09/01/2026
Tomorrow morning is the big reveal. I'M SO EXCITED for all of you to see this space. 🥹🩵
There have been so many little moments over the last few weeks where I’ve just stood inside & looked around like. Wow. This is actually happening.
This all started in a bell tent in the middle of my back yard, right on the ground. Just me, dream, and a massive amount of debt trying to start this business. 😆 Yet here I am, 2 years later, debt free and sitting in my STUDIO.
But I look back on those earlier days, and it's so bittersweet. I honor that part of my life so deeply.... I used to wake up at 7:30 in the morning and walk out to that little bell tent before the rest of the world really felt awake. I would sit on the floor with my cat, Big Cheese, & meditate, journal, and dream about what Sacred Shell Healing could become. And I also tried to figure out who I was becoming along the way.
Somewhere inside that little tent, I stopped waiting to become someone worthy of love and started loving the woman I already was. And I think that’s why I’ll always be grateful for the humble beginning. It's where I met the deepest parts of myself, and climbed up to the light.
It would be too simple for me to look at this beautiful new space and only see how far the business has come. When I look around, I see how far I’ve come too.
I see the version of Alyssa who sat on the ground with absolutely no idea where this would go. The version of me who believed that maybe something meaningful could grow from something so small, even when it felt like the whole world was against me.
And through lots of tears, failures, sucesses, and hard work.... this dream grew, and grew, and grew. Even when I fell down, I got back up with more strength within myself.
This studio was created with so much love, intention, late nights, second guesses, excitement, laughter, and probably WAY too many trips to the hardware store.... I never want to go to Lowe's again (no offense, Lowe's). But more than anything, it was created from a dream that just refused to go away.
Tomorrow, I finally get to open the doors and share The Turtle’s Cove with all of you. And I hope when you see it, you see more than just a pretty studio.
I hope you see what can happen when you keep showing up for something you love, when you start before you feel ready, & when you let the dream grow alongside you.
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