🍁 Finding Your Way
Post-Traumatic Growth & Resilience Coaching for Women
During these uncertain and difficult times in our world, many of us are carrying so much.
For those who have experienced trauma — or who are living in a season of post-traumatic growth — our nervous systems may be especially tender. We may find ourselves managing states of hypervigilance or threat that have been present for a long while.
Together, we create a safe-enough space to resource yourself — gently nurturing your capacity to be with whatever is here, and softly knowing you are not alone. A space to reconnect with your wholeness, be met with kindness, and feel supported as you find your way.
Sessions are grounded in trauma-informed mindfulness and healing science — including Interpersonal Neurobiology and Polyvagal Theory, which compassionately invite us to “befriend the nervous system”— our work is shaped around what feels most important for you, at your pace, in your time. 🐢💛
“I’m grateful for Esther’s humanity and uniquely skilled guidance…most especially on those days when I am feeling, ‘ I don’t need this.! ‘ I’m learning to have more compassion for myself from her ability to listen and reflect my words back to me.
Being truly heard releases the built-up steam in my life. And now, I’m discovering a more fully integrated sense of self-awareness, understanding, and acceptance.” — Kathy
Pricing & Financial Accessibility
Individual sessions are currently offered at $100 per session.
If cost is a barrier, you’re welcome to reach out. Accessibility matters to me, and I’ll do my best to meet you where you are.
In this video, I share my journey of healing, guided by the combination of mindfulness and healing science. This path has deeply shaped my approach to coaching. While the introduction session I mention is no longer available, I invite you to connect with me for a one-on-one session, where we can explore how this approach can support you on your path.
My work weaves trauma-informed mindful awareness practice and healing science— including Interpersonal Neurobiology and Polyvagal Theory, which compassionately invittes us to “befriend our nervous system.” You’re warmly invited to visit these teachings in the Resource 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.”
If you’re curious to learn more, you’re welcome to schedule a free inquiry call.
It’s a gentle space to ask questions, begin to connect, and see whether working together feels like a good fit.
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 weaves mindfulness practice with the science of healing — including Interpersonal Neurobiology and Polyvagal Theory, with their compassionate invitation to befriend the nervous system.
Here, mindfulness is named as the ground: learning to be here with whatever is here, without needing it to be different. This way of being is offered within a trauma-informed container — one that offers tenderness, pacing, and the body’s need for safety.
I draw on mindfulness and the healing sciences to offer soft practices and grounded understanding that support the nervous system’s natural movement toward safety, connection and ease. Healing is not about fixing ourselves— it’s about restoring and reconnecting with who we already are.
Through my own trauma recovery, I learned how powerful it can be to hold mindful awareness together with an understanding of how the nervous system works. When these are woven together, they offer support that is soothing, regulating, and steadying — allowing healing to unfold at its own pace. I often think of this as medicine for the nervous system.
As we begin to feel safe-enough, the body softens. The mind quiets. And the whole system — brain, heart, breath, gut, and nervous system — can gently shift into states that support healing and growth.
“Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).”
—James Baraz
You may be noticing:
Feeling both anxious and quietly hopeful about what’s next
Waves of overwhelm, or a sense that the world doesn’t always feel safe
Uncertainty about where — or how — to begin
Feeling unsettled by small, everyday situations
Longing to feel more at ease in your body and in your connections
If any of this resonates, you’re not alone. I’ve felt this way too — and these are common, shared human experiences.
Trauma can shape the nervous system to react quickly as a way of protecting us. These instinctual responses are rooted in survival — even when they pull us away from ease, choice, or connection.
Gently noticing these protective reactions, and slowly shifting toward responding with more awareness in the present moment — in small ways, and at your own pace — can support healing and well-being. As something that feels tangled begins to open, space softens — making room for it to be seen differently, or in new ways.
If you’d like to explore the science and mindfulness practices that support nervous system regulation, resilience, and well-being, you’re warmly welcome to visit the Resource Library.
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
From my own trauma recovery, I learned how mindfully soothing and regulating the nervous system creates space — space to feel what we are feeling as it arises, and to become aware of it with kindness.
In that space, agency begins to return. Calm and curiosity become possible. And from there, happiness, purpose, and a sense of fulfillment can slowly re-emerge.
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 mindfulness, Jewish contemplative traditions, and trauma-informed healing science. These teachings supported my return to myself — to my strengths, my innate wholeness, and capacity for connection.
My journey has also carried me through waves of grief, fear, shame, illness, and early experiences of disconnection. To embrace the words of Tara Brach the woundedness gradually became my gateway to freedom, healing and love. Within those experiences, I reclaimed the seeds of resilience — compassion, courage, and a deep capacity for connection — qualities that are my inherent goodness and wholeness, even when they were clouded by trauma.
For the last several decades, I have continued to study and practice healing approaches that support this process — healing sciences that help us reconnect with ourselves and with our inherent goodness and wholeness.
Today, I walk alongside women navigating life transitions, loss, or trauma, supporting them as they gently rediscover their resilience and find their way.
Perhaps this is a time of transition for you, and you may be wondering how to move forward with clarity and self-compassion. Together, we explore mindfulness, somatic practices, and trauma-informed science, softly supporting your reconnection with yourself — at your own pace, in your own time.
Art by, Vicky Alvarez