At its core, dawns & tides is about the art of human-ing: the ongoing practice of finding our way through change, uncertainty, growth, and becoming.
about dawns & tides
Led by ICF-certified coach Becca Gauvin, dawns & tides supports those navigating life’s in-between seasons: the uncertain space between where you are and where you’re going, and who you are as you go. Rather than focusing only on external change, the parts seen from the surface, this work takes a deeper approach: exploring the beliefs, patterns, values, and identities that shape how we move through life's transitions. Through that exploration, clients gain the clarity, self-trust, and sense of agency needed to move forward in ways that feel sustainable and truly their own. From there, coaching extends beyond insight alone, supporting clients in taking meaningful action so that their outer lives can more fully reflect what they know to be true within.
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dawns & tides supports both external and internal change.
External changes might include career pivots, moving somewhere new, relationship shifts, starting a business or creative venture, or redefining what you want your life to look like.
Internal changes often involve gaining clarity, building self-trust, reconnecting with yourself, or finding a greater sense of direction and purpose.
Whether the change begins with an external event or an internal feeling, the work is the same: understanding where you are, clarifying where you want to go, and navigating the space in between.
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There are several ways to engage with dawns & tides, depending on your needs and capacity:
1:1 coaching
Group programs (under development)
Workshops
Community events (online and in-person)
Self-guided resources
No matter the format, the work remains client-led, reflective, and action-oriented.
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The dawns & tides approach goes deeper, exploring the values, beliefs, patterns and identities that shape how we move through life and change.
It’s not about quick-fixes, productivity hacks, or following someone else’s definition of success. Rather, d&Tt offerings are designed to reconnect you to yourself and your unique direction, arming you with skills and tools to return to when you inevitably face change in your life again and again.
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This work may be a good fit if you’re experiencing any of the following:
A big change just happened in your life, and you have a feeling of, “now what?”
You’ve been on autopilot, stuck, restless or disconnected
You’re dragging your feet in the morning, unexcited to start your day
You know exactly what you want to be doing but you can’t seem to bring yourself to do it
You have a quiet feeling you want something different but don’t yet know exactly what
You’re looking for greater clarity, self-trust and direction
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Therapy and life coaching can complement each other, but they serve different purposes.
In short, therapy often helps you understand how you got to where you are, while coaching focuses more on where you want to go from here.
Therapy is focused on mental health, emotional wellbeing, and healing. Coaching is focused on helping you gain clarity, navigate change, and move toward what you want next.
While both may explore past experiences, they do so in different ways. Therapy often works to understand, process, or heal the impact of those experiences, while coaching explores how they may be influencing your present so that you can move forward with greater awareness and intention.
Many people work with both a therapist and a coach. If you're navigating a mental health diagnosis, coaching can still be supportive—as long as your mental health feels stable and manageable enough to engage in forward-focused reflection and action.
At dawns & tides, I encourage people to choose the support that feels most appropriate for where they are. In some seasons, that may be therapy. In others, coaching. Sometimes, it's both.
Most people were taught how to build a life, but not how to navigate what it means to be human within it.
Hi, I’m Becca, the human and coach behind dawns & tides.
I care deeply about how we’re taught to move through life, and what so many of us were never really taught at all: how to be human within it. We learn how to achieve, how to perform, how to keep going, but rarely how to navigate the internal world that comes with being alive: uncertainty, identity shifts, change, longing, and becoming.
Through both lived experience and professional training, I’ve become passionate about supporting people through the moments where life feels like it’s asking for something different—often not because something is “wrong,” but because something in them is pulling them toward something more honest, more fully their own.
While our lives may look different on the surface, I’ve found the inner experience is often deeply shared. We all grapple with questions of who we are, what we want, and how to trust ourselves, even across very different circumstances.
And while these experiences are deeply human, they aren’t something we’re meant to navigate without support. There are tools, practices, and ways of relating to ourselves and the world that can help us move through them.
This is the heart of my work. I don’t position myself as the expert on your life, you are. My role is to support you in reconnecting with yourself so you can move through change with greater clarity, self-trust, and steadiness in your own direction.
If you’re in a season of change, uncertainty, or becoming, I’d be honoured to walk alongside you.
— Becca
what I believe
1 Every person has a unique path and inner wisdom, even when it’s hard to access through external noise and expectations.
2 Feeling stuck and uncertain is a natural and inevitable part of being human, not a sign you’re doing something wrong.
3 Time in nature is integral to well-being. Out there, we’re offered refreshed perspectives, permission to move in seasons, and space to hear ourselves more clearly.
4 Change is not a one-time event, but an ongoing, cyclical process we return to again and again, often with a new perspective.
5 Our well-being is deeply intertwined, with our environment and communities; a better world is built through empathy, inclusion, and acts of kindness.
6 There is no “end destination” for you to arrive at. You are not here to perfect yourself, but to be fully living your life as it unfolds, as you are.
“I was so much more set on my direction, and finally had specific things to work through rather than just stumbling around aimlessly in confusion.”
~Ellen H.
“When I think about having Becca as a coach, the word that comes to mind is comforting. She has a very calming presence, but there’s also an air of no nonsense, which really makes you feel like she’s determined to get you where you want to be. I truly looked forward to speaking with her each session. She’s so well spoken and she was always able to take mental and emotional chaos and rephrase or reframe it so that it made sense, allowing us to then upack it. I always walked away from the sessions feeling more calm and confident.”
~Leila S.
“I felt like the chaos in my mind was starting to unravel.”
~Nikki A.