Dawn Of The Journey - Rediscovery of Yourself

Emotional, Mental & Spiritual Healing Outreach

~ Beginnings to New Endings to Wellness - Online ~

Online and in-person Personal Growth,
Healing and Empowerment Outreach &
Retreat Services, Resources and Information

Telephone: (902) 740-6237
Email: outreach@dawncoveabbey.org

available to anyone, electronically
anywhere - 24/7
from Yarmouth Nova Scotia Canada

Seminars - Workshops - Lectures - Online
email and msn/yahoo (webcam), and
in-person Counseling/ Counselling (Life
Coaching), Resources

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Did you arrive here because:

you suffer from emotional, mental and spiritual
turmoil or imbalances? - or
you engage in “dysfunctional and unquestioned
thinking”? - or
you have thoughts that are limiting, and self-
sabotaging, instead of self-affirming? - or
are you in a relationship, family or friendship that
is not functioning properly?
or is your career a source of problems or turmoil
for you?

Seminars-Workshops-Lectures
(Healing Circle)

Inspirational/Motivational
Section (MorningStar)

Spiritual Dimension
of life and healing

Information Resources:

See Navigation Bars along top
left side of this page

Dawn Cove Abbey Outreach Online: a stopping-point
for those on a healing, growing journey
to self-renewal and empowerment.
helping people with their New Beginning.

Helping people:

Recover & Heal

from the inner wounds life causes:
and bringing healing and recovery
on Emotional, Mental and Spiritual levels.

Specializing in assisting Adult Children
from Alcoholic and Dysfunctional Families

Helping people:

heal & build Better Relationships
heal & build Better Families
heal & build Better Friendships
build Better Careers
build Better Lives

Providing assistance in Recovery and Healing,
through:

Seminars
Workshops
Retreats
Personal and Group coaching/counselling
Motivational lectures

Helping victims become Survivors:
Only the Wounded Heal
- Only the Separated Reconcile

The Dawn Cove Abbey Tradition: Rediscover Yourself
where the wounded come for healing; and the separated come for reconciliation.

It is an outreach tradition built on the original retreat centre activity,
offering empowerment and healing services and information:
it was established in 1995, in commemoration of Abbey Dawn in Kingston, Ontario.

Many studies have shown that Prayer Works! Dawn
Cove Abbey has formed a world-wide Prayer Circle, to
be called upon for assistance in healing and growth.
If you wish to join, or need prayer, please contact me.

There is no obligation.

My emphasis is on empowering you to process past abuse issues
that led to your negative, dysfunctional lifestyle – or resulted
in other painful situations using the following strategy:

Pain/hurt reduction first
Functional & emotional imbalance next
Investigation into causes & external influences
Inquiry into dysfunctional and unquestioned

thinking patterns, and

Finally, prevention & healthy life sustaining choices.

Using the services and information resources of Dawn Cove
Abbey Outreach, I focus on in teaching people how to become
empowered by having internal boundaries so they can learn to
relax and enjoy life while healing.

Emotional Health is a state
of being where you are in
control of your thoughts,
feelings and behaviours.

It means you have ways of
dealing with, and overcoming
depression, anxiety, chronic
pain, loneliness and grief.

When you are in good
emotional health, you feel
good about yourself and your
relationships and you keep
problems in perspective.

Emotionally healthy people
still have emotional problems
and mental illness, but have
learned of ways to cope with
stress and problems, and
know when to seek help from
their doctor, counsellor
(coach) - therapist.

Mental health is a state of
psychological and emotional
well-being that enables you
to work, love, relate to
others effectively, and
resolve conflicts.

It provides you with the
capacity to form harmonious
relations in your social and
physical environment, and to
achieve a balanced
satisfaction of your own
drives.

Mentally healthy people are
in a relatively enduring
state of being in which they
are reasonably satisfying to
themselves, which is
reflected in their zest for
living and feeling of self-
realization (empowerment).

Spiritual Health:
spirituality is unique to each
individual person.

