About Us

I am

husband

and this year

my wife and I

will cel

brate our

8th

anniversary

Our r

elationship has been a

very

important part of

my personal and spiritual

growth.

We have two grown sons whom we cherish and

have also been

a critical

part of my

jou

rney.

I have always had a strong service ethic and worked in the public

health/mental

health /alcohol & drug field for over 30 years.

During

the

last

years

of my

public service carrier I was

responsible for developing and managing mental

health and/or

alcohol & drug systems of care.

Following my retirement from

public service in 2004 I began the formally establishment of the services that are

reflected in this web site.

I have

had the awareness,

since about the age of

that unknown spiritual

forces have guided me. I assumed it was “God” but

had no sense of a

relationship

outside of a retrospective awareness that my life’s

path did not seem

random or

accidental. I have always been successful by others

standards both in

my work as

a clinician and as a human services manger. One

of my gifts is the

ability to take

ideas and manifest them in the form of human

service programs

and services. I

am able to bring people together to forge a

common vision and

mobilize their

energy towards common goals. As a clinician I

had insight into my

client’s

emotional workings. Looking back I know that these

were expressions

of my

intuitive abilities. However, for much of my life these

abilities

were

masked by

an intellect and personal fears/doubts that kept me

shrouded from the

experience

of my spirit.

What I call my spiritual awakening started about

years ago when I was

introduced to the work of Caroline Myss

(resource link)

. Her work resonated

with me in a very profound way. I was raised Catholic but had abandoned much

of the teaching of the church in early adulthood, viewing organized religion as

oppressive and focused on the negative. Caroline’s work drew much on the

spiritual traditions of the Catholic Church as well as eastern traditions (which

had

always intrigued me) and gave me new perspectives on the nature of my

spirit,

spiritual laws, and how to understand my life experiences from a spiritual

perspective. Her work on sacred contracts was most profound and it was through

self-study on my own archetypes (with the help of her book “Sacred Contracts”)

that I came to the realization that the pain I felt in my life was of my own

making

. This awareness brought much healing and transformation for me

personally and in my relationship with my wife.

The next significant influence in my spiritual healing and transformation was the

best selling author and psychic Sonia Choquette, PhD

(

resource

link)

It is no

coincidence that I was introduced to Sonia when she was a guest speaker

Carol

Myss workshop. I was so impressed with Sonia that I took her one-day

workshop the next day. While Carolyn’s work mostly resonated with my higher

intellect, Sonia’s work opened m

e to the experience of

heart. I

went on to

tud

y and train

with Sonia and

completed

her

professional

Level I and II S

Sensory Certification program.

ifteen

years ago while my wife and I were in Arizona

at one of Sonia’s in

tensive

workshops

I had a mystical experience which awoke my intuitive a

ilities

and

brought to my awareness the Native American roots to my own sp

irituality. Upon

returning home I sought out and began

a year l

ong

mentor ship

with a spiritual

teacher and

medicine women, Michele Field

(

resource l

ink)

Michele helped m

exploring/developing

/understanding

my intuitive g

ifts, my relationship with my

spirit

guides

and

how to manage the n

energy I

was

experiencing

As my intuitive gifts began to more fully manifest

I became aware of a calling to

return to clinical work and more specifically a desire to help others in uncovering

their intuitive gifts and living their true purpose. My work with Michele

ultimately lead me to The Alchemy Institute of Healing Arts in Santa Rosa

California

(

resource link)

and

the Alchemy Institute in the Pyrenees, France

(

resource link)

where I completed 350 hours of course work/training and

achieved

my advanced certification as an Alchemical Hypnotherapist.

In 2005 I was introduced to A Course In Miracles and became an ardent student.

Along with a friend we started ACIM study group which continues to this day.

This path ultimately led me to completing course work from and ordination threw

Pathway of Light

whose

philosophy

and

curriculum

is based on ACIM.

While my teachers have brought me a wealth of knowledge and experience their

true blessing in my life has been the personal healing and spiritual

transformation they have guided me through. It is my deepest wish to be of

equal

service to others

along their

spiritual

path.

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Jim Peterson MSW, AH, OMC

Heart Directed Living
An Alchemical Process of
Personal Guidance & Healing.

“Lead into Gold - A Path of Spiritual Transformation”

“Something, more in
Jim's being than
anything he did, per se,
evoked a level of self-
honesty - between me
and me! - that was
revealing and
grounding. That
connection with
myself, along with his
gentle guidance and
encouragement
towards certain
practices of inquiry and
affirmation have moved
me along in my
healing/growing
process. He is a very
safe and sweet place to
be...” R. H.