Maureen Redl
Therapist, Founder
Voices of Healing
PO Box 522
Corte Madera, CA 94976
415-847-7068

MAUREEN REDL
VOICES OF HEALING
maureenredl@mac.com

BIOGRAPHY
Though she’s lived in California for more than 20 years, Maureen Redl still calls Minnesota the home of her heart. She recalls life in Marine-on-St. Croix in the 60’s as an ideal place for raising children, horses and dogs. In the early 70’s, Maureen taught Health Care Psychology at the University of Minnesota’s Medical School, then left academia to sail half way around the world. She moved to San Francisco, and established a successful psychotherapy practice particularly with people in recovery from addictions. Life was good.

It changed dramatically however when she was diagnosed with metastatic ovarian cancer in 1989. She began a year of aggressive physical treatments combined with deep, inner work of psyche and soul. Through many transformative experiences of consciousness shifting and reality expanding, she’s come to a deep certainty that innate healing ability exists universally in each of us, and that the purpose of serious illness may be to evoke our higher potential. Deeply grateful and cancer-free for fourteen years, Maureen founded Voices of Healing, a non-profit organization with Story Circles through which people “share the healing, hope and possibilities” within the challenges and opportunities of serious illness.

She believes Voices of Healing can reduce the fear of cancer and improve its outcome just as AA created the potential of recovery for alcoholics. Her fervent hope is that one day Story Circles with their Healing Guidelines will become as common as 12 Step meetings are today. She is writing a book, "Terrible Gifts and Savage Grace" about her experiences and the healing process.

ARTICLES/BOOKS
Healing Through Story: In the Crisis Hides the Opportunity

WHAT GETS YOU UP IN THE MORNING?
"The paradoxical process of transforming the challenging experiences of life and illness into opportunities for becoming our potential Selves. Each person's own Inner Healer and Inner Storyteller will bring wisdom, healing stories and myths to help us in the process. Maureen listens and pays homage daily to these aspects of unfolding consciousness in her own life."