Finding Your Way Home
A Post-Traumatic Growth Coaching Path For Women
Through Mindful Awareness and the Science of Healing
I guide women from surviving to thriving — through Post-Traumatic Growth, illness, and major life transitions. Through my own healing and recovery, I learned the wisdom of interweaving mindful awareness with the science of healing. Together they became medicine for my nervous system💛
My healing journey gradually taught me that safety begins in the nervous system, and that healing is less about fixing ourselves and more about softly reconnecting with who we already are.
“She has a profound ability to make you feel seen and heard, even amidst great struggle.”
— Isabel Mata, Writer and Mindfulness teacher
“Being truly heard by Esther releases the built-up steam in my life.”
Even on the days I feel 'I don't need this,' her humanity and uniquely skilled guidance help me find more compassion for myself — and I'm discovering a more fully integrated sense of self-awareness, understanding, and acceptance."
— Kathy, Finding Your Way client
"Befriending Your Nervous System"
A phrase I learned from Deb Dana
An invitation to a Vagal Toning Practice
When our nervous system becomes activated, we can feel anxious, unsettled, or overwhelmed. Softly experiential practices can invite it toward greater calm, steadiness, and ease.
Over the past six years, as I've continued recovering my ability to walk after a traumatic brain injury, I've learned to heal from the inside out—and little by little, my brain, nervous system, and steps have grown stronger and steadier. I'd love to share some of these practices with you.
Together, we'll explore simple ways to settle the nervous system—mindful breathing, soft movement, and simple ways of using our senses—opening space for a little more ease in everyday life.
This is a softly experiential 75-minute session exploring somatic practices, mindful awareness, and practical maps from the healing sciences.
Upcoming Session
Thursday, July 23, 2026
11:00 AM–12:15 PM ET
Online via Zoom
Fee: $25
If cost is a concern, please reach out.
A soothing breath practice I often return to when I need to settle and reground. 💛
Left-Nostril Breathing
1. Settle.
Find a comfortable seat or stand with your feet resting on the floor or earth.
2. Find a soft anchor.
Rest your attention on your breath. If that doesn't feel like the right place today, let your hands, your feet, or something pleasant you can see become your anchor.
3. Breathe.
Softly close your right nostril with your thumb or a finger. Breathe in through your left nostril. Slowly exhale through your left nostril. Continue for two or three gentle breaths, or simply pause whenever that feels like enough.
4. Pause and notice.
Take a moment to notice what is here. Warmth. Coolness. Tingling. Softening. Or perhaps no particular sensation at all. There is nothing to fix—only noticing with kind attention.
5. Carry it with you.
Perhaps you'll remember this practice while waiting in line, before an appointment, or during a busy day. Even two or three breaths can open a little more space to rest.
And sometimes, little by little, that's where the nervous system begins to settle.
Finding Your Way Home
A Post-Traumatic Growth Coaching Pathway for Women
Over the past few weeks, four simple symbols have quietly been speaking to me. They arrived as soft waves of intuitive thought — 💛 → 🐢 → 🏃🏽♀️ → 🏡
💛 Heart
To begin with kind attention—not about fixing ourselves, but softly meeting ourselves with kindness and, when we feel safe enough, receiving kind attention from another. As Dan Siegel often says, "Integration made visible is kindness and compassion." Those words have quietly stayed with me for a long time. This is where my own journey begins too: learning to meet myself with kindness, drop by drop.
🐢 Turtle
Noticing and moving at our own pace. The turtle represents listening to the wisdom of your nervous system—its pace, its rhythm—and beginning where we are. For me, this has meant learning to listen to the wisdom of my own nervous system.
🏃🏽♀️ Movement
When enough safety and steadiness grow, movement becomes possible. It arises naturally from a softly growing sense of agency—step by step, the next step becomes clearer. Movement is not the intention; it is the expression of a system that has enough safety and resource to move. In my own life, this has looked like movement returning—physically, emotionally, spiritually, and in meaning-making.
🏡 Home
Finding your way home. Reclaiming. Returning. Reconnecting with yourself. This is where I find myself now—with a clearer sense of home.
The sequence tells its own story: the heart offers courage, the turtle establishes rhythm, movement carries us forward, and home is where we reclaim our sense of safety and belonging. Little by little, finding our way home.
We'll explore mindfulness, breathwork, somatic practices, and practical maps grounded in the science of healing that you can easily bring into everyday life to cultivate greater steadiness, presence, and ease.
“The gift of healing trauma is that the woundedness becomes a gateway to freedom, healing and love.”
— Tara Brach
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 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.