About Candace
I’m Candace Dalmagne-Rouge, the guide behind Becoming with CDR.
My work is devoted to supporting people at moments when something in life is shifting - when familiar ways of being no longer fit, when questions surface, or when an inner knowing begins to call for change. These moments are deeply human, and they deserve care, presence, and respect for one’s own inner wisdom.
Through ceremony, retreats, and teaching, I create grounded, heart-led spaces where people can slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with what is true for them to guide them forward. I don’t offer answers to follow or paths to replicate. Instead, I walk alongside those who are ready to orient from the heart rather than the head, and to make conscious choices about how they want to live.
Becoming with CDR is the container through which this work is offered. It exists to support realignment, transition, and forward movement - not through fixing or prescription, but by creating conditions where clarity can emerge from within. This work is rooted in the belief that becoming is not about striving toward an ideal, but about choosing to live in alignment with who you’re meant to be.
My approach is practical, embodied, and grounded in lived experience. Drawing from heart-based wisdom, embodied practices, and years of holding intentional space, I support people in navigating change with greater self-trust, integrity, and presence. This work is designed to meet real life as it is - complex, nuanced, and full of possibility.
If you’re here, you don’t need to have everything figured out. A sense of readiness, curiosity, or quiet recognition is enough. From there, we begin.
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Candace Dalmagne-Rouge is the founder of CDR Becoming, a practice devoted to accompanying people as they reconnect with inner clarity, self-trust, and the deeper intelligence that guides meaningful change.
Through ceremony, ritual, retreats, and guided experiences, Candace creates intentional spaces that support conscious choice and authentic forward movement. Her work centers on helping people orient from inner wisdom rather than external expectations, inherited narratives, or habitual patterns — cultivating the capacity to live with greater presence, integrity, and freedom.
Drawing from spiritual intelligence and lived experience, she offers practical frameworks and practices that support emotional clarity, discernment, and a more intentional relationship with life.
Before dedicating herself fully to this work, Candace spent over a decade supporting entrepreneurs, organizations, and innovation ecosystems across healthcare, technology, and research and development in the U.S. and internationally. With an MBA and a systems-aware background, she brings structure, discernment, and real-world practicality to her inner and spiritual work.
Her personal path began in adolescence following a diagnosis of scoliosis, which led her into a deep exploration of embodiment, healing, and inner guidance. This experience continues to inform her work today, an approach that honors personal sovereignty, welcomes all belief systems, and invites each individual into deeper self-trust and inner freedom.
Candace is a Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant, Cacao Practitioner, and Reiki practitioner. She is also the mother of six-year-old twins. Living between France and the U.S., she is nourished by travel, movement, and time in nature.