Dr. Dawn, the founder of Family Renewed, is a Board Certified Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist in practice for over 30 years. She has always valued family, but after life’s unexpected twists and turns and an early divorce, as a single working mother, she understood the complexities of work-life balance and the need to Anticipate Challenges in your life in order to build the family that you want. So, when she met her husband more than 25 years ago, and they knew they wanted to blend their family, they knew they needed a plan so they would not make the mistakes they had made in the past. Utilizing her professional and personal experience, his disciplined acumen, and their spiritual foundation, they created an environment where their blended family could thrive. Ten years later, because of the challenges military families were experiencing on the isolated military installation they were stationed at, Dr. Porter who was working as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist on the military post, created a resiliency program for military families to navigate the challenges they were facing. She facilitated a military family retreat implementing strategies she has learned from her professional and personal life. As a blended military family mom of six (yours, mine and ours) who has lived and worked in the “civilian” world for most of her adult life and in more than 10 different communities across the country, she offers unique insights into challenges families face and provides proven methods to strengthen and support them. Her passion for helping families flourish, combined with her informative and relatable style, contributes to the effectiveness of the Family Renewed Intensives, Workshops and Retreats.