 Around this time, after years of going under the name "Dawn Eden," she reclaimed her birth surname, as reported in the "Chicago Tribune".From September 2017 to May 2019 she served as assistant professor of Dogmatic Theology at Holy Apostles College and Seminary, in Cromwell, Connecticut.Her first book "The Thrill of the Chaste" was published in December 2006; she promoted it with appearances on the Eternal Word Television Network and NBC's "Today Show".