About Me

Hi, I’m Maeba (MAY-ba) — an ordained interfaith chaplain, certified clinical hypnotherapist, and somatic practitioner. I hold a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and I’ve spent more than a decade at the edges of grief, transition, and transformational work: as a college chaplain, with clinical training at a Level 1 hospital, and now in private practice.

I rose through higher education to acting associate vice president before I left, so I’ve also sat where many of my clients sit, at the decision-making table, holding what can’t be said out loud.

After my mother died of cancer, I took my health into my own hands. Trusting what my body was telling me, I chose preventive surgery — and the surgeons found cancer anyway. That taught me something I’ve built my whole practice around, listening on a deeper level to what your body and your soul need is the most important spiritual practice you can master.

I call it The Four Tenets of Embodied Love — Self, Beloveds, Community, and the World. It grew out of the Principles and Skills of Loving developed by my mentor, Gerald J. Jud, a lineage of embodied practice refined over fifty years. I’ve expanded it to hold the full territory of a leader’s life.

Together, you learn to listen to your own inner compass — your body, your history, your beliefs — and find the wisdom that’s already yours.

Today, that work is Sacred Compass Leadership Training — embodied leadership formation for pastors, founders, executive directors, and organizers building communities that thrive. Instead of self-help, I like to think of it as formation, because you can’t build for your people what you haven’t yet built in yourself.

I live near Baltimore with my husband, our two kids, and our red heeler, Bingo. I write about grief, motherhood, and the sacred in ordinary life at Feel It Till You Heal It on Substack.