Dawn Quest

02/06/2025

This month's gift for Nurture subscribers. 💗☺

For when you feel pushed and pulled in every direction and need to remind yourself of who you are.

30/05/2025

I've decided to relaunch Nurture - but now with more content on substack, and you can find one of my first posts here:

I hope you can relate to this post - I love gardening and find a lot of crossover into my life in the form of what nature can teach us about slowing down, having patience and allowing ourselves to blossom!! 💗🌸🌷🪻

As with flowers, so with life...

19/07/2023

Whatever day you're having - why not end it feeling calm, uplifted and positively brimming with wellbeing and vitality?

Come along to one of my Energy Healing sessions and feel just that.

No woo woo, no magic - just a straightforward but powerful guided visualisation designed to instantly give your mind, body and soul a fantastic uplift.

**JUST FOR JULY - SPECIAL LIMITED TIME OFFER**

Energy Healing Sessions are HALF PRICE when you pay in advance in July.

PAY NOW, BOOK YOUR SPACE LATER.

1. Pay for as many sessions as you like (5, 10, 20!) and get 50% off in July.
2. Book your space whenever is convenient up to 1 hour before sessions starts.

Sessions are all via Zoom. Note: spaces are limited so advance booking is recommended.

Please note: If you're a Reset & Renew member, you have free access to all Energy Healing Sessions.

14/07/2023

I have something new to share with you. Find out more, on Instagram at 7pm

https://www.Instagram.com/dawnquestcoach

12/07/2023

I've just received this in the post. I can't see whether it's available throughout the UK or just specific areas - but you just need to type in your date of birth and name of medical practice to get started.

05/07/2023

Join the membership group with a difference.

"Reset & Renew has given me the tools, time and space to work on my goals for the year. Dawn's facilitation has been excellent. Highly recommend." Mark, London.

https://dawnquest.co.uk/reset-renew/

24/06/2023

✨✨Special offer ✨✨

Get my Wellbeing Meditation Bundle for just £5 - usual price £23.

Includes my complete Meditation audio catalogue with 12 audios to download or stream directly to your device, including my best selling meditations:

I am enough
I am safe
Gratitude
Breathe
Inner Calm
Feel Energised
Feel Balanced
Morning meditation
Evening meditation
Surrender and Let Go
No Filters
Mood Boost

Click below to get the Meditation Bundle now. Offer closes soon!

https://buy.stripe.com/00g5l119JfOH4hydR3

19/06/2023

There are two main issues going on when teens struggle with anxiety - something that I see time and again in my work with families.

There's the anxiety itself.

And then there's our response to it as parents.

When teens are anxious it can mean not going to school, or withdrawing from social groups, procrastinating over school work or escaping into things like video games and social media.

In more complex cases it can mean more hardwired patterns of anxiety - such as OCD, self harm and eating disorders.

All of these things are incredibly worrying.

And when we worry as parents, we start to do something called 'overfunctioning'.

In short, we try to fix everything.

And why wouldn't we?

It's heartbreaking to watch our children struggle.

It's frightening to think they're missing out on school and opportunities and what could be the best years of their lives.

So we try to accommodate their anxiety and make things easier for them.

Which works... until it doesn't.

Firstly, the more we try to do for our teens, the more resistant they become.

Getting up in the morning, getting dressed, having a shower, doing homework - all become emotional battles that often end in tears and frayed nerves.

Because... here's the thing, your teen does not want to let go of anxiety just yet. It's protecting them from situations that feel frightening.

The more you try to help them, the more they dig their heels in.

The more we do for our teens, the less they'll do for themselves.

And the less they do for themselves, the less confident they become in their own ability to cope.

Soon Mum and Dad become the people who always sort things out for them.

And that's not what we want if we want them to re-engage and start feeling happier, calmer and more confident.

I'll be teaching the fundamentals of over-functioning in my 5-day boot camp - Calmer Parenting of Anxious Teens - and how doing too much for your teen actually contributes to prolonging the anxiety.

More importantly, I'll be showing you how to stop the pattern of over-functioning - and the incredible transformation you'll experience in yourself and your teen that happens when you do.

I'd love you to join me - but hurry, registration closes on Tuesday 20th June

Spaces are limited so click below to find out more.

https://www.dawnquest.co.uk/the-calmer-parenting-boot-camp-registration/

08/06/2023

Heck knows it’s impossible to stay positive all the time. It’s also exhausting. We can allow ourselves the freedom of fully experiencing every emotion - up, down and in between - it’s all okay. That’s called being human.

But sometimes, expecting the worst, thinking negatively, shutting down positive feelings like hopes and dreams, becomes an unconscious habit. We get stuck in a rut.

So, just for today, check in and see what ‘channel’ your mind’s tuned into. And if you don’t like what you’re hearing, change it. Because you can.

30/05/2023

I hear so many people use age as an excuse and say “I’m too old to…” Never too old. Never too late.

We all experience fear and despair at some point in our lives. These two emotions are often seen as roadblocks, deterring us from achieving our dreams… | 998 comments on LinkedIn

19/05/2023

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Credit: SelfCare with Wall

16/05/2023

In 2017, my 12-yr old daughter developed severe and debilitating ear pain. The pain came in clusters and literally brought her to her knees, screaming in agony.

In the moment I felt absolutely powerless and useless. Nothing I said or did made any difference. I just had to sit with her until the pain subsided, which it always did... until the next time.

Over a span of 18 months we went from our local GP practice to the local hospital, to King's Hospital, and then a private paediatrician in London.

Finally, after 18 months, we were lucky enough to be seen by the UK's top neurosurgeon at Evelina Children's Hospital.

And we got a diagnosis: Geniculate and glossopharyngeal neuralgia. A rare condition with not much in the way of a guaranteed cure.

The neurosurgeon suggested strong pain relief and an approach of 'wait and see'. It was a condition my daughter might grow out of, he said. The alternative would be surgery to block a nerve that ran to her ear and jaw.

Although that didn't really move us closer to curing my daughter's ear pain, once we had the diagnosis things started to improve. Gradually, over the next year, the pain attacks subsided and my daughter recovered, just as the neurosurgeon said she would.

Why am I telling you this story?

Well... in my work with parents of teens with anxiety, I see that very same sense of powerless and helplessness that I felt, as they watch their children spiral into a frightening and seemingly bottomless pit of anxiety, worry and stress.

I know how my own nerves became frayed and paper thin, and how my emotional reserves were stretched to breaking point. But I also know, having gone through that experience with my daughter, that no one else could have done what I did. Not because I had any special powers or knew any special techniques at the time (this was before I trained as an RTT therapist).

It was simply because I was her mum. And that was enough.

Whatever your teen is going through, they need you. No one else can do what you're doing right now. But, they also need you to be mentally and physically at your best - to be strong for yourself as well as for them.

That's why it's important to get the support you need, to feel calm and balanced, to know that you're doing a good job, and be confident in your ability to cope with whatever your teen is going through.

And that's why I've created my Calmer Parenting of Anxious Teens boot camp to support parents and carers of pre-teens and teens with anxiety.

Over 5 days, I'll teach powerful and effective techniques to help you feel calmer, more confident and more balanced - even when things feel chaotic around you.

The boot camp starts next Monday, 22nd May, but I'm going to be offering two BONUS mini training sessions this week. Registration closes at midnight tonight and spaces are limited - so hurry to save your seat. Click below to find out more:
https://tinyurl.com/3dmbterc

(photos below: on the way to Evelina Children's Hospital - the day of my daughter's diagnosis)