🍃 Finding Your Way
Post-Traumatic Growth & Resilience Coaching for Women
Finding Your Way offers a safe-enough space —
where your nervous system may begin to settle and soften.
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
and make room to reconnect with yourself,
in your own time, at your pace
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.
What a session may include:
A safe-enough space grounded in trauma-informed mindfulness and healing science, where you are seen with kindness and care. Through gentle mindful awareness and nervous-system–supportive practices, your body is invited to soften, settle, and find steadier ground as you tend the wounded places, notice your strengths and brave steps forward, and find your way — in your own time, at your pace..
If you are interested in learning more, you’re warmly invited to email me or schedule a free Inquiry Call. Once you're on the page, you can read more about the Inquiry Call and decide if it feels like the right next step for you.
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 e explore the resources here at your own pace.
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.
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 learning to be 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.
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.
If you’d like to explore the science and mindfulness practices that cultivate resilience, nervous system regulation, and well-being, I warmly invite you 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 inner 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.
The gift of healing trauma is that the woundedness becomes a gateway to freedom, healing and love.”
— Tara Brach
Art by, Vicky Alvarez