Dawning Phoenix, LLC

04/29/2025

For a conversation about relationships, meaning, and human connection as experienced through art & film, Director Dawn M. Echols, M.S., L.P.C was pleased to be a guest of film critic, Brian Skutle on his podcast, Sonic Cinema. Feel free to listen here: https://sonic-cinema.com/wordpress/2025/04/episode-167-tombstone-and-friendship

It’s interesting how this episode lined up with events around it. My guest and I had been planning for this episode for months, and we happened to have time for it shortly after one of its stars passed away. My guest is a first-timer to the podcast, my dear friend Dawn Echols, and the subject is G...

04/09/2025

Thoroughly enjoyed being a guest again with Dr. Bill Lampton - Communication Consultant and Speech Coach. Listen here:

Counselor Dawn Echols explains why people in our "do it yourself" age rely on counselors--sometimes on an extended basis.. https://bizcommunicationguy.com ta...

12/31/2024

Goal setting:

Events and rituals help us focus, adjust, adapt, and move forward in our lives. Instead of New Year’s Resolutions (which can be very good things), I suggest goal setting, using every 3 months as benchmarks. Effective goal setting is specific, concrete, and time limited. Set some goals for your yea...

12/26/2024

Happy Hanukkah!

12/26/2024

Enjoy celebrating Kwanzaa!

12/15/2024

Focus on peace, joy and warmth, regardless of your holiday tradition:

In recent years, the annual holiday season, historically called Christmas, has become a political, social, and cultural debate within the United States. Different sides of the argument hotly debate the appropriateness of certain words, symbols, figures, and traditions. Often, when “Merry Christmas...

12/08/2024

A daily gratitude habit can be both a mindful exercise and a healthy perspective technique. Read more here:

Gratitude: As Thanksgiving approaches, we often hear the word “gratitude”. Many of us have a lot for which we are thankful. Sometimes, during historically traditional holidays, people experience sadness and have difficulty with expressing or experiencing gratitude, because holidays bring back me...

11/21/2024

With the approach of the holidays, stress often increases, even when we have positive things going on. Check out some thoughts about family from owner Dawn M. Echols, M.S., L.P.C blog "Therapist's Corner" & watch for more posts about stress, holidays, & grief in the next month or so:

Does it evoke positive emotions, negative feelings, or a mix of contradictory reactions? Family is about attachment; emotional attachment to other people. Family can mean many things. It is the elemental social unit of human beings. Family, in a basic sense, generally begins with the biological conn...