Dawn M. Rivers

Dawn M. Rivers Go from physically & emotionally stressed/tired/overwhelmed to being happy, awakened, & feeling free!

09/22/2026

These women filled my heart, soul and spirit today. I’m eternally grateful for their friendship.

09/22/2026

A Dawntember first: 🌲🌲🌲

My children gifted me a forest bathing experience for my birthday, and it was one of those gifts I didn’t know I needed. 🌲

Forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku, is the practice of slowing down and intentionally experiencing nature through your senses. No hiking goal. No miles to conquer. No productivity required. Just noticing, breathing, listening, feeling and being.

And apparently, I needed some BEING.

I could feel myself relax. My stress and anxiety softened. My mind got quieter, but somehow my creativity got louder. I felt connected to nature, to myself, and to the moment I was actually in.

There was something beautiful about beginning another year of my life this way.

Not rushing toward what’s next.

Just being here.

This was a beautiful birthday gift. 💗🌿

Best day of the YEAR!!
09/22/2026

Best day of the YEAR!!

You can love the people who taught you something and still decide you don’t want to carry it anymore.That’s an important...
09/19/2026

You can love the people who taught you something and still decide you don’t want to carry it anymore.

That’s an important distinction in You Get What You Get.

We can talk about the patterns we inherited without turning the people we inherited them from into villains.

Maybe you learned that being a good woman meant taking care of everybody else first.

Maybe success meant achievement at all costs.

Maybe keeping the peace meant keeping your mouth shut.

Maybe strength meant never needing anybody.

Maybe you learned something completely different.

The point isn’t blame.

The point is awareness.

Because once I can see a pattern, I get to ask:

Does this still belong in my life?

Is this actually what I believe?

What has this pattern given me?

And what is it costing me now?

Then comes the part I’m always talking about:

What am I going to DO with what I know?

Today I’m preparing for a family discussion of You Get What You Get, which feels particularly meaningful.

Because we’ll be talking about patterns, identity and choices with some of the very people who share pieces of my story.

And maybe that’s part of breaking cycles too.

Not pretending the past didn’t happen.

Not blaming everybody for it.

But becoming aware enough to decide what comes with us next.

📖 You Get What You Get is available now. Comment BOOK and I’ll send you the link.

09/16/2026

Today was a good day.

Not because something HUGE happened.

Because I looked around and realized how many things that were once ideas are now actually happening.

Saturday’s family book event is ready.

Monday in Long Beach is finalized with some of the women who supported You Get What You Get before it was released.

Next week’s Books & Banter at Soul Yoga OHC is planned.

Three library events and Lit Cleveland are on the books, with more conversations happening.

Then today I walked into Bear Soul Studio & Rock Shop in Lakewood to start another one.

The cashier looked at me and said, “Wait a minute…is this you?”

She was pointing to MY CARD, still pinned to their wall from when I stopped in months ago. 😂

And today, I left a copy of You Get What You Get for the owners to read.

Another seed planted.

We spend so much time looking for BIG evidence that something is working that we can miss the smaller evidence right in front of us.

The email that gets answered.

The person who remembers you.

The card that’s still on the wall.

The book you leave behind.

The idea that finally has a date on the calendar.

This is the long game.

Planting seeds. Following up. Having conversations. Continuing even when you can’t see what every seed will become.

Today, I could see some of mine.

And yeah…

Today was a good day. 💗

09/16/2026

Yesterday, I met my friend RoseAda at her coworking space because I needed to print some things for my family book event on Saturday.

I had the files. I had the plan.

I did NOT have the paper. 😂

So we talked instead.

Business. Strategy. The long game. What we’re creating. And what it looks like to be honest when you’re still in the cocoon and everything isn’t shiny, finished or figured out yet.

Rose and I have known each other for about ten years. We’re both Virgos, although she’s a TRIPLE Virgo, so clearly she wins. 😂

And over those ten years, we’ve both lived some LIFE.

We’ve had personal challenges. Business challenges. Reinventions. Things that worked and things that absolutely did not.

But yesterday reminded me that creating new cycles isn’t only about what you stop doing.

It’s also about what you create in its place.

New conversations.
New relationships.
New ways of being supported.

