Restorative Health Practices, PLLC R.B. Dawson, DNP, ARPN
Lifestyle Primary Care
Lifestyle & Wellness Coaching
Healthcare Advocacy
Corporate Wellness Programs
*Direct to Patient Billing
Our Mission
At Restorative Health Practices, this is not just a business but a way of life. We want to empower individuals to take control of their own health and wellness through education, coaching, and personalized care. RHP focuses on what you eat, how you move, sleep, substance use, stress management, and relationships, before prescriptions and procedures if possible. We are a faith based practice and do believe that ultimately physical health is not fully realized without a balanced spirit and mind. Because personal growth is key to your health, you need a reason to change, a key motivating factor. Bring that with you to your appointments.
We won't preach but remind and encourage. The approach will be consistent and realistic to help meet your goals.
Be ready to work and we will help you get to your goal. A better you is a better home, work place, and community!
Your journey to a healthier, happier life starts here - lets take the first step together.
Key Points
Health is a lifelong journey, not a destination. Every small step you take towards feeling better—whether it’s a nourishing meal, a few minutes of meditation, or a gentle stretch—counts. Be kind to yourself, celebrate your progress, and know that you are capable of creating lasting change, one mindful moment at a time.
We will be a team. Our relationship as provider and patient is important to growth. I will commit to you if you commit to yourself. I will show you how to meditate, exercise, eat, cook, and focus on your goals.
I am not just a provider but my own patient as well. I know this approach works because I use it every day, and have helped others too. These are not quick appointments, likely 30-60minutes or may be more if needed. They should be regular not once a year!
Most chronic disease is simply related to what we eat,, exercise, and stress management. This typical Standard American Diet and Life feeds anxiety, low energy, isolation, and destroys your immune system. This leads to chronic low grade inflammation and disease expression over time. Fatigue, joint pains, bowel problems, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease. autoimmune disease, and even some cancers are all linked to what you do every day. Your family history is not always your destiny if you have the right lifestyle approach.
Meet Your Practitioner
Robert B. Dawson, DNP
Veteran /Nurse Practitioner / Health Advocate / Innovator
Rob Dawson, DNP has dedicated over 29 years to improving healthcare outcomes as a nurse and nurse practitioner. Rob is a world renown authority in the field of vascular access devices. He has nursing associate and bachelor degrees from Norwich University, masters and doctoral degrees from Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions. Rob has a Masters Degree in Health Services Administration from Central Michigan University. He is Board Certified as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner with extensive hospital based care experienced for acute and chronically ill adults. He has had a lifelong interest in more natural medical care and achieved a Board Certification as a Lifestyle Medicine Healthcare Professional through the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He started a pilot program in Colebrook treating diabetic patients with chronic illness at the Colebrook patient Care Center. This program proved you could blend Lifestyle Medicine with more traditional Primary Care and get results! Rob studies and teaches Medical Qi Gong and completed a 200 Hour certificate program. This practice is focused on both still and moving meditation to improve health and wellness. Medical Qi Gong through Zen Wellness, Inc. uses elements from Tai Chi, Yoga, and Qi gong.
Rob's Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP) specializes in process improvement and acute care vascular access. He has studied this field of care extensively and, invented new care models and processes to improve patient safety and expand nursing scope of practice.
A globally recognized authority in his field, Rob has authored dozens of articles, is a bold advocate for system change to improve patient care. He has traveled extensively, providing lectures and workshops to healthcare professionals around the world. What he discovered time and time again in all the healthcare places in America and abroad, is that often time "modern" healthcare is too variable for reasons that relate to the simple whims and ways people work together. One person can make it worse, but one can make it much better. Keeping people working well in a system requires a lot of personal effort and investment and a sense that we all are all equal in this together. If one group, person, or provider loses a patient first focus, and wants more of something than another than the system is thrown off.
Right now American Healthcare is a big mess. We lost site of taking care of people on all levels which has led to fragmented care, poor communication, long wait times, lost time with friends and family, higher expenses, and frustration with inconsistent results.
Rob believes in investing in people, with an open and honest exchange of information. All improvement is from building a strong foundation first. Do the simple things well, often, and first, then move on.
Rob believes in asking, "Why Not Do it Differently", to paraphrase Einstein, if you keep doing the same things over every day, you will get the same results
Let us do it differently and get you better results for health and wellness at reasonable price. Better physical health means better mental and spiritual health. Rob believes in simple, meaningful changes. Meaningful changes connect what we know works (evidence) to your desired goals, and give it structure (prescriptions) and consistent coaching (effort). That is process improvement whether in healthcare, building a home, or running a business, etc...
If you miss a day, just get back to it the next day. Great health is not perfection, It is enjoying the work of a better, happier, more vibrant version of yourself.
No can promise immortality, but we can promise a better quality of life!
Rob wants to invest in the health and well being of the community of Colebrook, NH, where he lives with his wife Elizabeth, and Newfoundlands Krunch and Trout, and a few birds!
Rob is a proud Navy Veteran. In his spare time he enjoys fly fishing, nature photography, and the Adventure of Life!
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