Finding My Way Home
Post-Traumatic Growth Coaching
A place to reconnect with yourself
What if healing can begin with a simple pause, a breath, or a hand to the heart? 🌱
Hi, I'm Esther Brandon.
Finding My Way Home is for women finding their next steps after trauma, illness, loss, or a major life transition.
Through my own recovery and repair, I learned how healing it can be to bring mindful awareness practice together with healing science. This became medicine for my nervous system.
I came to understand how our brain and nervous system can recover, reconnect, and bring mind, heart, and body back into wholeness.
Here you'll be listened to with care and met with kindness. There is nothing to fix. We move softly, at your pace, in your time, in a way that feels safe enough.
I invite you to read more about my story and the voices and experiences that shaped this work.
“There aren't many people like Esther Brandon. She is kind, empathetic, and wise beyond belief. She has a profound ability to make you feel seen and heard, even amidst great struggle. She is authentic and courageous and it shows up in her coaching work. Highly recommend working with her.”
— Isabel Mata, Writer and Mindfulness Teacher
“Being truly heard by Esther releases the built-up steam in my life.”
— Kathy, coaching client
Finding My Way Home: A Vagal Toning Practice
This video invitation was created for the September 30 Vagal Toning session.
Our next Vagal Toning session is October 28: 11:00 AM-12:15 PM ET, 8 AM-9:15 AM PT
Polyvagal Theory offers a framework for understanding how our nervous system responds to cues of safety and threat, and how we can softly nurture our capacity for regulation and connection.
A warm invitation to join me on Wednesday, October 28, from 11:00–12:15 PM ET for
Finding My Way Home: A Vagal Toning Practice.
We’ll create space to rest, slow down, and notice what’s here — finding soft ways to soothe and settle, especially if your nervous system has been carrying a lot lately.
We’ll practice with breath, sound, soft movements, and soothing self-applied touch — practices you can return to in your own time and in your own way.
No experience needed. Come as you are. đź’›
đź’« Wednesday, October 28
💫 11:00 AM–12:15 PM ET (8:00–9:15 AM PT)
đź’« Online via Zoom
🌱 Fee $25 — Fee should never be an obstacle. Reduced rates available.
Please reach out if this would be helpful.
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This morning, I found a David Whyte poem that had somehow made its way back onto my bookshelf. It felt like exactly the poem I needed to see.
I’ll offer it here....
Sweet Darkness
When your eyes are tired the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own.
There you can be sure you are not beyond love.
The dark will be your womb tonight.
The night will give you a horizon further than you can see.
You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn
anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
— David Whyte, “Sweet Darkness,” The House of Belonging
What participants are experiencing 🌱
A few reflections from participants in my recent classes. I am grateful for their kind words.
"Another beautiful class. I appreciate the tempo of your teaching, the pauses, the beautiful slides, time for questions and the practice too!"
— Orit, Introduction to the Vagus Nerve
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"I'm so glad I got to the 2nd class. I learned so much! I have practiced some of what you taught us."
— Karen, Introduction to the Vagus Nerve
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"That was sooooo lovely. Your voice is so soothing and inviting. Thank you so much for supporting a deeper practice that I was able to embody on all the sensory levels. I feel calm, clear and connected."
— Lori, Vagal Toning
Accessibility matters to me.
I hold a small number of sliding-scale openings at any time, and I'm happy to explore options if finances are a concern.
If you'd like to be in touch, there's space for that here — a simple email, or a free conversation.
The Resource Library
🌿 Finding My Way Home combines trauma-informed mindfulness and healing science — including Interpersonal Neurobiology and Polyvagal Theory. You’re warmly invited to explore these teachings in the Resource Library.
“Esther Brandon is the real deal—wise and kind and deeply knowledgeable. If Post-Traumatic Growth Coaching appeals, highly recommend you check her out!"
— Yael Shy, Founder and CEO of Sefira Wellness, an organization focused on mindfulness and sustainable thriving.