November DOTK

God used Dawn’s personal transformation to demonstrate the call he had placed on her life . . . Helping women regain health, strength, and self esteem.

At one time, Dawn’s mother was a healthy and vital woman who served God faithfully ministering to prisoners in jail until she became a prisoner herself of Alzheimer’s disease. Dawn took over the care of her mother and for ten years, made 10 trips a week to her mother’s home in the country. At the same time that she was responsible for bathing, dressing and feeding her mother, Dawn juggled her own family and career.

Dawn says, “I was watching my mother deteriorate both mentally and physically, and watching myself do the same. I tried to maintain my own health in order to meet her needs, but I was only doing a hit-and-miss job. I was just guessing, doing barely enough to slow down my own weight gain, muscle loss and mental fatigue. I desperately needed help.”

Then this headline out of a magazine got her attention: This is the youngest you will ever look and probably the healthiest you will ever feel for the rest of your life unless you decide to do something about it.

She realized that she couldn’t take care of her mother if she couldn’t even take care of herself. Dawn was “nickel and diming” her life away.

Dawn purchased a book called Body for Life and took up its challenge. Since then, Dawn has experienced a metamorphosis, both physically and mentally. Now she teaches other women how they can do the same through a program she developed called Body Defined. (See the DOTK “Links” page.)

Dawn’s testimony to all of us is this: you can not pour from an empty vessel. We are blessed to be a blessing to others, but first we have to stop long enough to listen to God and find out what He wants us to do for ourselves.