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WOMAN Dawn Mougel trades homes for health By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski
Dawn Mougel and her husband have her boys, who are 18, 24 and 27 years old. (Photos by Colin Latham)
16 / SCOTTSDALE AIRPARK NEWS / OCTOBER 2021
Be your own kind of beautiful” is emblazoned on the wall at Dawn Mougel’s Airpark-based practice, A New Dawn Wellness Center. The mantra is one that Mougel has adhered to since she opened the center in a salon suite in August 2018. She moved into the Airpark on June 5. “I think it sums up everything,” she says. “People come in because they feel like they’re looking older. They don’t like the way they look. They have hormone imbalances. They have sexual health issues.” After seeing the way her grandmother was treated in a hospital, Mougel is caring for her patients the right way — wholistically. Too many people, she says, seek a quick and easy treatment for a health or beauty issue. She believes in looking beyond the problem and treating the whole person so it does not reoccur. “A wholistic approach is important to me — the outside, the inside, their appearance,” she says. “I want them to feel good and to feel happy.” Mougel is the definition of a renaissance woman. She worked in real estate for more than 10 years and, even though she was successful, she was not fulfilled. She was inspired by her grandmother to turn her focus toward medicine. “She was always in and out of the hospital,” she says. “Although there are great doctors and nurses in hospitals, there were a few situations when she didn’t get the care that I would have given to her. “I just felt like I could be better and do better.” Mougel is a strong believer that nurses and others in the medical field should care about their patients “and cry with their families.” “I wanted more for patients in general,” she adds.
