REV MAEBA JONAS, M.DIV.


About Me

The door you've been looking for opens from the inside

For over a decade, I sat with people at the hardest moments of their lives — in hospital rooms, in prisons, on college campuses, in the quiet spaces where people finally say the things they've never said out loud. As an interfaith chaplain, that was my calling. I was good at it.

Then my mother died.

In the year that followed, I realized I had spent so long accompanying others through their thresholds that I had never learned to cross my own. I was exhausted, disconnected, and running on a kind of borrowed purpose that had quietly run out.

I listened to something I had been ignoring for years. I left my career. I made a decision to take control of my health. And I followed a path that my doctors confirmed saved my life.

What I learned in that threshold — and what I now teach — is that the body already knows. Your intuition is not a mystical gift reserved for certain people. It is a skill. It can be learned. And learning it changes everything.

I created The Sacred Compass framework and the Feel It Till You Heal It workshop series and the writing that became a community on Substack to give people the tools I wish I'd had sooner — a way to use their own body as a compass, to tell the difference between fear and intuition, and to finally cross the threshold into a life that is waiting on the other side.

Trainings & Certifications:

  • Ordained Interfaith Chaplain (Master of Divinity, Yale University)

  • Gottman Couples Therapy Method - Level II (The Gottman Institute)

  • Somatic Retreat Leader (Shalom Mountain Retreat Center)

  • Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (American School of Hypnosis)

  • Certified Meditation Instructor (Mindfulness Institute for Emerging Adults)

  • Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher (RYT - 200h)

  • Certified Mediator (Baltimore Mediation)

Ready to Begin?

If my approach resonates with you, I'd be honored to walk alongside you on your healing journey.

Explore my services to see what might be the right fit for you.