We’re looking forward to introducing you to Sage Love. Check out our conversation below.
Sage, we’re thrilled to have you with us today. Before we jump into your intro and the heart of the interview, let’s start with a bit of an ice breaker: What do the first 90 minutes of your day look like?
I wake to birds chirping (alarm set on my phone), lay in bed for 15 minutes before I take a shower, make coffee and do my morning gratitude journal practice. I set alarms on my phone with specific songs to signal each step of my morning routine. I do yoga, morning stretching and physical therapy exercises, Then I eat something light and get started on my tasks for the day.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I am a Certified Pofessional Life Coach with a track record of helping people make their dreams come true, one person at a time. My registered business name is PrayerCraft LLC. I chose this name because I am a deeply spiritual woman who values my interpersonal relationship with the Divine Spirit through two way prayer (meaning I do not simply ask for prayer requests, but I listen for the answer the Holy Spirit gives me in my heart and then act accordingly). I wanted my business name to reflect my spirituality because the most important relationship in my life is with my Creator, and every other relationship flows from that divine connection into every person in my life.
The name PrayerCraft signifies how we craft our prayers matters. The language we use matters. How we speak to ourselves matters. After all, it is called spelling for a reason. If every word we say is a spell we speak over our life, then notice how are we speaking? What are our thoughts and words manifesting? No one wants to sail on the sinking ship of self-sabbatage and suffering, but we all suffer. Denying the sufferring is called spiritual bypassing: not helpful. What is helpful is creating space for us to process and asking the right questions so we can find the answers we always had within us all along. That is what great coaches do.
Listening is the most crucial skill in my prayer life and in my business. As a spiritual person, I recognize that each person’s relationship with the divine is unique. I listen to gain understanding of where the other person is coming from and ask questions to help each client find the answer that is hidden within them. I do not have all the answers, but I know how to ask the right questions. That is one thing that makes me special… and I learned to do it by listening deeply and attentively.
Currently, I have three distinct branches of my business. One branch focuses on working as a Career Success Coach. I am a private contractor working with Colorado State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, assisting people with disabilities with achieving their career goals, including résumé creation and tailoring, teaching clients how to use Indeed, LinkedIn, and other resources to find and apply for jobs, and doing the deeper work of mindset shifts to assist clients in developing more confidence, self- worth, envisioning their dream job as an achievalble outcome, and helping to set realistic SMART goals so that their dream comes true.
Another branch of my business is female focused and womb centered work. As a Spiritual Life Coach, I work inside the Passion Over Perfection Online Women’s Collective offerring one on one coaching services and workshops geared towards empowering women to transcend our circumstances with dignity and grace. I hold sacred space for emotional processing, meaningful reflection, and offer energetic tools like guided meditations and visualization techniques to alchemize and transform our greatest challenges into our biggest success stories.
In my private practice, my passion project is working with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse (and other forms of abuse). I use a trauma informed care approach to nurturing the inner child, honoring her for her innocence and playfulness, and teaching her how protect her energy, including how to cut the energetic, emotional and electronic cords that keep her trapped in the cycle of abuse. I teach how to create and maintain healthy boundaries, which is especially important when none existed before. I help women who have been suffering in silence, who want to break free of what is holding them back, learn how to embrace her divine feminine power, reclaim her sexual sovereignty, and lead with grace and grit.
To sum up my brand in three words: Authentic, Trustworthy, Empowered.
Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. What was your earliest memory of feeling powerful?
When I was five years old, I had an out of body experience in a lucid dream where I looked down at my body, saw the cord that connected my energetic body to my physical sleeping body, imagined a handful of baloons (from the Curious George book I had been reading that week) and floated out of the window of my room to “fly” over lush rolling hills of green, It was an such an adventure! I liked flying and felt incredibly powerful to be in the sky flying. When I started to worry about my physical body, I simply floated back down to it and woke up in my bed.
Lucid dreaming gave way to dream interpretation later in life. This was just the beginning of me awakening to my power.
Was there ever a time you almost gave up?
Of course! There have been numerous times when I wanted to give up. The measure of my character is manifest in the fact that I never did, no matter how difficult the circumstances. I cried the ugly tears, splashed cold water on my face, fixed my makeup, put on my boxing gloves, and CRUSHED IT! I can show others how to get through challenging times because I overcame obstacles too numerous to note in this article. For that, friends, you will need to buy my autobiography (winking emoji)…but because you asked, here is a taste.
I struggled to start writing this because I was not ready to tell my whole life story with all of my mistakes and childhood trauma exposed for all to see, so I did not know where to start. It felt overwhelming for me to try to simplify a lifetime of learning into a few paragraphs for a general audience. I knew deep down I did not want to write a fluff piece that made others feel good but did not deal with the deeper issues we all face as part of humanity as a whole. We do not exist as neat little islands. We exist in a culture, within a society, with family dynamics and often dysfunction. No matter how “nice” we are, we will have to deal with people we do not particularly like or who trigger our anger, indignation, frustration or any number of other feelings we would rather not have to feel. Welcome to life, the learning ground. We are all here to learn, whether we know it or not. Otherwise, what would be the point of all the suffering if we did not learn anything from it? It is my goal with this piece to tell you a bit about myself and how I choose to help others through the process of life, as a Certified Professional Life Coach. My journey was not always easy, but it was always worth it.
