About Me

Hi, I’m Rev. Maeba (MAY-ba) Jonas, a writer, interfaith chaplain and integration coach. I am also a certified clinical hypnotherapist, meditation instructor and somatic practitioner. I hold a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and I've spent more than two decades at the edges of grief, transition, and the search for meaning: as a campus chaplain, a hospital chaplain at a Level 1 trauma center, and now in private practice.

After the death of my mother from cancer, I left my career and took my health into my own hands. Trusting what my body was telling me, I chose to have preventive surgeries, a decision guided by intuition that kept cancer from taking hold. That experience taught me something I've built my whole practice around since: listening to your body and trusting your own intuition isn't just a nice idea. It can actually be learned.

I didn't get there by choosing one method and mastering it. I tried nearly everything: somatic practice, breathwork, contemplative traditions, the wisdom found across the world's religions. None of it worked because I followed it exactly as prescribed. It worked because I paid attention to what was actually happening in me and created a system of finding balance, no matter what life brings.

I call it The Four Tenets of Embodied Love.

Today, I help those move through transformational life events and experiences in a way that supports their system, integrates their learnings, and creates a balance that lasts.

I'm not handing you a framework and asking you to fit yourself into it. Together, you will learn to listen to your own inner compass, utilizing your body, your history, your beliefs, and help you find the wisdom that's already yours.

The good news? This wisdom remains regardless of which practice or tradition you started with and regardless of what life throws your way next.

Outside of work, 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.