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Hi, I’m JoAnne,

I’m a registered nurse, author, filmmaker and healing retreat leader dedicated to helping you identify and heal the thorny emotional and physical issues that are holding you back from a vibrant, full, creative and joy-filled life.

Want to find out where your relationship struggles and anxiety are coming from and how to change those patterns?

We will do that.

Feel a deep need to get away to a nourishing, welcoming and safe place to restore your balance and get a fresh start on your life?

Our healing, restorative retreats have you covered.

Need easy-to-understand information about the healing process and how it can happen for you, now? That is my specialty.

Ready to take that first step in your journey to wholeness and health?

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Books

JoAnne’s book, Please Help Me Die Well guides nurses on a sacred journey through the world of a dying person and how to meet their unique needs. It gently reveals the seven crucial promises that you as a nurse must make (and keep) to your end-of-life patients if they are to make the journey through their final days with peace and comfort. Full of grace, compassion, and deep insight, this book will change the way you view your dying patients forever.

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I have known JoAnne Chitwood RN, for more than thirty years. I first witnessed her work as a Hospice nurse bringing emotional healing to both patients and family members. JoAnne developed a training course for Hospice staff and for individuals suffering loss of various types. This material has since been used around the world.

A few years ago, while I was pastoring a thirteen-hundred-member church, JoAnne presented her program to the entire congregation over a several month period of time. JoAnne’s effective teaching style was fresh and engaging with every presentation and the attendance grew as she reached people of every generation, gender, age, and background, including those with PTSD trauma. I highly recommend her program.

Scott A. LeMert
Retired pastor

I have known JoAnne for over 25 years, and have had the privilege to work alongside her facilitating grief workshops, teaching and counseling. Each time we work together, I come away with a new understanding. JoAnne has faced her own family conflicts, rejection, tragedies, and profound healing. As she teaches, JoAnne is open and shares her own life struggles and her road of growth and healing. Her ability to share her knowledge of trauma and grief is a gift for those who spend time with her growing, learning and healing.

Vonda Winkle, MSW
Clinical Therapy Specialist

I grew up in an abusive home and, as a result, had a very low self-worth. As I attended JoAnne’s workshops and groups, I learned coping skills, acceptance and how to let go of the past and heal. I found the courage to stop dying and start living. I learned to heal and trust and grow.

When my children were younger, I attended a local class that JoAnne was teaching. I came home after each class and taught my kids the life-changing tools I was learning. My children learned how to use these tools too and how to make great life choices. They became leaders, teaching their peers by example. And now, all have great careers. I’m thankful to JoAnne for sharing hope and life skills with all of us so that we can find the freedom to find a life worth living.

Julie Perry
client

I have known JoAnne for over 25 years, and have had the privilege to work alongside her facilitating grief workshops, teaching and counseling. Each time we work together, I come away with a new understanding. JoAnne has faced her own family conflicts, rejection, tragedies, and profound healing. As she teaches, JoAnne is open and shares her own life struggles and her road of growth and healing. Her ability to share her knowledge of trauma and grief is a gift for those who spend time with her growing, learning and healing.

Vonda Winkle, MSW
Clinical Therapy Specialist

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HEALING RETREATS

Up for a truly life-altering, deep-dive into a healing experience like no other? Join my Journey of the Heart retreat.

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1-ON-1 COACHING

Join me online for a time of rich, focused, personal instruction in the healing process. Let the journey begin!

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