Hi, I’m Gage.

There are many ways I can describe myself.

The more straightforward ways include:   Woman. Daughter. Sister. Friend. Professional coach and mentor. Facilitator. Artist. Lifelong learner. Gardener. Yogi.

Then, there are the more colorful, authentic-feeling ways:  Soul-Centric Dream Worker. Animist. Earth Witch. Artist of Life.

My path to where I am today has been a long and winding one, not at all clear-cut or linear (as I once thought paths were supposed to be).

Today, what I know about living a life that’s true to oneself is that it’s much more like this:

…a scribbly, messy, perfectly imperfect trail that wanders here and there, to and fro, over all kinds of terrain. It’s a path full of uncertainty and doubt. Glorious successes and messy failures. Moments of losing the trail, and then slowly but surely finding it once again.

My experience is also that it’s a path full of many more questions than answers.

In fact, these days, my sense is that the questions themselves are a lot more interesting than the answers, for it is our own unique questions that point us in a particular direction of looking, and will many times determine what we see and find.

During the many times that confusion and doubt have come to bear in my own life, this quote by Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke has helped to ease my searching, fearful, doubtful, and impatient mind:

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

Rilke’s words are a great reminder to slow down and ‘live everything’ now. Further, that the path - even if I cannot see it - is always there, always emerging, if only I have the presence to sense it.

MY WHY

First, when I’m coaching another human, I experience the work we’re doing together as helping them return to the truth of who they are. This aligns deeply with my purpose as a soul-centered coach, and it gives my natural gifts and skills a meaningful place to meet real needs in the world.

Second, I coach as a way of paying forward what I’ve received. I wouldn’t be where I am today without the coaches, mentors, teachers, elders, and guides who offered me their time, attention, love, honesty, and fierce compassion. They helped me move out of my own way more times than I can count, while also showing me what’s possible through their example. What I admire most about them is their willingness to be vulnerable, real, and deeply rooted in service, passing on what they were given rather than holding onto it.

I endeavor to follow in their footsteps and become something like good nourishment for a world in need.

education + credentials

• Professional Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation (2014)

  
  

Wild Mind Training Program, Level 1 Graduate (2014- 2020)

• Bachelor's Degree in Art & Spanish, Humboldt State University (2002)

A Few Things I Believe…

I believe in Soul; that deeply personal, unique, generative, and creative genius that lives within each one of us.

I believe that our true work is to find, embody, and inhabit our particular genius (i.e., soul) as fully as possible.

I believe that when we’ve come up to a place in life where we’re feeling deeply uncertain about our direction or what’s next, that we’ve actually come to a very potent place: the end of a known road and the beginning of a path filled with possibility. At such junctures, we have the potential to experience life, ourselves, and the world in a completely different way.

I believe that imagination is one of the most potent and powerful resources we have as humans. I believe we are here to use our imagination in service to Life, and that our dreams show the way to exactly what the world needs now.

I believe that there is no time to waste. Now is the time to listen to that still, small voice within, and to start making steps (however big or small) toward that which you feel in your heart and see in your soul.