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Hi, I’m Shayla.

I help people feel what’s buried, free what’s blocked, and come back to life.

3 year cancerversary

The Day I Rang the Bell - and Why Nothing Felt the Way I Expected

On October 9, 2018, I rang the bell at Memorial Sloan Kettering - the ritual
that marks the end of radiation treatment. The lobby clapped. My nurses
cried. Everyone around me expected me to feel free. But instead of relief, something else surfaced.
I didn’t feel happy. I felt… everything I had avoided for decades.
The grief.
The abandonment.
The ache of a mother who left when I was a baby.
The little girl inside me who learned early how to survive without ever feeling.
Cancer didn’t break me - it cracked me open.
That bell didn’t just mark the end of treatment.
It marked the beginning of my awakening - the moment I stopped
bypassing pain and finally turned toward what was swirling inside.
It was the beginning of my evolution.
My reconstruction.
My return to truth.

3Bell Evolution
Shayla Martin

Cancer Wasn’t the Trauma - It Was the Teacher.

As I began therapy, somatic work, and plant medicine, I learned something that changed the way I understood everything:
My body wasn’t sick - it was speaking. It was holding years of unprocessed grief, responsibility, abandonment, and
performance-based strength. I had built a whole life around appearing fine. Strong. Capable. Unshakeable. But inside, I was numb.
The truth finally found its way through: I wasn’t broken. I was blocked.
And the blockage wasn’t cancer - it was the mother wound. The old ache I never gave myself permission to feel. Feeling it - fully, honestly, in my body - is what set me free.

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Now I Help Others Do What I Had to Learn the Hard Way.

Healing isn’t an intellectual process.
It’s a felt one.
Today, I help people:

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Welcome their emotions instead of outrunning them
Release the armor that kept them safe but stuck
Identify the deeper story beneath their symptoms
Break open emotional scar tissue stored in the body
Rebuild their inner architecture from truth, not survival -
Return to a life that feels real, honest, and alive

My work blends:

  • Somatic healing

  • Sound and vibration

  • Trauma-informed emotional processing

  • Storytelling + truth-telling

  • The Reconstruction Journey™

  • Humor, softness, and grounded presence

​It’s science and spirit.
It’s practical and sacred.
It’s deep and human and honest.

It’s what happens when you feel it to heal it.

TherapeutiK Sessions: Where Science Meets Somatic Healing

A therapeutic, ketamine-assisted healing experience for those ready to go deeper.

Alongside my somatic and sound healing work, I also serve as a facilitator for TherapeutiK Sessions - a 2.5-hour guided therapeutic journey blending breathwork, ketamine-assisted therapy, sound healing, and emotional integration.

This experience is not a clinic and it’s not a “trip.”

It’s a therapeutic immersion designed to help people safely dissolve emotional blockages, reset the nervous system, and reconnect with the deeper layers of themselves that talk therapy alone often can’t reach.

I support clients through:

intake + therapeutic preparation

breathwork + grounding

​guided sound healing during the journey

emotional integration afterward

This work is for individuals craving a deeper opening - especially those navigating trauma, burnout, anxiety, or post-depression recovery, and those integrating prior plant medicine or therapeutic experiences.
It is a powerful complement to the somatic and emotional reconstruction work I offer through Feel It to Heal It™.

The Reconstruction Journey™
A Method Born From My Own Healing

As I healed - slowly, painfully, beautifully - I realized my process followed the same pattern over and over:

  • I had to name what hurt.

  • I had to let it move through my body.

  • I had to rebuild from truth, not fear.

  • I had to reclaim the parts of me I lost along the way.

  • I had to integrate the new version of myself.

That’s how The Reconstruction Journey™ was born - a 5-phase framework for emotional reconstruction:
Deconstruct → Detoxify → Reconstruct → Reclaim → Regenerate
It mirrors what my body instinctively knew how to do. It’s the method I now use to help people break through their own blockages and return to flow.

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What I Believe

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You’re not broken - you’re just blocked.
The body holds what the mind refuses to feel.
Emotions aren’t problems; they’re messages.
Healing hurts - and leads to freedom.
Strength isn’t in the holding - it’s in the releasing.
Laughter moves energy, too.
Love is the ultimate liberator
Flow returns when you stop performing and start feeling

You’re Here Because Something Inside You Is Asking to Move.

My clients are high-functioning, deeply feeling humans who look successful on the outside - but inside feel stuck, numb, overwhelmed, or disconnected.
People who’ve done all the “work” (therapy, self-help, mindset) but can sense there’s something deeper that talking doesn’t touch.
People ready to stop holding it together.
Stop pretending.
Stop bypassing.
People ready to feel - so they can finally live again If that’s you, you’re in the right place.

When You Feel What’s Buried, You Free What’s Blocked.

Your flow was never gone -
it was just waiting for you to soften, surrender, and let it move. I’d be honored to walk with you

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