She is the author of three best selling books: Touching Tomorrow, I Used to Have a Handle on Life but It Broke and Stop Screaming at the Microwave. She has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, a 20/20 special on women and stress and four times on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She is a contributor to the best selling books Chocolate for a Woman's Soul, Chocolate for a Woman's Heart and Young for Your Life: The Best Anti-aging Secrets for Women. Mary has touched millions through her articles in prominent magazines from the Wall Street Journal to Family Circle.

Mary served on the faculty of the University of Colorado School of Medicine for fifteen years as the director of the Hypertension Research Center.

She proudly serves as the national spokesperson for Camp to Belong, which reunites brothers and sisters placed in different foster homes for events of fun and empowerment.

Mary is the mother of three children. She happily resides with her family in their living laboratory in Aurora, Colorado.