🍃 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.
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—drawing on Interpersonal Neurobiology and Polyvagal Theory, which invite us to gently “befriend the nervous system.” Mindful awareness serves as a guide: softly being present —with kindness— with whatever arises, without the need to change it. This approach is held through a trauma-informed lens, which grounds you as you find your way toward feeling safe here, in the present moment.
Mindfulness and the healing sciences offer gentle practices and grounded understanding that support the nervous system’s natural movement toward safety, connection, and ease. Their combining creates soothing, regulating support—and healing can begin to unfold naturally.
Healing isn’t about fixing ourselves; it’s about coming home to who we already are.
“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 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
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.
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
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.
I came to understand that safety begins in the nervous system. When it settles, something tender becomes possible — not fixing ourselves, but gently reclaiming the parts that disconnected to protect us.
That understanding became the foundation of Finding Your Way — a space where healing softly becomes possible, in your own time, at your own pace.
Art by, Vicky Alvarez
Through my own trauma recovery, I came to understand that safety begins with the nervous system.
When it is soothed, settled, and supported, there is more space to reconnect with a solid, grounded sense of self —
like feeling the steady ground of the earth beneath your feet.
From this place of steadiness — softly tending, slowly settling — 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, in your own time.
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, in your own time, at your pace.
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.