About My Journey

Hi, I am Esther Sadie Brandon and I am so glad you are here 🍂

My parents were good and loving people, and they had experienced trauma. We now know that caregivers’ unresolved trauma is a critical factor that contributes to an insecure attachment relationship with their child.

What is attachment?

Why is it important?

 From my journey of repair and healing, I learned how secure attachment contributes to the growth and repair of our nervous system throughout our life time.

When we have had a secure attachment in childhood and have felt Safe, Soothed, Seen (beyond being seen by the eyes), we feel inner and outer security—-

“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

A Window Into My Story

Trainings & Accreditations:

  • M.S.Ed. Master of Science in Education, Leadership in Early Childhood Education, Wheelock College, Boston, MA

  • Retired, Director of the Undergraduate Education Field Placement Office, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA.

  • Co-Active Coach, Coaching Training Institute (CTI), Affiliated with ICF (International Coaching Federation) Accredited Coach Training Program, (ACTP)

  • International Coaching Federation (ICF) Certified Coach

  • Divine Sleep® Yoga Nidra Guide

  • Certificate of Completion: The Mindfulness Teaching Training Program, The Institute for Jewish Spirituality, New York City

  • Certificate of Completion: The Mindsight Approach To Well-Being: A Comprehensive online program of study in Interpersonal Neurobiology, with Dr. Daniel J. Siegel, Mindsight Institute, UCLA, Santa Monica.

  • Polyvagal Theory for Embodied Trauma Recovery: Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) Certification Training

  • Certificate of Completion: The Spiritual Healing Journey Online Course, The Academy of Inner Science, (2024 LIVE) Taught by Thomas Hubl

  • Healing Trauma: IPNB Clinical Strategies for Applying the 9 Domains of Integration toward Deep Therapeutic Growth (2023 Live), with Dr. Daniel J. Siegel

  • Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga For Trauma Recovery, The Embody Lab 10 hour Master Training Level 3, with Dr. Arielle Schwartz & Dr. Stephen Porges

  • Certificate of Completion: The Neuroscience of Change, Coaches Rising, Live Online Coach Training

  • Certificate of Completion: The Academy of Inner Science. Connect, Restore, Reclaim: 12 hours of live on-line training. Taught by Thomas Hubl, Author, Healing Collective Trauma A Process For Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds, and Dr. Richard Schwartz, Creator, Internal Family Systems

“Serving makes us aware of our wholeness and its power. The wholeness in us serves the wholeness in others and the wholeness in life.”

— Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D