Peter Williams: Just Live Life

Meet Peter Williams, an Australian-based international psychic medium, inspirational, motivational speaker, mentor, teacher and author of Searching Spirit. Peter has dedicated years to living his purpose and showing up in the world as a strong leader and inspirational influence within the spiritual world. He probably wouldn’t see himself that way, though. To Peter himself, he’s just a regular guy, ready to take on any challenge that comes his way and live the best version of himself.

He’s upbeat, fun-loving and charismatic. Peter has a passion for spirit and a very clear goal in mind – to help you reclaim the happiness you deserve and the abundant life you came here to live. And his most important message? Just fucking live life.

Kim: Peter, let’s start by asking: Who is Peter Williams, and what lights you up about being you?

Peter: Well, how long have you got Kim? [laughter]. As we both know, we think we are one thing and we are that one thing for a period of time. And then something else comes out of nowhere. The one thing that you and I have in common is the love of spirit. But what’s really fascinating is that in the last 12 to 18 months, my work has evolved quite significantly. I used to see myself as a medium and a platform demonstrator. And then, I was inspired to launch my membership site and to focus on spiritual mentoring and coaching. It has kind of come out of nowhere for me. I don’t know how to explain it. Being a mentor and coach has become my new purpose, as much as I love being connected with people and helping them connect with their loved ones. But one thing I’ve learnt from being a medium is that yes, we can help people during a reading, and we can help heal grief. But while we are alive, we are here to live life. So, throughout my journey, I have connected with past loved ones and people who are in the spirit world, and I also wanted to help the people who were still here.

The one constant message from spirit to my clients is: “Please keep living your life. It’s nice that you think of me. It’s nice that you hang on to me. But please, you’re still there. And there is more in front of you than you realize. We’re not gone; we’re still here. It’s just part of the process.

After having a good ten years of that going through my head, I think it finally got to the point where I just wanted to share that message with the world. So I started my membership site Pearls of Wisdom and I really got that knock on the head to say “You’ve got to do this.” So much so spirit broke my left foot, and I was just like: “Oh, okay.” I created the site in the space of two weeks. But now it’s evolved even further, which is awesome because now it’s about the inner power.

Spirit said: “We need you to teach people to tap into it, and it’s not so much tapping into spiritual ability, like psychic mediumship abilities. It is more like understanding your own personal abilities as a human being. The more that we understand that, the more enriched our lives are going to become.

So that’s where I am now. So as much as I am out there and still connecting with audiences in mediumship demonstrations, I’m very much trying to make them aware, and awaken them to the fact, that there is a little bit more we’re here to do in this moment. So we’ve got to make the most of it.

Kim: I love that you talk about the evolution of your work with spirit. Coming from that space where you’re serving and focusing on spirit, to then allowing your work to evolve. Did you question that? Did you feel you were letting spirit down by shifting your focus, even though it’s spirit-led?

Peter: Oh, absolutely. I can empathize with you on that, it’s a really hard one. I don’t think many people will be able to fully comprehend that transition. I’ve gone through that question of “Am I doing this right? What’s going to happen here?” But in essence, it’s the same process that we face in any kind of transition, regardless of whether we’re coming from a fully spirit-based work. I’ve now come to understand that it is still totally spiritual. I’m still with spirit 100%, and they’re still with me.

Kim: I agree, it’s about taking clients through a process. Not just offering a psychic or mediumship reading. They get what they need, but then let’s take them on a journey into healing their own life too. I think our services need to reflect that.

Peter: Yeah, that’s what’s happened. The biggest thing I found was, it’s all about perspective. I’m not taking away from the work that we do, or we’ve done. But it’s going deeper. There are a lot of people who are looking for that quick fix, that band-aid, and I think that’s very dangerous. It’s a beautiful fix but it’s a dangerous one. Our biggest currency is hope. But the thing is, I don’t want to just give them hope. I want to give them faith in themselves and the tools to find that faith. That’s a game-changer. Sometimes, people will use psychic sessions as a little bit of a spiritual bypass tool, and that’s why I am stepping out of that. I read the people that I know are understanding of it. I always say if I get them to a point where they don’t come back and see me, I’ve done a good
job.

Kim: What first motivated you to take that leap of faith and do the work that you do?

Peter: The life-altering moment was the earthquake in Japan back in 2011. My wife and I were living there at the time. What people don’t realize is that our house was only 60 kilometres away from the actual melting-down power plant. So radiation was a real threat. We had to move and leave everything behind. My wife was 37 weeks pregnant and we came back to Australia. We had no assistance, no help because she’s not Australian, and we had our future planned in Japan. We had everything set up over there, so we came back here and had absolutely nothing. We had family, but we couldn’t have a baby in the public health system because it was going to cost us, and the government wouldn’t help. But you know, the universe does provide. We were very lucky that we found a wonderful doctor, and he allowed us to have the baby in a private hospital.

What also led us was the thought: “Well, hang on, what are we going to do for coin? We’ve got to live; we’ve got to pay for things.” So that’s when I was “Okay I’ve got to make this work.” But it was about 18 months to 2 years later when that big defining choice came.

I was working for my brother at the time. He was going through an absolutely terrible situation with his work and had to let me go. It was at that point that I was starting to build myself up more in the spiritual world. I’d actually opened up my own shop and I’d been there for like four or five months. But then I lost this base income. The words of advice that I was given at the time were some of the best I ever received: “You’re going to spend time going for jobs, and changing your resume for jobs that you know you’re not going to get. If you just focus all that time and energy into your business, you’re going to be way ahead.” That really altered my thinking. But the other thing that changed the way I approach things is that even when you are playing it safe, you can still fail. I’ve seen it with my father. He worked for Ansett Australia for almost 27 years, and just like that the company lost everything. He didn’t know what to do with himself. That taught me that I could have the nine to five job but it could still disappear tomorrow. So I might as well have it happen on my own terms, and let it be my problem and my fault. The worst that’s going to happen is, it’s not going to work, so you just change it.

