Hi!

Hi, I’m Mary.

I help people feel more like themselves again.

I don’t do it overnight. And I don’t pretend grief, anger, fear, illness, exhaustion, and survival instincts are detours or mistakes.

I work with people who have been living on autopilot. Sometimes it’s because of trauma. Sometimes neurodivergence. Sometimes because life kept asking you for more than you could give at the time.

I teach what I’ve had to learn the hard way. How to feel again. How to trust your body‘s signals. How to work with your emotions instead of shoving them down, avoiding, disconnecting, and convincing yourself you’re “fine“. How to build a life that actually fits the brain and body you have.

This is psychologically informed, deeply practical work. It’s been shaped by decades of study, teaching, and being inside the mess myself. Not one big turning point. Many restarts.
Progress, collapse, rebuilding, repeat.

When I talk about merriment, joy, and feeling good, I’m talking about direction. These are signals that you’re reconnecting to yourself and the world.

They tend to show up as a response. A lovely side effect when you’re no longer bracing for impact just to exist. Of feeling safer, more honest, and more relief.

And I promise you, nothing is ever forced.

If you’ve had moments where you think,

“I don’t feel like myself lately,”
and then immediately brush it off because life is busy and you’re “handling” it…

You don’t feel quite like yourself anymore.
You know you’re “supposed” to be grateful, but mostly you’re tired.

A lot of advice feels thin, or like it was written for someone with a completely different life.
You want more than “functioning“.
And you’re carrying things that don’t have an obvious place to go…

There’s nothing wrong with you for feeling this way.
It’s what happens when you’ve had to disconnect in order to get through.

What happens next is learning how to reconnect.

What Is The Positive Pulse?

Positive Pulse is a living library and community for getting off autopilot

It’s where you go when you want:

• tools that actually help on hard days

• emotional skills you wish you were taught in school

• joy that isn’t performative or forced

• practices that work with real energy levels

• permission to be tender, capable, angry, creative, weird, and human

• a place where growth feels steady instead of overwhelming

Inside You’ll Find

• psychologically grounded resources + courses (emotions, nervous system, habits, meaning, self-trust)

• audio support for low-energy or high-stress days

• somatic and creative practices that reconnect you to yourself

• creative prompts and rituals

• community spaces that don’t require oversharing, hustle, or fixing

• small invitations to participate in life again, at your own pace

You don’t become someone new here.
You remember, trust, and come back to who you already are.

“Within the first week, I learned real self-care and new mental health techniques that are already helping my anxiety and depression day to day.” — Lorraine

“If you have ADHD, Positive Pulse fits how your brain works—drop in when you need inspiration, joy, or creativity. No pressure. Just support that fits real life.” — Alanna

“Moving slowly through your program, I started to cry. I’m beyond thrilled to know you’re out there. The world needs you.” — Brandy

Under a dollar.
Self-paced.
Leave anytime.
No fixing required.

I’m a Baltimore-based Merriment Maker and psychology-trained guide. I’ve spent years studying, teaching, and living inside the question of what actually helps people feel like themselves again.

Positive Pulse grew out of my own experience with mental illness, recovery, creativity, and a pattern I kept seeing over and over.

People aren’t lacking discipline or motivation.
They need environments that make it easier to be honest, present, and human.

My work is shaped by psychology, lived experience, somatic practice, and more than a decade of teaching thousands of people how to reconnect with themselves in ways that actually last.

This isn’t something I figured out once and moved on from.
It’s work I’m still doing, learning from, and refining in real time.

You’re invited if it feels right.