Shyla D Mayes

10/24/2025

At Sacred Soil, we believe healing is holy work.
It is the process of returning to the person God originally designed you to be.
Through Christ-centered truth, therapeutic practice, and sacred community, we nurture the soil of the soul — until what was once broken begins to bloom again.

10/24/2025

🌿 It’s Here!
My new book is finally out:
📗Healing Beyond Shame:

A raw and redemptive journey through sexual trauma, truth, and transformation.

🕊️ Break the silence.
🕊️ Reclaim your identity.
🕊️ Heal beyond the hurt.

👉 Tap the link in my bio to order

10/20/2025

🌿 12 Days Until Prayer Clinic Begins! 🌿
The countdown is on. In just 12 days, we gather for Prayer Clinic — a sacred space to learn how to pray, engage the Father, and believe for what you’re praying for.

This isn’t just another prayer meeting. It’s a spiritual immersion — where faith is strengthened, hearts are awakened, and heaven meets earth through prayer. 🙏🏽

Come ready to grow in your prayer life, to intercede boldly, and to experience the presence of God in a deeper way.

🗓 Starts in 12 Days
📍 Hosted by Sacred Soil
✨ Tag someone who needs to be in the room!
🔗 Link In Bio

10/13/2025

From the desk of the Founder & Visionary 🕊️

Too many hearts are surviving when they were created to flourish. Sacred Soil exists to cultivate the inner life—merging biblical truth, emotional healing, and spiritual formation so you can live whole and lead well.
We till the heart (Root), train the mind (Growth), and commission the life (Fruit). This is restorative work. Holy work. Your work.
If you’re ready to heal, to learn, to lead—welcome home.
— Shyla D. Mayes

10/13/2025

When the soil of the heart is nourished by prayer, watered by the Word, and tended through healing, it produces fruit that reflects the character of Christ—love, joy, wisdom, and discernment. But when left untended, weeds of shame, fear, and bitterness can choke out what God intends to flourish.

05/08/2025

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09/23/2024

What did you do with your unmet needs?
How did they manifest in your decisions?
Carrying secrets? Things that you have done in place of your voids, that you'd never tell a soul?

Here are a few questions to consider when criticizing the actions of others, without understanding their pain. People need love, attention, assurance & affection.

If you're going to speak on what you see, let it be to uplift, encourage, correct or pray!

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09/23/2024

Be careful not to get so caught up in doing, that you forget to define!

Purpose comes with clarity!

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09/23/2024

Ask yourself:

What kind of person do I want to be?
What kind of mother do i want to be?
What kind of spouse do I want to be?
What kind of friend do I want to be?

& do what supports that!

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09/23/2024

Dear Fathers,

We CANNOT successfully do life without you!

Here are some statistics about children who are forced to grow up without a father:

-Mental health and behavioral problems: Children from single-parent families are twice as likely to have mental health and behavioral problems than children living with married parents.

-School performance: Children with an actively involved father perform better in school, and are less likely to repeat a class.

-Criminal justice involvement: Children who grow up without a father are more likely to be involved in the juvenile justice system.

-Substance abuse: Children who grow up without a father are more likely to use illicit substances at a younger age.

-Homelessness: 90% of homeless and runaway children come from fatherless homes.

-Su***de: 60% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.

-Teen pregnancy: 70% of teenage pregnancies come from women raised in a fatherless home.