Living Fully Alive

Most of us were not taught how to be in our bodies. To express what we were feeling from the inside out. Or see our sensations as a guide towards greater wisdom, insight and intuition. No, we were mos...

Whether you consider yourself a people pleaser or peacemaker or just can't stomach the idea of a hard conversation - you might be a conflict avoider. Maybe you find yourself making jokes when difficul...

How vital is your life force energy? Do you know what drains your energy? Do you know what charges you up? Do you know when your energy is the highest, and when it is the lowest? Do you honor your nat...

Ever feel like you are rushing to get to the finish line? How often are you fantasizing about your happiness being somewhere in the future? How frequently do you wake up thinking you should be further...

Have you banished parts of yourself? Most of us have parts of ourselves that we believe are unworthy, shameful, unlovable, and just not okay. We all have parts of ourselves that we reject and ultimate...

Happy New Year! The "New Year, New You" energy is in the air! And with it comes a lot of pressure to hurry up and get moving. But we don't have to buy into the New Year hype. There is a different way ...

One of my favorite embodiment tools I use with my coaching clients and teach in all my retreats and workshops is something called the "Body Compass." This is a "somatic" tool, meaning its wisdom is fo...

The holiday season is officially here! For many people the holiday season has looked different the last few years. There is a deep longing to return to our normal traditions and normal patterns during...

Just like in nature, our lives go through different seasons. Think about Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter and consider how your own life might mimic the changes we feel as the seasons shift. If we tru...

What does "success" mean to you? Most of us have a blueprint given to us from our family of origin or society about what success means. Very rarely is our idea of success defined by what we actually w...

Join me and my friend Dr. Rob Murray on this episode as we talk about ghosting. Have you ever been ghosted? Or maybe you are a ghoster? It has become common in our culture to manage our fear and anxie...

No one ever tells you that this process is going to be hard. Creating a new life is going to cost you your old one. That dismantling can be painful. But there is hope in the process. However, we can't...

It's human to want to avoid pain. We often find ways to avoid loneliness, sadness, anger, grief, heartbreak… because these emotions leave us exposed and vulnerable. But just like joy, happiness, pleas...

The journey of self development usually starts with mindset work. We first learn how to shift our thinking and create more empowering beliefs. But that's just the 1st layer. There is a deeper layer th...

The word "alignment" has been showing up a lot for me recently. The word itself gets thrown around A LOT. But what does it really mean to live your life in alignment? The only way to be in alignment i...

It feels so good to be back with you after spending the past several months recalibrating and processing the last couple of years.  And last week in a coaching session, my client had a major breakthro...

Join Mary and her best friend Lindsley Brooks as they dig in deeper to talk about spiritual bypassing. When we experience emotions that feel "too big" or "too painful" we tend to find all kinds of cov...

Join Mary and her former part time co-host and best friend, Lindsley Brooks as they dig into how emotional intelligence affects your interpersonal relationships. We all learned in our childhoods emoti...

Join Mary and her very special guest, Elizabeth A. Stanley, PhD. Liz is a professor of security studies at Georgetown University. She speaks, teaches, and writes widely on a variety of topics related ...

Join Mary as she offers the second of several guided meditations in Season 3. As you tune in to the regular episodes and learn more about your emotions and feelings, it's important to slow down to int...

Join Mary and her very special guest, Tracy Principi. Tracy is trained in Somatic Experiencing and Somatic Internal Family Systems helping men and women navigate childhood wounds and addressing family...

Join Mary and her very special guest, Robert Murray. Hailing from Cape Town, South Africa, Rob graduated from Stellenbosch University before moving to the United States in 2002. His professional journ...

Join Mary as she offers the first of several guided meditations in Season 3. As you tune in to the regular episodes and learn more about your emotions and feelings, it's important to slow down to inte...

Most of us were taught that there were "good" emotions and "bad" emotions. Some were sanctioned and some were not. And so we walk around thinking that if we feel the "bad" emotions, we are weak or cra...

Join Mary as she kicks off the 3rd Season of Living Fully Alive podcast! We are going to spend Season 3 talking about emotions. There are A LOT of emotions right now. All you have to do is hop on soci...

Here's your first preview of my upcoming mini-series Feel to Heal. Season 3 with 8 episodes + a few bonus guided meditations is launching on Thursday (9/16/21)....

