Psychologically grounded mental health tools + support
taught with creativity, humor, and real life in mind.
for 🫠 burned out 🎨 creatively inclined 🍌 silly weirdos
Plus playful communities 🤸🏻♀️ + 🪧 interactive public art opportunities in 📍 Baltimore
If you’re neurodivergent, sensitive, creative, worn down, quietly hopeful, allergic to beige self-help …
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 just tired.
A lot of advice feels surface level, 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, reconnecting to yourself, and remembering how to play.
It’s where you go when you want:
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tools that actually help on hard days
- emotional skills you wish you were taught in school
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joy that isn’t performative or forced
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practices that work with real energy levels
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permission to be tender, capable, angry, creative, weird, and human
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a place where growth feels steady instead of overwhelming
What makes this different
I don’t teach this from a distant “theory”.
I teach it while doing it with you.
This work is psychologically grounded and fact-checked.
It’s also playful, absurd, creative, and deeply human.
I care about science and bubbles. Data and glitter. Nervous systems and joy.
My approach isn’t “optimize your mindset” or “just push through.”
It’s closer to David Lynch talking to you at 3 AM in a diner.
Strange, honest. A little funny. Surprisingly grounding.
I use creativity, humor, metaphor, and play because they lower defenses.
They make it safer to feel. Safer to tell the truth. Safer to try again.
That’s why this works for people who’ve tried other things.
People who are under a 5 out of 10 on that scale their measuring.
People who are doing okay but want to feel more alive.
People who are exhausted, weird, sensitive, misunderstood, or creatively inclined.
Feeling good here isn’t frivolous.
It’s the first step.
From there, people make things. Build friendships. Try again. Speak up. Create art. Set boundaries. Do small, real acts of kindness in the world.
Feeling good → making good → doing good.
That’s the throughline.
Positive Pulse is one part of that method.
It’s where people start remembering who they are.
Inside You’ll Find
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psychologically grounded resources + courses (emotions, nervous system, habits, meaning, self-trust)
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audio support for low-energy or high-stress days
- somatic and creative practices that reconnect you to yourself
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creative prompts and rituals
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community spaces that don’t require oversharing, hustle, or fixing
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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.
What people say after they’re inside:
Testimonial
“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.
Meet Mary!
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.