Earning The Light: A Friendship That Walked Me Back Home

Brunch with Pete is always time well spent.

There are some friendships that travel with you across lifetimes.

This is one of them.

I first met Pete in 2013 when I took Level One Quantum Shamanic Reiki with him - long before I trusted this work, long before I understood consciousness, and long before I trusted myself. It was a tiny glimpse into a new world, a crack in the door of awareness.

At the time, I didn’t know who he truly was, nor was I ready to integrate the wisdom or practices I was being offered. So I set it aside and continued down my familiar road of suffering and self-destruction.

It wasn’t until my world completely collapsed - until “last resort” catapulted me into healing - that I found myself back in his path.

I didn’t understand why then. Honestly, I didn’t believe it would work. Why would it? Nothing else ever had longterm.

Fast forward eleven years…and here I am.

The difference is almost indescribable.

But wow - did the road to get here ever suck. It was painful. Brutal. Relentless.

I remember sitting in Pete’s office early in my healing journey and asking him, with complete honesty,

“Is there a journey or something you can do to shut this off? To stop the process? It’s too hard. I don’t want to do it anymore.”

Without hesitation, he said, no.

And you know what?

The warrior in me grew stronger.

The courage I carried - sometimes by the thinnest thread - kept me moving through the dark days. I kept fighting for the better parts of myself. And eventually, the scale tipped. I was no longer healing…I was remembering.

I reached a place where I didn’t just do the work or practice the ceremonies - I became the work and the ceremonies.

The intuitive visionary.

The dreamer’s dreamer.

The healer by passion and by nature.

Those parts of me were never gone - just buried under layers of illusion, limitation, self-doubt, and self-hatred.

Today, I am fully me.

Pete didn’t do this for me.

I had to pick up the sword.

I had to walk through the darkness.

I had to face the dragons myself.

His role - as all true shamans and medicine people should be - was to teach me how, and more importantly, to remind me how capable I already was.

Reading his newly published book Red Rain: A Soul Shattered is a powerful glimpse into his world - his journey through darkness, his own remembering, and the honoring of his healing along the way. It is hope in action. Proof that healing is possible.

If you’re curious, start there.

And if you feel the pull to dive deeper - to remember who you are, to release suffering and self-destructive patterns - you may want to consider his upcoming two-year Earning the Light program.

The medicines.

The deeper understanding of humanity.

The tools that give context to pain, resilience, and the human condition.

Whether you’re a massage therapist, fitness instructor, physician, psychologist, actor, or real estate agent (all of whom I’ve met as students in his work), you will come away with a deeper understanding of yourself, your capacity to heal, and your path toward inner harmony and peace.

And honestly…

In a world carrying this much darkness and pain - who doesn’t need that?

Thank you, Pete.

I love you dearly.

I am endlessly grateful to be walking this road alongside you.

💛