Your “spirit” refers to the
deepest part of you; the part
that lets you make meaning
of your world.

Your spirit provides you with
the revealing sense of who
you are, why you are here,
and what your purpose for
living is.

It is that innermost part of
you that allows you to gain
strength and hope.

You may not often give much
thought to your spiritual
wellness, yet its impact on
your life is unavoidable.

The basis of spirituality is
discovering a sense of
meaningfulness, and
connectedness in your life
and coming to know that you
have a purpose to fulfill.

For some people, spirituality
may be equated with
traditional religions.

For others, it may mean
growing in their personal
relationships with others, or
through being at peace with
nature: a sense of connection.

My name is Klaas Tuinman and I established Dawn Cove Abbey as a healing/learning community in memoriam as a
tribute to Abbey Dawn of Kingston, Ontario, Canada,

and in honour of it’s founder: Wallace Havelock Robb (see W HR).
For more information on Dawn Cove Abbey and its origins, please see About Us.

To address the spiritual side of life, Dawn Cove Abbey has an "un-church"
church - an itinerant, mobile chapel - Our Lady Saint Mary Magdalene -
for the spiritual dimension of human life (services & masses in meadows,
forest glades, by the sea and in your home, etc).

It is open to all who come - regardless of background and beliefs: all
are welcome.

"Un-church" because there is no building. "Church" means community,
or gathering. Saint Mary by the Sea goes to where you are - you don't
have to come to it (see Chapel). Our services and Mass are open to all,
regardless of how you imagine God to be (the liturgy is ecumenical and
inclusive, with few gender-specific elements).

Since the word "church" comes from the Latin word "ecclesia" meaning
"gathering or community - a gathering can take place anywhere - hence the
chapel's mobility.

Of course, to round it all out, Dawn Cove Abbey provides personal guidance for growth, healing and empowerment
through personal life coaching/counselling, as well as the many information files that exist on this website - the
information is free and available to all.

I sincerely hope that you take the Less Travelled Road and that it brings awakening and healing to you.

Please feel free to write at outreach@dawncoveabbey.org or me directly at: fr_klaas@yahoo.ca
or see Contact & Information, there is no obligation

PHONE: (902) 740-6237

Klaas Tuinman M.A.
Deerfield, NS. 2009

The site has many human issue & problem oriented information pages, as
well as "solution-oriented" ones roughly divided into "barriers" and
empowerment (skills potential) - just follow the grouping on the navigation
bars.

These are supported by seminars, lectures, counselling workshops and
discussion group clinics.

The workshops are participatory and interactive (hands-on) to thoroughly
acquire and practice new personal skills.
Bringing healing/recovery services to you - wherever you may be.

Empowerment & Growth start with knowledge: hence we have provided many
people-oriented resource pages also.

As well, there is an Inspirational" Spiritual Roadside Assistance section
(morale boosters) - to shift your focus from current woes, and to round it
out and maintaining its holistic views,
there is also a "connection" section on the website - to maintain connection
with the past: people and events - memorials. "Connection" (bonding) is
what is missing so very much in contemporary life.

Welcome to Dawn Cove Abbey Outreach Online

- Refuge and Healing for broken lives -
- a place to mend -

Dawn Cove Abbey holistic Mental, Emotional
and Spiritual Wellness Outreach Online

welcomes and invites you into a safe, healing and
nurturing environment
that encourages awareness and education,
and promotes balance of mind and spirit.

Dawn Cove Abbey's Outreach Philosophy:
that victims have the right to heal in their own way,
in their own time,

and that healing involves the true integration of
information and techniques
that heal body, mind and spirit.
And that using both
will ultimately lead
to greater growth, faster healing,
and self-empowerment.

Dawn Cove Abbey:
in a world of change,

adapting to meet people of
all ages where they are.

A New Beginning - mobile - accessible.

A website full of important things to know
right here at your fingertips

Especially informative for Adult Wounded
Children

The information is complemented by Support
Services:

Workshops, Seminars and Healing Retreats,
Guidance, Counselling, Coaching,
- to assist your New Beginning.

