🍃 Finding Your Way
Post-Traumatic Growth & Resilience Coaching for Women
Whenever you're ready, there's a gentle way to be in touch.
When you've experienced trauma, or are in a season of post-traumatic growth,
you may find yourself feeling on edge, overwhelmed, or sensitive in ways that have lingered.
This is where Finding Your Way can meet you —
softly offering a way toward feeling safety here, in the present moment.
💛 A space to tend the wounded places —
to be seen with kindness, listened to with care,
as you notice your strengths and brave steps forward,
as there is more room to reconnect with yourself,
in your own time, at your pace.
What if healing can begin with a simple pause?
🍃 In a session, we listen softly to the body's natural wisdom, intelligence, and rhythms.
Why This Path Matters
"Esther's class was both powerful and calming. I appreciated the way she weaves mindfulness with an understanding of the brain and nervous system. Her gentle vagal toning practice offered a meaningful 'aha' moment that supported my own healing." — Sasha
This path integrates mindfulness with the science of healing, informed by two frameworks that cultivate our well-being:
Interpersonal Neurobiology — an interdisciplinary science exploring how the mind, brain, and relationships integrate, linking differentiated parts into harmonious flow.
Polyvagal Theory — which explores how the nervous system responds to safety and threat, shaping our capacity for regulation, connection, and ease.
Together, they inform the mindful awareness at the heart of Finding Your Way — gently befriending the nervous system, and softly supporting the path toward healing.
🌱 This is what transformed my life: first, feeling safer — and then, slowly, the lost, scattered parts finding their way back to wholeness. That returning is integration — of heart, mind, and body.
Healing isn't about fixing ourselves; it's about coming home to who we already are.
You May Be Feeling
Perhaps you're noticing:
A mix of anxiousness and a quiet sense of hope about what's ahead
Waves of overwhelm, or a sense that the world doesn't always feel safe
Some hesitation or uncertainty about where — or how — to begin
A feeling of being unsettled, even by everyday situations
A gentle longing to feel more at ease in your body and with your connections
🌱 🌱 I know these feelings from the inside. Not from a textbook — from my own body, my own bones, my own tender, gradual walk back toward feeling safe.
From My Own Finding My Way
“Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We feel more alive.
We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation and healing.”
– Jon Kabat Zinn
Trauma recovery is its own quiet heroism — a soft and steady walking toward the light of your own wholeness.That understanding became the foundation of Finding Your Way — a space where healing softly becomes possible, in your own time, at your own pace. 💛
And I know this not just as a guide — but as someone who has walked it.
I know what it is to long for safety — to carry that unsettled longing quietly, for a long time. Ten years ago, a breast cancer diagnosis became an unexpected turning point. Grief arose. And slowly, beneath it, so did clarity — and a deeper knowing of my own strength.
What surfaced was older than the diagnosis. Years of quiet disconnection — the kind that begins in childhood, when safety wasn't quite available — slowly became visible. Not all at once. But softly, over time, what had been carried in silence became something that could be named, and gradually, repaired and integrated.
I came to understand that safety begins in the nervous system. When it is soothed and regulated, something tender becomes possible — not fixing ourselves, but softly reconnecting with ourselves.
Art by, Vicky Alvarez
When the nervous system is soothed, there is more space — to breathe, to feel the ground beneath your feet, to reconnect with a steady sense of self.
From that steadiness, something becomes possible that may have felt out of reach for a long while.
To be in connection. To be seen with kindness. To find your way.
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're not ready to connect, you're welcome to explore the resources here at your own pace.
If you'd like to be in touch, there's space for that here — a simple email, or a free Inquiry Call.
The Resource Library
🍃 Finding Your Way weaves trauma-informed mindful awareness practice and healing science — including Interpersonal Neurobiology and Polyvagal Theory —You’re warmly invited to visit these teachings in the Resource Library.
What a session may include:
Grounded in trauma-informed mindfulness and an understanding of how the brain and nervous system work, 🍃Finding Your Way offers gentle, practical ways to support this settling — allowing your system to feel more steady, more resourced, and more at ease over time. I think of this combination as medicine for the nervous system.
💛 Sessions offer a safe-enough space to tend the wounded places — to be seen with kindness, listened to with care, and offered soft attention.
As we tend to the wounded places, our capacity to reconnect with ourselves gently increases, leading to a soft reconnection with your inner strength and a deepening sense of wholeness.