Dee Petersen Biography 101 Coach 

Dee Petersen’s education background is in nursing, management, and adult education.  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 work experience has been 36 years in nursing where 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. 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 Petersen was born in 1946 and 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.”

As a result of participating in the supportive TSI community, Dee has produced the following very tangible results in her life: occupation  ~ launching a totally new career that is fed by her passion for service to others and opening her own business; physical ~ adhering to an aggressive wellness plan and achieving her ideal weight; financial ~ completing a total revision of  the family financials, decreasing current debt by $7000 and maintaining the commitment of no additional debt for the past 12 months; relationship ~ carrying all 4 of her significant family relationships to a new level through the application of new listening and responding skills; social ~ establishing new healthier friendships and contributing to her community through new volunteer efforts in the business arena; personal ~ facing her fear and literally climbing to the top of a mountain that she would not have been able to do before.