Dawson Helps To Promote Faith, Hope And Healing
By Nicholette Carlson
InkFreeNews
Faith, healing and helping other women are three objectives in Rebecca Dawson’s daily life. After graduating from Grace College, where she met her husband, Chad, she focused on both counseling and teaching through Warsaw’s Heartline and in Wawasee schools.
Once she took a break to raise her three sons, she continued with some part-time counseling through her church and Grace College. However, in September, she launched her own faith-based counseling service called Simply Becoming geared specifically for adolescent and adult women.
“Simply Becoming is really my heart more than anything,” Dawson emphasized. “Really my joy.” She helps women work through fear and anxiety as well as helping them to realize and accept who they are. Sometimes she helps women work through difficult places in their life and sometimes she just helps them on their journey to becoming who they are.
The idea to start her own counseling services came while she and her husband were working remotely in Florida with their sons. The couple already had their own self-publishing company, which they had used for Dawson’s two books — one for mothers to be and preventing postpartum depression and another about impulsive behavior in children. She admitted she had kicked around the idea of starting her own business and an entrepreneur friend finally encouraged her to do it for herself. “I’m made for this,” she confessed.
In her counseling, Dawson prefers to be up front and honest with the women she works with, admitting she cannot heal them, but will work with them on their “joy journey” as they work toward intentional healing. It is her belief if people get help for a broken bone, why should they not also get help for a broken heart? She also has a prayer team for both her and her clients as they go through their journey.
Hoping for a release in January or February, Dawson also is planning to host an online course covering fear and anxiety. She sees these as frequent issues, which can also lead to identity issues. She stated her goal in her work and with this course is, “I try to bring back hope to people and remind them of that.”
Dawson, Chad and their sons, Jackson, Jeremiah and Cole, enjoy doing family activities together including traveling, sports and chess. Together the couple has remodeled six houses, living in four of them, and built the house in Warsaw in which the family currently resides. While she loves working with women in her counseling, she believes she was made for adventure and loves being a “boy mom.”
While she has participated in a variety of volunteer opportunities through their church, Warsaw Community Church, recently she is just participating on the prayer team. She has spoken on various podcasts and, in November, she spoke during three sessions at a women’s retreat in Goshen.
Dawson describes herself as a “craver of quiet and a cheerleader at heart.” She enjoys getting to know and connecting with people, as well as providing encouragement. However, she admitted, “when I have a moment, I like to quiet down and read.”
For more information about Dawson’s counseling methods, visit www.blueroompublications.com, where she also offers free 20 minute discovery sessions.