Maria Phelps

Maria Phelps is an author, Reiki Master, meditation coach, spiritual life coach, and lifelong student of personal growth, healing, and the mind-body-spirit connection. Her work explores trauma, identity, forgiveness, spiritual awakening, personal transformation, relationships, and the patterns that shape who we become.

Drawing from lived experience, extensive coursework, and years of independent study, Maria writes for people who are ready to better understand their past, recognize patterns that may still be influencing their lives, and reconnect with parts of themselves they may have lost or buried along the way.

Her deeply personal memoir, I’m Just a Girl: Surviving the Life I Was Given, shares her journey from surviving circumstances she did not choose to becoming a woman determined to reclaim her voice, identity, and direction.

Maria has studied a wide range of psychological, personal-development, spiritual, and energy-based approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Brainspotting, hypnotherapy, meditation, EFT, neuroplasticity, holistic wellness, Reiki, Quantum Touch, Accunect, and life coaching. Her education across these areas, combined with extensive independent research, informs the perspective she brings to her writing and work with others.

Rather than approaching healing from a single philosophy, Maria explores the ways emotional experiences, beliefs, behavior patterns, spirituality, self-awareness, and physical well-being can intersect. Her books encourage readers to question old narratives, understand themselves more deeply, and make conscious choices about the lives they want to create.

Her growing collection of work examines childhood wounds, unhealthy relationship patterns, shadow work, forgiveness, identity, self-awareness, energy healing, holistic wellness, spirituality, and personal transformation. Her writing is direct, compassionate, and rooted in the understanding that meaningful change is rarely simple or linear.

At the heart of Maria’s work is a simple message: Your past may help explain who you became, but it does not have to decide who you become next.

Maria lives in Northern Pennsylvania, where she continues to write, study, create, and share what she has learned with others who are searching for greater understanding, healing, and connection with themselves.