Welcome to Amy McCarty, Author and Motivational Speaker's Personal Coaching

Hi, I’m Amy McCarty. 

I’m a writer, mom, partner, sister — and a widow. I help people navigate life after loss with compassion, clarity, and hope because I know how disorienting it feels to live in a world that no longer looks or feels the same.
 

I was deeply in love with my husband, Frank — and I still am, even after his death. Losing him was the most painful experience of my life. For a long time, I couldn’t imagine feeling joy alongside my grief.
 

But as I walked through the darkness, I discovered something unexpected: I learned to love myself more than I ever thought possible. That love began to overflow into my relationships with others. I learned that hope, peace, joy, and love can live side by side — and that both grief and beauty can shape a life worth living. My mother used to say that life was for the living. I didn't really understand that until I was trying to muddle my way through the grief of becoming a widow.
 

While writing my second book about finding peace in the middle of pain, I faced another loss — being laid off from my full-time job. In that moment, I realized the tools and inner strength I’d built after losing Frank were the same ones carrying me through this new season.
 

That’s when a lightbulb went off so-to-speak, and it became clear: I wanted to share these tools with others. Not to erase the pain, but to help people move forward — to find hope, peace, joy, and love in the middle of the sorrow, and to know that healing the raw pain is possible, even though you will always carry grief.
 

Today, I find myself walking alongside people who are learning to carry grief while embracing life. Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love — guide every step of this journey. Actually, I realized that hope, peace, joy, and love have been my pillars of my life for as long as I can remember.
 

I live in Texas with my young adult children and my partner, Chuck. I treasure slow mornings with coffee, laughing with my kids, watching a good suspense show, and sneaking off to my office with a book I can’t put down.
 

If you’re ready to take the next step toward hope, peace, joy, and love, I’d be honored to walk beside you. You can use my free "Healing Toolkit". I took my Lenten journal from 2022 and created something anyone can use.  Feel free to download it and use it yourself.