I wanted you to celebrate my success with me, but how could you if I never told you about the challenging journey I embarked upon to get to where I am now? How could you truly understand the courage and dedication it took to get here if I don’t mention the mountain I had to climb, but merely write about the current captivating view? If I only share the positive talking points, how will you know I am capable of helping or understanding someone like you, with your own unique experiences that shaped you, your own rough edges, tenderness and imperfections, complicated, layered, intersecting feelings, fears and shadows?
There is no way for me to meaningfully tell the highlights of my story unless you know the depths of darkness from which the light began to spring forth. It is only when you know the darkness that a person overcame, that you can truly appreciate the person they have become once they faced that darkness.
As an adult survivor of child abuse, I know how hard it is to unlearn childhood programming. I know what it feels like to not have a supportive family whose members chastize you instead of encouraging you even when you do the right thing for yourself (like call you stupid for paying to get a college education). I remember how alone I felt after graduation during the pandemic (when I should have been celebrating my Master of Theological Studies degree) and how I nearly gave up and ended my life the very day I graduated. But you know why I kept going? It was the impact my death would have on others versus the impact my life could have on others.
The path to get here wasn’t easy, but what I want you to know is that it was worth it. I am worth the effort. You are worth the effort. Although I thought about giving up many times, I never acted on those thoughts. Instead, I aimed to heal myself, to love myself the way I always wanted to be loved and to give myself the care I wasn’t receiving from others. That is when “Fierce Self Love” was born. The idea behind the trade name is that I love myself fiercely, no matter what. I never give up on myself. Fierce self love helped me to move out of victimhood and into empowerment. I began to shift my thinking by shifting my energetic attachments. Sometimes, I had to cut the cords to let people go because they were toxic for me. Sometimes, I had to create and enforce boundaries to protect myself. Sometimes, I had to advocate for change. Always, there was this fierce self love within me, guiding me to my purpose. The more I cultivated fierce self love within me, the more I grew stronger and more resilient in the face of injustice.
I know what it feels like to realize the people who were supposed to protect you were the very people who harmed you. I also know what it is like to rise out of that and take your power back! I crawled out of the wreckage of my abused past, fought tooth and nail to get out of the cesspool of society, let go of my shame, and reclaimed my dignity and sexual sovereignty. I channeled my inner Goddess and got to work creating the future I wanted for myself and others unapologetically. I believe everything I went through was for this reason: so I could become such an incredible life coach and public speaker that I raise the collective consciousness every time I enter a room.
Maybe I did not realize this in those low moments, but now I know I am too powerful to go down easy. The amount of sufferring is likely related to the strength it takes to endure, not some perceived weakness. So if I sufferred much, what does that say about my ability to overcome? If the devil wants a fight, he better run in the other direction because I don’t fight alone. I am powered by Divine backup!
Everything I ever went through made me the dynamic woman I am today. My sufferring turned into a skill set I can use to set others free. Every single thing was for my benefit and for God’s glory. If I had lived a charmed life, I would not be qualified to do the work I do now because I would not understand and empathize with the suffering of others in the way that I do because of our shared lived experiences. Believe it or not, I am grateful for my past because it shaped me into who I am. (and in case you haven’t noticed yet, I am pretty awesome) My purpose is made manifest in my relationships with my clients. In them, I get to see God’s power at work through me and that is AWESOME!
I cultivated a spiritual tool kit for myself. I turned my biggest challenges into my greatest skillset. My success story is evident to every person I help to let go of the past, every person who is celebrating their new job because they got the opportunity to work with me, every woman who finally learns to ask for exactly what she wants in her relationships and in the bedroom. My success and my legacy grows with each client I help. I am a powerhouse of Light!
So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. What would your closest friends say really matters to you?
Justice. I had five planets in Libra at the time of my birth, so justice is in my DNA. I will be cordial and kind, but if I come across injustice, get ready to battle! I will not back down in the face of injustice. I am determined, discrete, wise, resilient and resourceful. They will never even see me coming.
Truth. I will tell it like it is. Always. Don’t ask if you don’t want an honest answer. If you lie to me, prepare to be exposed. I don’t protect liars. You made your bed, honey. Truth is meant to set you free. I reserve my gentle voice for my clients.
Deep Spiritual Healing. From the inside out. Together we rise. Leading with grace and grit.
Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. When do you feel most at peace?
I am most at peace when I am doing my spiritual practices: yoga, meditation, grounding, lighting incense, featherwork, crystal work, reading for pleasure, oracle deck reading, listening to words of wisdom, listening to God, embodying the Goddess.
Contact Info:
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamara-love-296b61173/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sagelove11
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@prayercraft
- Other: https://linktr.ee/ms.lovehttps://poplme.co/prayercraft
Image Credits
All images were taken on my phone with the exception of the two taken with other people from the
Passion Over Perfection Women’s retreat. The large group is all participants of POP and the four facilitators in the wheat grass are both photo credit to:
Noel Williams Photography
so if you or someone you know deserves recognition please let us know here.
