Joy isn’t just something you feel–
It’s something you create.
Whether you want to attend an event, take action with kindness missions, or bring joy into your daily life with fun and inspiring tools, here’s how you can experience merriment in the real world.
Operation Merriment (Event)
→ A hands-on experience where you create and spread guerrilla art to spark joy and kindness in unexpected places.
Book: “This Is About You”
→ A bold, no-nonsense guide to self-love, joy, and radical self-acceptance, packed with creative exercises and real talk.
Merriment Missions Deck
→ A colorful deck of 111 joy-spreading challenges designed to spark kindness, adventure, and everyday magic in your life.
Self-Love Workbook: Hands-On Roadmap to Confidence
→ A vibrant, interactive workbook designed to help you break free from self-doubt, reconnect with creativity, and build confidence.
Shop All Things Merriment
→ Stickers, magnets, postcards, glitter pills, ribbons, goody bags, and more—fun, whimsical treasures to spark joy in your everyday life.
Which one calls to you? Whether you want to attend an event, take action, or bring joy home, you’ll find something here that makes life a little brighter.
Start Small & Feel Better Fast
Quick, uplifting solutions for immediate relief
Go Deeper Into Your Joy
Self-paced, structured programs for YOU
Fully Immerse Yourself
Ongoing support & personalized transformation
Experience Joy in the Real World
Live experiences, connection, and tangible joy tools
Testimonials
Jenn M., EdD, LPC
“I am mental health counselor myself and have used various therapists throughout my life. I have had the most growth while working with Mary.
Mary stands out from my previous therapists because she uses her own carefully curated coaching style that allows her coach in more dynamic ways than some of the other cookie cutter therapy styles out there.
Throughout our work, Mary has used a good balance between solution-focused and cognitive-behavioral approaches that she skillfully blends with trauma-informed interventions.
Unlike my previous therapists, Mary has gone above and beyond in helping me find and collect resources for my healing, including informed articles, exercises and techniques, writing prompts, action plans, etc. I highly recommend Mary to others for coaching needs.”
Blair I.
You were amazing yesterday.
I told my friend you read me like a book. Which I loved!
I’m so happy to be coaching with you.
Amy, MA LPC LCMHC
“I followed Uncustomary ~ her books and classes ~ before I began coaching with her. I’m so grateful I took the dive to get the personalized support from her! Uncustomary has so much experience, insight and wisdom.
Working with her has really helped me accomplish a long-held dream. Honestly, I didn’t know that what I wanted to create was really possible. But she helped me vision, break down the steps and create a course I’ve been only thinking about forever!
I highly recommend her as a coach for your personal life, business, passion project! I’m going to keep working with her!!”
Lisa
“In the moments after I signed up for a 1:1 coaching call with Mary, I thought what in the heck was I doing?? Would I be wasting her time? Would I be able to get anything from it? Would it just be a bunch of unhelpful advice? Would she be able to see my messy apartment? Within 5 seconds of her reaching out to me before our session, I realized all of my fears were for naught.
Mary was so incredibly helpful – she asked questions that helped her understanding my major issue straight away, worked with me to help boil it down to the basic focus point, and best of all, gave me ample resources so I could start working on things from this end. With kindness and grace, she held my hand and gave me a loving kick in the rear to do the work. If you have the chance to do a 1:1 coaching call, please take advantage of it. It’s really worth it!”
Sana A.
“I am so so happy that I talked to you and while we were talking, I was feeling that you are touching every depth and corner of my heart and were healing it, making it feel heard and loved. I got clarity on what aspects I need to work on. I was confused a lot before that, and that was a reason holding me back.
I am so thankful that you chose the thing I feel is troubling me the most right now and I too was eagerly wanting to talk about. Now I know that I need to change my behaviours, and also in what ways.
Thank you for coming into changing my life in such a way that I never had expected. And I love that you gave me so many resources. It’s a thing that very few people do. And I didn’t expect that in such a short amount of time, you will go in such depth.”
Maureen + Kathleen O.
“Sometimes you just gotta stop, twirl, dance and embrace your own awesomeness. And that’s what you gave Kathleen the freedom and opportunity to do! Thank you for coming to our home so prepared with happiness tips and a binder full of specific resources, tools and reminders of ways that Kathleen is awesome–all in a setting of balloons, confetti, tiaras, ribbons, music and banners.
We both LOVED your cool ideas of little things to do around town. Who knew our neighbor was so chock full of great, easy breezy places to go for fun? Not me! You have no idea what one Happy Hour with all the accouterments did for my sister AND for me! We are so doing this again! Count on it. Everyone and anyone who would like to cheer someone up — or cheer themselves up — should book Mary NOW. She’s a true professional and a true badass bringer of joy, color and happiness.”
Brennon
“I have been an Uncustomary subscriber for over a year now. I appreciate the inspiration, blog posts, and the opportunity for the free e-courses. This time, Mary offered the opportunity for a 1:1 call and I made sure to take her up on it. Our discussion focused on Body Image as I’m working through some weight gain. She was very encouraging and informative and provided great resources in a follow up email.”
April A.
“Mary is super knowledgeable about various subjects and gives very practical advice.
The recap email is a great bonus and she provides so many resources to learn more about the issues you are experiencing.
Sometimes it’s great to just talk with a nuetral third party that has a listening ear and compassion to share and Mary is an excellent person to talk to. I’m excited about getting started on my homework.”
Jackie E.
“Mary’s 1:1 coaching is very insightful and helpful. I didn’t know what to expect coming into it, but the amount of work Mary put into preparing to talk to me made the coaching easy on my part.
Once the call was over, she followed up with a list of things for me to do and a recap of everything she had talked about in an email that I can reference whenever I need, and this makes setting goals and changing my perspectives easier. All in all she was great!”