• instagram
  • facebook
  • Home

  • About

  • Services

  • Blog

  • ROOTed

    • Love your LIFE more...
  • Testimonials and Videos

  • Contact Dawn

  • More

    Use tab to navigate through the menu items.

    Recent Posts

    "Slow": The New Cuss Word.

    "Slow": The New Cuss Word.

    A Series of Poems for Prayers: #4 Teach me to Listen

    A Series of Poems for Prayers: #4 Teach me to Listen

    A Series of Poems for Prayers: #3 Come, Light! (a confession of sorts)

    A Series of Poems for Prayers: #3 Come, Light! (a confession of sorts)

    Archive

    • May 2022
    • April 2022
    • March 2022
    • February 2022
    • December 2021
    • October 2021
    • September 2021
    • August 2021
    • July 2021
    • May 2021
    • April 2021
    • March 2021
    • August 2020
    • June 2020
    • May 2020
    • April 2020
    • March 2020
    • January 2020
    • December 2019
    • October 2019
    • September 2019
    • August 2019
    • July 2019
    • June 2019
    • May 2019
    • April 2019
    • March 2019
    • February 2019
    • January 2019
    • December 2018
    • October 2018
    • July 2018
    • November 2017
    • August 2017
    • May 2017
    • March 2017
    • January 2017
    • December 2016
    • November 2016
    • October 2016
    • September 2016

    Tags

    • Advent
    • adventure
    • Aging
    • anxiety
    • Attachment
    • avoiders
    • beach
    • Being Contemplative
    • Being human
    • Boundaries
    • Burnout
    • business
    • Busyness
    • childhood
    • Chores
    • Christmas
    • church
    • comfort
    • Conflict
    • COVID-19
    • Culture
    • Daily Bread
    • delayed gratification
    • discipline
    • Dog
    • emotions
    • Family dinner
    • Fear
    • Forgiveness
    • Friendship
    • God with Us
    • God's Faithfulness
    • Grace
    • gratitude
    • Grief
    • Growth
    • Hope
    • human need
    • humanness
    • humility
    • incarnation
    • Intentionality
    • jesus
    • kindness
    • Learning to Listen
    • Lent
    • Lessons from a Goldendoodle
    • Life Coaching
    • life lessons
    • Loneliness
    • Marriage
    • Mid-Life
    • mystery
    • Nature
    • New Year
    • Parenting
    • Paying Attention
    • perfection
    • Personal Development
    • Poetry
    • Prayer
    • Reflections
    • Repentance
    • Sabbath
    • Seasons
    • Seeking
    • Self Reflection
    • Self-absorption
    • Self-care
    • self-denial
    • Sex
    • Social Media
    • Solitue
    • spirit
    • Spiritual guidance
    Access a Dose of PEACE in 10 Little Minutes?? Try it and see.

    Access a Dose of PEACE in 10 Little Minutes?? Try it and see.

    I have a friend who spends a month in the summer at the shore. She does it every year. Her kids come and go. Her mom comes a few times....
    Change: Can't [don't] Live Without It!

    Change: Can't [don't] Live Without It!

    I’ve always hated change. Control and comfort, now that’s my thing. But wow, resisting change has not served me well. Slowly, after...
    "My Teenager Makes Me Feel Crazy!" Session #2  Mini-video series: Navigating conflict

    "My Teenager Makes Me Feel Crazy!" Session #2 Mini-video series: Navigating conflict

    Conflict is a part of life. Knowing we will all experience it, we must be equipped to navigate these heated conversations with skill....
    No bread on the shelves? Look to the birds!

    No bread on the shelves? Look to the birds!

    I keep looking out the window at the wrens, robins, chickadees, and blue birds. Darting about everywhere; they are busy this morning....
    The Loneliness Epidemic: back to the basics of Friendship 101.

    The Loneliness Epidemic: back to the basics of Friendship 101.

    In March of 2018 Psychology Today featured a cover story on the topic of loneliness. “A problem of epidemic proportions,” they claim....
    You may hate the process, but who would you be without it? The Long Road is necessary.

    You may hate the process, but who would you be without it? The Long Road is necessary.

    My husband has been in the start-up world for a year now. One day the news is promising and hopeful while the next day we feel the...
    Need to get UNSTUCK? Here are 5 benefits to hiring a Life Coach--

    Need to get UNSTUCK? Here are 5 benefits to hiring a Life Coach--

    1. We learn the necessity of self-evaluation and reflection: This is one of the most consistent observations I have made over the last...
    Are you an avoider?? It's time to plow.

    Are you an avoider?? It's time to plow.

    Forgive me for so many weeks off from blogging! The Jersey Shore held me hostage... The right side of my brain is like an overgrown...
    4 Essentials: Raising a Well-Developed Child.

    4 Essentials: Raising a Well-Developed Child.

    Part one: Chores and Family Time That awful insecurity still rises up in me now and then. It's ugly. My mid-forties, how is this...
    I'm a pruned plant. I hate it and want it at the same time.

    I'm a pruned plant. I hate it and want it at the same time.

    There are seasons of life that take our breath away. I don’t mean in a wonderstruck or captivating way. They snatch up our attention, but...
    1
    2