Hi, my name is Dawn, it’s fitting for me since I live to begin anew each day, each moment.

I decided to write and share my experiences with you in hopes that it might help you, or inspire you in your life goals, desires toward better health and happiness.

I’ll tell you a little bit about myself so you can get to know me and feel comfortable sharing your comments in posts should you feel the desire.

I live in New England, I love it here. I attended a vocational-technical high school where I studied cosmetology so after graduation I began my career and I continue to do hair part-time. In 2010-11, I attended nutritional health & life coaching school where I became certified and I am a practicing health/life coach as well.

While in high school I had a real emotional fight with myself when it came time to choose a major for the next three years [also, the rest of my life, so I believed]. I liked cosmetology enough but in all honesty I never picked it as an exploratory, I was placed in it because carpentry wasn’t available – I wanted to make furniture. The one exploratory that absolutely loved was culinary arts. Culinary and cosmetology were in the top two, I decided on cosmetology because I didn’t want to get stuck in a dining room of a restaurant and I didn’t want to get stuck working major holidays especially if I was in the dining room – this was back in 1979, in my experience, women in the kitchen were usually in their home kitchen. Not only did my 6 weeks of culinary experience in school inspire my love for what foods can do for you but cooking at home with my mother and grandmother was a regular thing for me and I loved it. Through the years of doing hair and raising my 2 boys I had the best of both worlds, I had a career I grew to love and I cooked like there was no tomorrow which resulted in my kids loving good food, fruits and vegetables included. My comfort with food and cooking brought me to my current career, I’m now a holistic health coach.

My short story begins here. Since moving to a new area of Massachusetts, attending holistic health & life coaching school and finding where I fit in, I have worked through and released emotional pain and abuse of my past.

My intention for this blog is to share my thoughts, inspire you to share yours, lose the weight I feel necessary, inspire you to lose along with me, and together find healing from all of the yesterdays, and hope and happiness for today and beyond. You may read a lot of I, me and my’s here but it’s not intended to be selfish. I welcome and encourage you to share your I, me and my’s here too.

If you would like to work with me one-on-one, contact me at everynewdawn@gmail.com

Visit my Initiate Wellness Coaching site for recipes and other helpful information.

I hope to walk your journey with you here and help you find your story along the path.

 While on Nantucket, MA, we rented my dream car.
The color is fantastic – best rental ever!