Hi, I'm Mandy, founder of Rise With Heart Healing and mama to an angel named Brady. 

 I am a huge believer that self-care is a necessity and not a luxury.  I love nature, manifestation, epsom salt baths, a good book, pushing myself to try new things, and living an alcohol-free lifestyle. 

For more than 20 years, I’ve worked with people through the body. I became a licensed massage therapist in 2005, and over the years I learned our bodies often carry the things our heart doesn't yet know how to put into words.

I’ve experienced profound grief, loss, and the kind of life changes that force you to figure out who you are when the life you imagined is no longer the life you’re living.   At two weeks old we discovered my son Brady's brain had somehow stopped growing during or shortly after birth. Overnight my days became consumed by hospital visits, feeding tubes, medications, seizures, endless worry, and a fear that never seemed to leave.

I spent months feeling overwhelmingly angry at the world. Waves of guilt crashed over me for everything- from choosing hospice instead of pursuing more ways to keep Brady alive, to feeling like I wasn't present for my other children.  I had guilt after he passed because it felt I had been grieving since he was 2 weeks old.  Grieving the life, I thought I was getting with my third baby.

Finally, I decided I couldn't keep living this way.  I began searching for a way to do more than just survive. I needed to be able to take a deep breath again, feel joy again, and feel like me again. I learned healing doesn't mean leaving your loved one behind.  It means learning to carry them with you as you move forward.

That journey led me to create the Brady Wynn Foundation with my husband, where I have had the privilege of walking alongside families facing life-threatening neurological diagnoses of their precious baby.  Through those experiences I realized how many mothers need more than resources- they need someone to walk beside them.

That's why I created Rise With Heart Healing- to offer something I wished existed for women navigating profound grief and major life transitions.  A place to slow down, feel, breathe, process, reconnect, and begin rising into whatever comes next.

As a certified grief coach, licensed massage therapist, and someone who has lived this journey firsthand, I take a whole-person approach to healing.  Together, we'll create space to honor your grief while reconnecting with your mind, body, and heart through compassionate coaching, mindfulness, nature, and practical tools that help you move forward without leaving your love behind.

And Then There’s Sobriety ...

My own relationship with alcohol became another chapter in my healing story.
I experienced what it means to choose a different path, to put down the things that were no longer serving me and build a life rooted in intention, connection, and purpose.

Choosing sobriety taught me that sometimes healing means becoming willing to look honestly at the ways we’ve learned to cope and "adult" and having the courage to choose something different.

That experience led me to expand my work beyond grief and into sober support and sober-curious coaching.

Because grief and sobriety can intersect in complicated ways. Sometimes we’re grieving a person. Sometimes we’re grieving a version of ourselves. Sometimes we’re simply ready to stop numbing and start feeling our lives again.

You don’t have to be perfectly ready.

You just have to be willing to take the next step.

Because I believe we can honor what we’ve lost without losing ourselves.

We can carry grief and still experience joy.

We can change our relationship with alcohol and discover who we are without it, more confident, more authentic, and more badass than ever.

We can reconnect with our bodies instead of fighting them.

And we can build a life that feels meaningful, not because the hard things never happened, but because they became part of a story that didn’t end there.

Healing with heart.

Rising with purpose.

And becoming the woman you’re ready to be.

I will meet you in my office, online, at the hospital for added support, outside in nature or a coffee shop.  Wherever you are most comfortable is where I will be.
I’m so glad you’re here.

With love, Mandy