Inviting Openness and Involvement

August 4, 2009

 Thank you again for kicking off the community Wellness Series at St. Joseph's Medical Center, Stockton, entitled "Know your Mind, Body and Spirit." You engaged all three (mind/body/spirit) throughout your talk. And more importantly every one of the 125 people in the audience was "engaged" in your presentation as you deftly moved from "abstract to concrete", from "head to heart." 

Your relaxed style that includes self disclosure and genuine empathy while speaking with the audience has a way of inviting openness and involvement. I have received feedback that a couple who had a recent loss of a son in Iraq plan on using some of your information and tools as a stepping stone towards their own grief recovery.

Again, thank you for your practical approach to looking at illness while providing avenues for self care and healing.

~ Jim Linderman, Coordinator, Support and Education, St. Joseph's Regional Cancer Center, Stockton  209-461-5069

From the Audience Members

Thank you – you had a logical progression of the healing process and I will take away from your presentation that love is the basis of our being. The affirmation of self-love will be very useful.

~ Bonnie Duncan

I found your information absolutely helpful and relevant to my needs especially the discussion of how negative thought energies affects one’s health.

~ Cheryl Neuenschwander

I thought the actual patients cases were very useful especially the MS patient. My nephew has MS. Thank you!

~ Rosemary Karsting

From your presentation, I have found a long lost way to heal and keep myself healthy. The connection between our MO and illness is very useful.

~ Amparo Colombus

I will now love myself more.

~ Doris Wilson

Interesting how the feeling/inside manifest outside through disease.

~ Deborah

I found your information extremely valuable — I loved hearing about our soul and healing from a nurse’s perspective.

~ Val Lee

Thank you for sharing your gift. You are a good speaker and your belief in and love for healing people comes out in your presentation.

~ Deb Tobinski

Your presentation was pleasant and interesting. I will use right away that the soul is the essence of the self.

~ Elma Mae Henderson

What an excellent informative presentation! I will be cognizant of my beliefs, my responses, myself-talk and mostly self-love. I now understand how beliefs can drive our genetics and we don’t have to be afraid of “its genetics”. But first we must take responsibility for our thinking and our beliefs. I will be getting Maureen’s book at my earliest opportunity.

~ Sofie Pettygrove

Your information was very helpful—I am recharged!

~ Michele Powell

I will be signing up for a session with Maureen and explore my own illnesses.

~ Judy Vivian

 Thought Provoking

Maureen Minnehan Jones certainly provoked thought and discussion after her presentation at our meeting of Marriage and Family Therapists. The information she presented regarding healing and body / mind connection was cutting edge, and we appreciated the fact that she has personally used these methods successfully.

Maureen's presentation style was comfortable and professional.  She was able to answer difficult, provocative questions with ease, providing knowledge and referrals.  Her frank discussion of personal experience enhanced the presentation.

Maureen's workshop allowed many of our practitioners to view the mental health services we provide from a new perspective. It encouraged us to seek alternative methods of healing so that we may assist our clients in moving forward with their lives.

We would happily invite Maureen back for an in-depth workshop in the future!

~ Lia Santucci, Central Valley Counseling

Unique and Useful

The information you presented was unique and useful. All of our participants came away from the program with a better understanding of guided imagery and how it can be used to treat the whole person and not just the disease or symptoms. Each person that participated in your program left with tools that could be used to improve their lives.

I have been a nurse for more than 25 years and have worked in both the hospital and as a health educator. The information you presented on guided imagery opens up a new door and fills the gaps that exist in our ability to cure and treat people with varying disorders and disease states. There would be a huge benefit to all concerned if this knowledge became available to health care practitioners in all fields.

Thank you again for presenting this information to our group. Your dedication, passion, and enthusiasm show through everything you do.

~ Susan Baggett, Oak Valley Hospital District

Empowering, Inspirational and Informative

Our ladies are still talking about what a difference it made.

We can now see much of what affects our health not only depends on the way you live your life but also the programming and how our emotions build in the body from our programming.

You made changes not only in their thinking of why and how disease is caused but there was a way to heal every disease without side effects.

Not only was your presentation empowering, inspirational and informative, it provided valuable ways for each of us to begin to immediately act.

~ Karen Milhok , American Assoication of University Women