If your life
looks fine
but feels empty...
I help people who are impressive on paper and quietly underwhelmed by their own life reconnect with the weird, curious, alive version of themselves that got buried under all that functionality.
You might be in the right place if…
Everything is technically fine.
And somehow that makes it worse.
You’ve done the therapy. You know your patterns. You’re self-aware enough to be exhausting to yourself. But somewhere along the way you stopped actually living and started just managing.
Everything is technically fine. And somehow that makes it worse.
How it works
A psychologically grounded framework for getting back to feeling alive; built from lived experience + science, not tote bag slogans.
The origin story
I didn’t plan any of this.
For a long time I was what I called a walking symptom. Managing a brain and body that seemed designed to make everything harder... dozens of diagnoses, substances, self-harm, dating professional con men... the kind of darkness that belongs in a movie, not a life. I wasn’t living. I wasn't even surviving.
Getting out of that required the hardest work I’ve ever done. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) was one of the top three most difficult experiences of my life... and I’ve had a life full of difficult experiences. But I did it.
So I thought about what I was going to do with all that space and my body told me: create. Remember that shoebox under your bed as a kid? Full of pom poms, pipe cleaners, glitter, and stickers? Make one of those again. Stop waiting for a fancy enough day to celebrate. It’s now.
So I went outside and yarn-bombed a pole.
The famous yarnbomb. Where it all started.
A younger Mary, mid-yarn-bomb. The beginning.
I entered a street art contest and felt more like myself than I had in years sitting on that curb, amateurly stitching up a yarnbomb. I kept going. I was documenting the art, the experiments, the weird little joy missions on a blog. I wasn’t calling it self-love yet. I was just finally doing things that felt like me.
And then the emails started. People asking how they could find their way back to feeling alive like I had. That’s when I realized I hadn’t just found my way back. I’d accidentally mapped the route.
That map became The Merriment Method. The route back to yourself is usually something you loved before the world told you to grow up. Mine was a yarn bomb. Yours might be something else entirely. Let’s find it.
Find your door
There’s no right order. Pick the entry point that matches where you are right now.
A community for the successfully unhinged.
- 280+ psychologically grounded resources
- Community feed, live check-ins & EFT sessions
- Inspirational hotline
- Merriment AI - your custom whimsy coach
- Member-only events & discounts
- New content added every week
The complete system. 2,000+ resources. The whole map.
- Full Feel Good → Create Good → Do Good framework
- All 9 MERRIMENT pillars
- 1,500+ tools: pep talks, EFT, workshops, challenges
- 90+ guerrilla kindness missions
- Self-Love 101: Mary’s signature course
- The Merriment Making e-book: Mary’s 2nd published book
- Three best-selling e-courses + all archived experiences over 10 years
1:1 with Mary. A Fun Philosopher beside you.
- Weekly 60–75 min. 1:1 sessions with Mary directly
- Unlimited voice & text support between sessions
- Custom joy experiments & personalized rituals
- Identity mapping, nervous system & somatic support
- Deep personal transformation. Creative + life direction.
available
Joy that happens outside your screen.
🚪 Door Whimsy
Commissioned surprise installations for people you love. Birthdays, milestones, just because.
✨ Operation Merriment
Live events where we make something together and take it into the world.
🎤 Speaking
Keynotes on joy, absurdism, mortality awareness, and reconnecting with your weirdness.
What people say
You’re becoming a
Merriment Maker 🌈
When you feel good, it’s so much easier to do good. We need Merriment Makers from all walks of life.
The Merriment Maker
Mary England
Psychology-informed Fun Philosopher, public artist & professional weirdo
I’m a Baltimore-based creator with a psychology background who helps burned out, sensitive, creatively inclined humans break autopilot and feel like themselves again.
After years of rebuilding myself through creativity, humor, and the radical idea that joy is a serious tool... not a frivolous one. I started making the resources I wish had existed for me. This work is psychologically grounded, fact-checked, and also completely unafraid of absurdity.
I care about science and bubbles. Data and glitter. Nervous systems and banana phones. My approach isn’t “optimize your mindset... it’s closer to David Lynch talking to you at 3 AM in a diner. Strange, honest, a little funny, and surprisingly grounding.
Ready?
Too smart for easy answers.
Too tired to pretend
everything is fine.
You’ve found the right place. Pick a door and let’s figure out the rest together.