Kim: It really speaks to you taking control of your life. Do you feel that’s what you’re essentially teaching your clients, to take control of their life?

Peter: It’s making them aware. It’s like taking control yes, but it’s also like “Be aware of those patterns”. I say go and live your life, because you know what? I’m living life on my terms as much as I possibly can. What’s not mentioned is a lot are the issues and the struggles that I’ve had. Like my wife has had difficulty in adjusting here, because for the first four or five years it was struggle. It was hard on her. Then I remember she asked me one day, and I remember because I broke down. She asked “Why can’t we
have a family holiday?” And I’m just like “Because we’re literally rebuilding our life.” Even at that point I had a job, and it still wasn’t enough.

We’ve gone from: “That’s terrible we haven’t had a family holiday” to now where I’ve taken control and we can have multiple holidays a year. It’s not saying that we’re super-duper rich, it’s just that we make a constant choice to say “We want holidays to be a part of our life.” We sacrifice all the material stuff because we want memories, we want emotions, and we want time with our kids. It’s all about those choices, and understanding what we wanted. And taking control of it. That’s why it’s all about that inner power now. Awaken to that fact that you have some element of power. Be in alignment with yourself and what you truly believe.

Then all of a sudden, guess what? Life just starts to happen; you start to achieve stuff, even though it might come out of nowhere.

Kim: Peter, you show up 100% for spirit, you travel for shows, run your membership site, on top of seeing your private clients. How do you keep that balance of being of service, balancing your personal life, and having time for your family?

Peter: It’s been a conscious effort to maintain that balance. I love my work; I’ve got all my life rolled into one. I get to travel, I get to work, I get to talk, and I get to do all these wonderful things. I’ve got the freedom, but again I’ve made the choice and I’ve created that freedom. I make my own calendar, but the first thing that goes into my calendar is my holidays. That shows you your priorities, and that shows you how you get your balance back.

Kim: Do you take time out just for yourself?

Peter: Spirit work is very mental so sometimes it can get a bit much. So my break is I go fishing. It’s nature. I just focus purely on fishing, so it’s nice that’s my thing. We have the ability and the constant choice to create our life, and to me that’s a healthy balanced life.

Kim: I completely agree. Let’s talk about your book, Searching Spirit. It can be a big step to share a personal story. What was that journey like for you?

Peter: As you probably know, when you’re traveling in spirit circles you often get told, “Oh, you’re going to write a book.” And I’m thinking, “Oh my god, every time I get told this crap”, you know. But then something inside of me said, “No, I’ve got to get this done.” So I just realized I had to get out of my own way to do it. There are heaps of different ways you can go about it. I enlisted some help because I didn’t have the time. I had my own business to run, so I had some help getting it through the lines of publishing. But you still have to dig deep, and I think writing a book about your own life is the hardest. And if anything it was actually very therapeutic and healing. Because you don’t realize what you’ve actually been through until you start digging deeper. I think that’s why it’s harder to write your own memoir, because there are things there which maybe you don’t really want to necessarily revisit. But the good thing is that I had someone help me with prompts to bring it out. Once you allow yourself to say these things, it’s so healing, and you start to understand your truth. It’s taught me so many things and one of the biggest was about perspective and perspective of family. I come from a relatively large family. There are seven of us in total. It’s amazing
because when they all read the first draft they’re going, “Oh, that’s not really true, Peter”. I said, “Well, that’s the way I remember it happened.” It was so interesting, but I think it was hard at first because when they saw it on paper it shocked them. It’s not massively about my family, but even just those little things made them reflect on how they were in my life. They read it and realized that my thinking and my memory of what happened doesn’t match up to their memory.

This has actually helped me so much more with my spirit work. I now tell audiences this is not about you. This is about the spirit person, because their perspective is totally different from yours. You’re here wanting to hear certain things. But this is their chance to talk about how they see things, and how they’re watching you.

It taught me a lot about that. It also taught me how much I’ve actually survived. How much I’ve actually done. How much I’ve actually come through, and I’m still here and I’ve got a few more wrinkles for it. It’s a very interesting journey…

The book itself is my memoir. It’s about becoming that person who embraces spirit, and how having spirit in your life changes you. It’s not about being the medium; it’s about having that connection to spirit for yourself. And I think if anything, it’s just to inspire people.

Kim: I love that.

Peter: It’s like, “I can’t live your life for you, but I can give you some of the tools and show you how to find that yourself.” Living life, believe it or not, is creating a habit. It’s like a muscle. The more that you embrace it and the more that you do, the stronger it becomes. Then it becomes just like second nature.

Kim: If you were to go back in time 20 years and give yourself one piece of advice about your life path, what would help get you through the challenges you’ve faced?

Peter: I don’t know to be honest. I suppose patience would have been a big one. But it’s hard to say patience, because sometimes we don’t have tomorrow. I think if anything I would probably say “Take more opportunities.” I suppose I probably didn’t do enough of that. So if anything, it’d be more, “Find those opportunities, and take them when you can.”

Kim: That’s just beautiful. So, one last question, Peter. What is your fierce truth?

Peter: My biggest truth is just fucking live life, it’s just too short. I consider myself to be pretty upbeat. I do keep it relatively fun. The hard part is, and people don’t really realise, I’m still dealing with death and with grief. People who don’t do this work don’t understand how much we actually take on. How much we see, how much we feel. You do become a little bit desensitized to it somewhat, but it’s still there. Every time I do it, it reminds me of why I’m here, and this is why I’ve got to live life.