Please take your time and browse the site
the information is available free, without
obligation.

Return as often as you like, or need to.

Dawn Cove Abbey New Beginning Online Outreach

LIFE COACHING / GUIDING - COUNSELLING and CONSULTING FOR INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES & FAMILIES

26 years private practice
14 years online/distance counselling

Healing, Recovery and Reconciliation

When life hurts - there is immediate help for long term hope here

Dawn Cove Abbey Empowerment Outreach is a registered
non-profit business in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada

Click on the graphic above to
visit the Prayer Circle and more
at our sister site (Stella Maris)

For the Spiritual side of Life

Dawn Cove Abbey Outreach Online can assist you in your
healing and recovery journey; to help you discover and
develop Self-Empowerment through Emotional, Mental and
Spiritual Healing and Wellness coaching/counselling,
seminars and workshops.

Dawn Cove Abbey is a place and approach that recognizes
the importance of involving both mind and spirit in healing
and growth.

"mental illness".

Instead, they are showing their way of dealing with certain
circumstances in their lives - and that they can learn
better ways to cope, recover and heal.

Support coaching/guiding (counselling), therapy and
information is available to help you to:

clear and transform fear, blockages and old negative
patterns.
change from self-defeating and self-sabotaging
behaviours to empowering ones.
reduce or manage stress, anger, anxiety, guilt and
fear etc.
reconnect with your inner self (child) and the
wisdom within you.
experience deep relaxation, peace and rejuvenation.

The Navigation Bars at the top left provide 3 "inventories" of
what this site offers:
(2) - Topics that help Growth after awakening - and start the re-
invention process - (In Green)
(3) - Topics on the negative aspects of not having awakened yet
(also, a section on the
extreme outcomes of dysfunctional/sick living) - in Purple.
(4) - other information on the top horizontal bar - in Blue.

I specialize in “inner child" work, especially working with those
who fall under the “lost child” category.

My belief is that we are Spiritual Beings having a human
experience and that the key to enjoying life is awakening to
consciousness of our True Spiritual Nature.

Dawn Cove Abbey's Healing Recovery and Empowerment
Programs & Services:
Helping you to succeed on your healing/recovery and growth journey, you
will need some "tools" - new personal skills (life skills), an expanded
vocabulary to help understand yourself and others better and to support
your new attitude and behaviour towards life.

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!

For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.

The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;

For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;

But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,

And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.

Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
~Kalidasa

We achieve this through integrating our emotional health, mental health and spiritual health.
This allows the Loving Truth into people’s relationships with themselves, others and with life.
In that process people learn to Love themselves, and as you Love your self,
you gain the capacity to Truly Love your neighbour.

Changing our relationship with life can transform life into an exciting adventure.
Changing our relationship with self will change the world." ~ Robert Burney

Help and services are available through in-person, and online counse l ling / counseling/coaching,
seminars, workshops and lectures, as well as spiritual guidance through the mobile chapel (plus a
collection of on-site information pages).

People who really want to heal will find a way; those who don't, will find an excuse.

It began as a concept: it's first public service was electronic outreach through a Computer Bulleting Board
and a centre for coaching/counselling), and included a chapel .

Dawn Cove Abbey has grown over the years. It is now mobile (and electronic) in presenting the various
services offered. The chapel, too, exists in mobile form.

Its focus has shifted to presenting it's Healing Circle Seminars, Workshops, Retreats, and Lectures as
well as a travelling Coaching/Counselling Clinic, while continuing its original mode: electronic outreach and
connection and offering Distance (email) Life Coaching/Counselling.

Although headquartered in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada, its electronic reach is international.

At Dawn Cove Abbey Outreach the focus is on Human Healing, Growth & Potential through Empowerment -
still providing various outreach services and programs.

It is fully in the 21st century.

Dawn Of The Journey

Dawn Of The Journey

Rediscovery of Yourself

- Dawn Cove Abbey -