Dee Petersen lives in West Jefferson, North Carolina, USA. She was born in 1946. Dee is a Lead Coach for Total Success Institute (TSI) and a Wellness Consultant. Her work experience has been 37+ years as a Registered Nurse and Educator. She has been coordinator for a community college nursing program, a director of nursing for a local community hospital, the coordinator of a local hospice program and the practice manager for a physician practice. She began her work in the healing arts in 1968 upon receiving a BSN Degree from UNC Chapel Hill; and later received a MA Degree from Appalachian State University.
Her personal experience has been 13+ years as a cancer survivor during which time she has become a student of alternative/ complimentary approaches to health and wellness. 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. Currently, she is the president of her own multifaceted business, Great To Be Alive, the purpose of which is to inspire and assist others to a healthy balanced life.
Dee participates as a personal success coach for the Total Success Institute. In addition, she was hand picked by Bob Proctor (an internationally acclaimed best selling author, speaker, personal growth coach) as one of a select few to facilitate powerful personal growth programs on the principles of prosperity. She has used the principles of prosperity thinking in her own healing as well as her personal and financial life. Dee is also a certified Brain Gym® Instructor and Consultant and utilizes this modality to enhance her work with wellness clients.
Dee feels that she is transitioning to the 2nd third of her life. The first third involved a traditional nursing career, lots of volunteer work in the areas of cancer and terminal care/hospice, a personal experience with breast cancer in 1991, experience with three network marketing companies that market wellness products, a divorce after 11 years of marriage, a new marriage 24 years ago. Dee is a family person and enjoys a wonderful relationship with her husband, Walt, who has been a true blessing in her life, and her son’s family (three grandchildren). She enjoys the privilege of working out of her home office in the North Carolina mountains. For fun, she enjoys playing with their two amazing canines, nature walks in the mountains, rides on the Blue Ridge Parkway, and restful get-a-away weekends at B & Bs and special secluded places.
Dee is also committed to the well-being of her community. The primary focus of her volunteer work has been in the area of breast health education since 1994 when she joined the Southern Appalachian Leadership Initiative Against Cancer (SALIC) and started the Ashe County Women’s Cancer Support Group. In 1997, she received the Volunteer of the Year Award in Ashe County for her work in this area. Prior to establishing her own wellness business, Dee was employed as the Project Manager for the Blue Ridge Cancer Coalition, a five-county coalition with the purpose of “saving lives through cancer education and prevention”. Dee is involved actively in the CARE (Christians Actively Reaching Everyone) ministry of her church. She is a recent graduate of the Ashe County Leadership Challenge and a member of the newly-formed business group, Women In Networking (WIN), the mission of which is to support and empower working women in our community.
Dee’s goals for the future are to focus totally in the present moment as she consistently works toward financial independence through the expansion of her Great To Be Alive business. This will allow her to focus her energies on her major goal of facilitating a “center for health and well-being” in the area where she lives.
TSI has been transformational for Dee. In her own words: “I feel truly alive and engaged in living ‘on purpose’ as a result of the work I have done in the TSI classes. I have emerged from this work truly a new human being after uncovering and discovering how I have held myself back from becoming the person that I was created to be. I value myself for what I have to offer and I am able to take calm focused action toward my intentions for my life – rather than sinking into the immobilization of overwhelm as I had previously done.”
“I took TSI Basic 101 in February of 2004 and the Intermediate 201 in the Spring of 2004 followed by the Advanced 301 course in the Summer of that year. I learned about TSI from Joyce Porter. Cliff Stockamp was my coach in all three of the TSI courses. He was assisted by Laurel Stockamp in my Basic 101 Course. The skill and effectiveness of these TSI coaches is evident in the results described below.
I rate my experience with TSI a “10” based on the results that I have created. TSI is the most powerful personal development program I have ever experienced in the way of results seen as actual positive changes in my life. I have been studying personal growth and development for over two decades and have aspired to be a personal growth facilitator and even received certification for the same. I received more in 6 class hours with TSI than in any previous endeavor. I learned that personal growth has everything to do with a transformation in the actions that I take and not with what I know in my head and discuss confidently with others”.
As a result of participating in the supportive TSI community, Dee has produced the following very tangible results in her life:
“I want to share the changes that have occurred in my life as a result of being fully engaged in this program:
Career: I totally transformed my career and left my corporate JOB June 30, 2004, to pursue my 4-year-old dream and start my own business in wellness consulting and coaching. I decided to pursue the coaching track with TSI and fulfilled the dream of becoming a Lead Coach in May of 2005.
Financial: I completely revised my family financials, established a system for monthly monitoring and identified creative ways of decreasing expenses in order to eliminate debt from our financial picture.
Family: With TSI, I have developed increased self esteem and self respect and have increased integrity in my relationships with family and friends. My husband describes me as having more self confidence in my abilities and taking actions that I would not take before. I have taken all four of my significant family relationship to a new level of sharing and trust – my husband, mother, sister, son and his family.
Social: I have found the courage to step up and tell the truth with compassion in challenging situations. I have established new healthier friendships and contributed to my community through new volunteer efforts in the business arena and in the area of wellness education.
Physical: I have adhered to an aggressive wellness plan and achieved my ideal weight and set an example for my wellness clients by maintaining my health and well being through all of the changes I have made.
Personal: I faced my fear and literally climbed to the top of a mountain that I would not have had the courage to do before”.
What works for Dee is, life long learning and work on personal improvement, on-going development of communication skills – asking, listening and responding to the needs of herself and others and having a team of supportive people that encourage and hold her accountable for her actions. She has become a permanent part of the TSI coaching community in order to ensure her continued growth and change and to provide value to others. Dee welcomes new TSI clients to an exciting journey and highly recommends the process to anyone who chooses to give themselves the gift of development, self awareness, growth, change and RESULTS in the key areas of their life – with TSI, not growing is not an option!
“I highly recommend this course of study to anyone who wants to give themselves the gift of development, self awareness, GROWTH and CHANGE in key areas of their life”.
