do not always mean optimal health. Through learning to interpret blood work from a functional lens, she uncovered root causes that had long been missed and finally experienced true healing. Today, she helps others gain clarity and restoration by combining faith and a deeper understanding of the body God designed.