People you can dream and strategize with, tell the truth to AND take ridiculous pictures with five minutes later.

That’s part of what I explore in You Get What You Get.

Awareness helps us recognize the patterns and cycles we’ve inherited, learned or repeated.

Then we get to choose what happens next.

Sometimes the new cycle is community. ❤️

And speaking of You Get What You Get, Rose is leaving for vacation and informed me she has TWO priorities for her cruise:

1. Take full advantage of that all-inclusive experience.
2. Read my book. 😂

Ten years of friendship and she understands the assignment.

Now I just need to remember the paper.

09/15/2026

Okay, let me tell you what you actually GET when you join Dawntember. 💝

I’ve told you about the birthday freebies, the 42 Things list, My Yellow Summer and 14 years of treating September like my Personal New Year.

But I realized I may not have been clear enough about what Dawntember: Celebrate Your Identity actually IS.

It’s a 30-day Personal New Year experience designed to help you get curious about who you are now, celebrate the woman you’ve already become and make more conscious choices about what you want next.

And no, you do not need another enormous course sitting in a portal making you feel guilty because you’re still on Module 2. 😂

Dawntember is intentionally light and doable.

Over 30 days, we move through five parts:

AWAKEN: Notice what’s true now, including your patterns, preferences and desires.

AFFIRM: Pay attention to the language you use about yourself and what you want to believe and claim.

ALIGN: Look at whether your choices, routines and everyday life still fit the woman you are now.

ACT: Take what you’re discovering out of the journal and practice it in real life.

CELEBRATE: Notice the evidence, honor your growth and celebrate who you already are.
You’ll get short lessons, reflection prompts, Omwork, practices, meditations and playful experiments, plus two live sessions with me where we can talk about what you’re discovering and what happens when this work bumps into your actual life.

And you get lifetime access, so there’s no falling behind and no frantic catching up.

Dawntember is for the woman who has accomplished a lot, handled a lot and become very good at being who everyone needed her to be, but has started wondering:

Who am I now? What still fits? What have I outgrown? What do I actually want from here?
We’re not doing “new year, new you.” You have too much life experience for that.

We’re starting with the woman who’s already here.

Because September 21 is my birthday and Personal New Year, the entire experience is $21.

You’re not starting over. You’re starting from experience.

Join me at dawnmrivers.com/dawntember

My Yellow Summer started with nail polish.Not a strategy. Not a brand campaign. Nail polish. 💛In the spring of 2013, I v...
09/14/2026

My Yellow Summer started with nail polish.

Not a strategy. Not a brand campaign. Nail polish. 💛

In the spring of 2013, I visited my daughter and got my nails painted yellow. Then I bought a yellow hat, she bought yellow shoes, and somewhere in the middle of it all, I decided to call it My Yellow Summer.

Once I named it, I started looking for yellow everywhere. Clothes, accessories, a Porsche that obviously required a photo, and a bicycle that wasn’t mine—but I asked the owner if I could pose with it because I was committed by then.

Other people joined in. They wore yellow, sent pictures, tagged me, and eventually came to a party where everyone had to wear yellow.

My Yellow Summer officially ended on September 21, my birthday. Dawntember.

I didn’t sit down and decide to create a movement. I was playing, celebrating myself, and creating reasons to enjoy my life.

People connected to that energy and started celebrating with me.

Years later, I began noticing the choices underneath these stories: the thoughts and words I changed, what I allowed myself to want, and the actions I took because of it. That path eventually led to the Awakened Woman, *You Get What You Get*, and now Dawntember in a completely different form.

This year, I’m inviting other women into it intentionally—not to become me, but to pay enough attention to themselves to discover what makes their own lives feel more like theirs.

And yes, we’ll celebrate too. I have 14 years of evidence that celebration can be surprisingly useful research. 💛

09/14/2026

I have a bone to pick with you 🍎!!

I had to get a new iPhone because the 13 was about to blow up 💣💥 and I upgrade it to 17e. The thing is, that it has a different charging port, so of course I had to get a new cable to connect to my car.

And it won’t plug into my old headphones because it has a different port.

That’s how they get you. The more upgrades that they create, the more accessories you have to purchase.

Thanks but no thanks. That is all.

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