Mary concludes this month's theme of Body Wisdom and Season 2 of the podcast before coming back in September with Season 3 with her dear friend and expert Dr. Christopher Motley.  Dr. Motley is a holi...

Join Mary and her very special guest, Emily A Francis! Emily is a highly sought-after speaker, author, and wellness expert with vast education and experience. In this episode Mary and Emily talk about...

Join Mary and her very special guest, Ally Wise! Ally is a Trauma-Informed Life Transformation Coach, the founder of The Reconnection Process and the soon-to-come online platform Awakened Life and Lea...

Join Mary and her part time co-host, Lindsley Brooks, as they talk about the power that we have when we learn to listen to our energetic body. Each of us puts off a unique energy or aura. This is scie...

Join Mary as kicks off this month's topic, Body Wisdom. We are all born with an innate connection to our bodies. Somewhere along the way, most of us lose that connection. As babies we are born with th...

Join Mary as she wraps up this month's topic of Self Sabotage. We wanted to wrap up the month with some practical ways to get through self sabotage. Self sabotage will likely be a recurring theme thro...

Join Mary and her part-time cohost, Lindsley Brooks, as they discuss the importance of building integrity with yourself. Self integrity and self worth go hand in hand with one another. When we don't f...

Join Mary and her guest Daniel Mangena. After grappling with suicidal thoughts in his early 20's and multiple failed business endeavors, Daniel eventually turned adversities into empowerment, creating...

Join Mary as she kicks off this month's topic, Self Sabotage. Our conscious self often has great goals and desires. We want healthy bodies. Strong secure relationships. Thriving careers. But what happ...

Join Mary and her guest Jake Kauffman as they wrap up this month's topic of Core Wounds. Jake is a High Performance Coach & Business Mentor. As a former healthcare sales executive, Jake knew that his ...

Join Mary and her guest and assistant, Liz Eskridge as they discuss how your core wounds can show up in your relationships. There are a lot of things we can avoid in life, relationships are not one of...

Join Mary as she kicks off this month's topic of Core Wounds. Our first core wound is the originating moment when we stop believing we are whole and deserving of unconditional love, and we start belie...

Join Mary and her special guest, Lauren DeVera. Lauren DeVera is a certified life coach, positive psychology practitioner, mindfulness/yoga teacher, and choreographer dedicated to empowering others th...

Join Mary and her special guest, Rafael Puebla. Rafael combines 25 years of international corporate experience and mindfulness practice. He has held leadership positions at Fortune 100 companies such ...

Join Mary and her special guest, Lisa Abramson. Called an inspiration by Oprah, Lisa Abramson is an executive coach, mindfulness teacher, author and mom of two girls. She teaches overachievers how to ...

Join Mary and her very special guest, Allison Fallon. Allison is an award winning author, sought after public speaker, and nationally recognized writing coach. She has worked with thousands of people ...

Join Mary as she kicks off this month's topic of MINDFULNESS. Did you know that you have creative agency over your life? You have a say so in how your life plays out. You can't create anything good in...

Join Mary and her special guest Kairah James. Kairah is a Body Confidence and Health Coach. Her mission is to empower women to feel confident in their bodies through mindset, nutrition, and fitness. S...

Join Mary and her special guest Natalie Wilson. Natalie Wilson, is the creator of High Heal Diaries. Mother of three, wife, business-woman, and a three-time breast cancer survivor. Natalie has had an ...

Join Mary and her special guest and dear friend, Amy Porterfield. Amy Porterfield is an online marketing expert and the host of the top-ranked podcast, Online Marketing Made Easy. Before building a mu...

Join Mary as she kicks off this month's topic of Body Confidence! Despite what culture tells us, most people will tell you the thing they find the most attractive about a woman is confidence. Confiden...

Join Mary as she wraps up this month by talking about creating a blueprint to help you fulfill your purpose. We were all  uniquely created for a reason. Once we understand who we are at our core, it i...

Join Mary and her special guest, Lisa Jane. Lisa Jane is a Soul Purpose Coach, Speaker & Intuitive. Her mission is to help women awaken to their soul's purpose & fully step into it as an entrepreneur....

Join Mary and her very VERY special guest, her mother, Gail Hyatt. Gail is a mother to 5 daughters, grandmother of 9, and wife of 40 years to Michael Hyatt. At 65 Gail has lived, and continues to live...