🍂 Welcome to Finding Your Way 🍂
Post-Traumatic Growth & Resilience Coaching for Women
What if healing can begin with a simple pause?
A breath.
A hand to the heart. 💙
Healing isn’t about fixing ourselves — it’s about returning home to who we already are.
Here , you’ll be met with kind attention— offered in a way that helps you feel safe and seen.
I made this short video to give you a sense of the program.
You’re warmly invited to a free class on Wednesday, September 10— an introduction to Post-Traumatic Growth & Resilience Coaching for Women.
You’ll receive an overview of the program, experience gentle vagal toning practices to soothe the nervous system, and —most importantly—have space for connection, reflection, and grounding together.
🌸 Save Your Spot: Class is Live on Zoom. If you are not able to attend live, a recording will be sent.
🌱 From a participant:
“There aren't many people like Esther Brandon. She is kind, empathetic, and wise beyond belief. She is courageous and authentic, and it shows up in her coaching work. Highly recommend working with her." — Isabel
Blending Mindfulness and the Science of Healing
Drawing on mindfulness and the healing sciences, I offer practices, tools, and insights that support the nervous system’s natural return to safety and connection. These approaches can increase resilience and gently reconnect you with your sense of wholeness and well-being.
From my own trauma recovery, I’ve learned that combining mindful awareness with the science of healing can act like medicine for the nervous system—soothing and regulating in ways that allow healing to unfold. When we begin to feel safe enough, our bodies soften, our minds quiet, and our entire system—brain, heart, lungs, gut, and nervous system—can shift into a state where healing is possible.
🌱 “Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathic witness. “ Peter Levine, PhD.
What You Might Be Carrying
Everyone’s experience of trauma is different. You may notice yourself…
• Feeling both anxious and hopeful about what’s next
• Moving through waves of overwhelm or sensing the world isn’t always safe
• Not sure where or how to begin
• Feeling unsettled by small, everyday situations
• Longing to feel more at ease in your connections
An Invitation to Explore
In groups and in one-to-one sessions, you’ll be invited to explore four complementary elements, each supporting the others and creating a foundation for healing, growth, and connection:
• Mindfulness — invites us to pay attention—on purpose, in the present moment with non-judgement—with kindness and curiosity. By bringing mindful awareness to our experience, space for healing and growth begins to open.
Trauma-sensitive mindfulness adapts ancient and traditional mindfulness practices to support healing and growth for those who have experienced traumatic experiences or events.
• Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) — at its heart is integration—the coming together of what has been disconnected. Trauma may leave us feeling disconnected from parts of ourselves. Integration gently supports the brain, body, and heart in moving toward wholeness.
🌱 “Integration is kindness and compassion made visible.” — Dan Siegel
• Polyvagal Theory — offers science-informed practices that help the nervous system return to states of safety, groundedness, and connection.
🌱 “Notice the glimmers, moments that make us feel safe and calm.” — Deb Dana
• Self-Compassion — cultivates resilience. It’s offering yourself the warmth and understanding you’d naturally extend to a dear friend, creating a gentler way of meeting whatever arises.
Understanding Well-Being
These foundations support key aspects of post-traumatic growth in everyday life, offering gentle ways to experience:
• Safety & Regulation — learning simple ways to soothe the nervous system, increasing moments of ease and calm.
• Resilience — cultivating the ability to soothe and regulate the nervous system and be here and now with more ease, so there is less suffering and a greater ability, within less time, to recover from distress.
• Connection — reconnecting with the simple signals of your body and heart, and with others, in ways that feel safe.
• Growth — reconnecting with yourself—your strengths and wholeness— 🌱 at your own pace, in your own time.
🌱 “Resilience—cultivated through soothing and regulating the nervous system—can open more inner space. A space where post-traumatic growth can gently unfold.”
📚 If you would like to explore further, I invite you to visit my Resources Library.
Community can help hold what’s difficult to carry alone.
Healing often unfolds in connection.
As Rachel Naomi Remen reminds us, “We are all healers of each other. The reality is that healing happens between people.”
You’re invited to consider a free call.
It’s a space to ask questions, share what matters to you, and notice whether working together feels like a good fit.
A Window Into My Story
“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 Glimpse Into My Story
More than 35 years ago, a mindfulness workshop with Jon Kabat-Zinn shifted the course of my life. Over time, I deepened my practice, studying Jewish Mindfulness, other wisdom traditions, and trauma-informed science. These teachings helped me return to myself—my strengths and wholeness—and now I guide others on that same path.
My journey has also carried me through illness, grief, and early wounds of disconnection. Within those experiences, I reclaimed the seeds of resilience—compassion, courage, and a deep capacity for connection—that were part of me all along. Today, I walk with others who are navigating transition, loss, or trauma, supporting them as they rediscover their resilience and wholeness.
Perhaps this is a time of transition, and you may be wondering how to move forward with clarity and compassion;
Together, we’ll explore mindfulness, somatic practices, and trauma-informed science, supporting your reconnection with wholeness.
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The gift of healing trauma is that the woundedness becomes a gateway to freedom, healing and love.”
— Tara Brach
Art by Vicky Alvarez