SEE WHAT LOVE CAN DO
moving from pain to peace through infinite generosity
From the back cover:
Your life changed in an instant. Now what?
One phone call. One unthinkable tragedy. And suddenly, everything you built, everything you believed about yourself, is shattered. In the aftermath of a child’s drowning death at her swim school, Mary Reilly-Magee faced a choice: retreat into isolation and shame, or discover a radically different way of moving through grief, guilt, and rebuilding.
What she found became Infinite Generosity™ — a framework that reveals how giving and receiving aren’t opposite forces, but a continuous flow that sustains us through life’s darkest moments and brightest days. Through her journey from devastating loss to hard-won peace, Mary illuminates the four states we all move through — Giving, Receiving, Observing, and Floating — and shows how understanding where you are can transform how you heal, lead, and love.
She wrote it because she had to — and because she believes it might be a map for someone who doesn’t have what she had. A way through. A practice. A companion for the parts of the journey no one talks about.
A new way to understand generosity — not as something that flows outward from strength, but as a loop. Giving and receiving, moving together.
Mary introduces the concept of Infinite Generosity™: a continuous cycle that only works when energy moves both ways. Most of us were taught that giving is virtue and receiving is weakness. This book asks you to reconsider that entirely.
You'll discover:
The four states of being — Giving, Receiving, Observing, and Floating — and how to recognize which one you're living in right now
Why receiving is its own form of generosity, and why refusing help doesn't make you strong; it just makes you alone
What happens when you stay too long on one side of the loop: the exhaustion, resentment, and disconnection that follow
How to move, not toward perfection, but toward flow, one honest choice at a time
What it looks like to float: the state of trust and buoyancy that's available to all of us, not as a destination, but as a place we return to
This isn't a framework for people who have it figured out. It's for the ones still carrying too much, asking for too little, and wondering why it all feels so heavy.
what you’ll discover
“The concept of infinite generosity offers a holistic and beautiful vision of what it means to both receive and give well. A meaningful and transformative read!!”
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“a deeply thoughtful and timely reminder of what becomes possible when we choose love, generosity, and compassion even in the face of pain”
“Mary holds both the grief and the grace with a kind of balance that I found extraordinary. Her concept of Infinite Generosity genuinely shifted something in me.”
“Mary has a profound way of turning heartbreak into wisdom beyond words”
Bring book club to your organization
Most leaders know how to give. What exhausts them is never learning how to receive.
See What Love Can Do opens a conversation most teams never have — about how they give, how they receive, and what's getting in the way. Mary will guide your team through an exploration of what it means to lead with Infinite Generosity™ and leave you with a shared language that empowers your team to connect on a deeper level.