My name is Michaela Stankiewicz but you can also know me by Marta Smiertelny, Marta Stankiewicz or Marta Love.
My journey into this work has been shaped by life itself - through love, healing, motherhood, relationships, the body, and the moments that invited me to meet myself with greater honesty, depth, and awareness.
For more than twenty years, my work has continued to deepen alongside my own understanding of what it means to be human, to love, to protect what is tender within us, to long for closeness, and to find our way back into connection.
What I know today is that some of the deepest transformations in our lives begin in the places where we are willing to meet ourselves fully and allow love to reveal who we are becoming.
More Than Twenty Years of Holistic Work
For more than two decades, I have been walking alongside people through healing, transformation, emotional growth, and deeper connection with themselves.
My work began in the world of holistic wellbeing and gradually expanded into a much wider understanding of the relationship between the body, emotions, nervous system, intimacy, relationships, and the experiences that shape the way we move through life.
Over the years, I have witnessed how deeply the body remembers, how strongly our sense of safety influences the way we connect, and how much can begin to shift when we learn to listen more closely to what is happening within us.
This journey has shaped the way I work today. I bring together holistic understanding, nervous-system awareness, relationship work, embodiment, intimacy, sexuality, and conscious connection, allowing each person and each relationship to be met as something living, layered, and deeply human.
Why Relationships Matter So Deeply to Me
Relationships have always fascinated me because they reveal so much about who we are.
They show us how we love, how we open, how we protect what is tender within us, how we respond to closeness, and how deeply we long to be seen, understood, chosen, and met.
Through my own life and through many years of working with people, I began to see relationships as one of the most powerful spaces for growth and awakening. The person closest to us can often reflect the places where we feel most alive, most vulnerable, most hopeful, and most ready for transformation.
This is where my work became increasingly focused on emotional safety, intimacy, conscious connection, and the deeper patterns that shape the way we experience love.
I became especially drawn to the moments when two people still care deeply for one another and are searching for a way to feel close again, as well as to the individual journey of understanding who we become when we love.
For me, relationship work is ultimately about creating the kind of connection in which both people can feel more present, more understood, more alive, and more fully themselves.
My Approach
I believe that every relationship carries its own language, rhythm, history, and way of asking to be understood.
My work begins with listening more deeply - to the words that are spoken, to the emotions underneath them, to the body, to the nervous system, to the patterns that repeat, and to the places where connection is asking for more care, awareness, and presence.
I bring together relationship awareness, emotional safety, nervous-system understanding, embodiment, intimacy, sexuality, communication, and conscious partnership in a way that allows the whole person and the whole relationship to be seen.
For me, meaningful transformation begins when awareness becomes embodied. When we begin to understand what we feel, what we need, what we long for, and how our body responds within connection, we gain the ability to meet love with greater choice, honesty, and presence.
This is the space I create in my work - a space where people can understand themselves more deeply, experience one another more fully, and begin creating relationships that feel more conscious, connected, alive, and true.
The Heart of Awaken By Love
Awaken By Love grew from everything life, love, healing, and years of working with people have taught me about the human heart.
It became a space where relationship is seen as more than something we simply experience. It is a place where we can become more aware of ourselves, more present with another person, and more connected to the truth of what love is asking us to learn.
At the heart of this work is a deep respect for the way love can awaken us. It can reveal the places within us that are ready for greater honesty, tenderness, courage, embodiment, and connection. It can invite us into a deeper relationship with ourselves while also showing us how to meet another person with more awareness and presence.
Awaken By Love is where all of these threads come together - emotional safety, intimacy, conscious partnership, the body, the nervous system, sexuality, and the inner awakening that can happen when love becomes a path we walk with intention.
This is the work closest to my heart.
Love can become more than something we feel.
It can become a path of awakening.
Connect With Me
If something in this work speaks to you and you feel a quiet sense that it may be time to look more deeply at yourself, your relationship, or the way you are experiencing love and connection, I would be happy to hear from you.
You are welcome to reach out exactly as you are and share a little about what is happening in your life right now, what you are longing for, and what you would like to experience differently. Sometimes the first meaningful shift begins simply by giving words to something that has been living quietly within us for a long time.
Our first conversation is a space to connect, to understand what is calling for your attention, and to explore what kind of support may feel most aligned with where you are now.
Whether you are moving through a personal relationship journey, longing for deeper emotional connection, wanting to understand recurring patterns, or hoping to rediscover closeness and intimacy within your partnership, you are welcome here.
I believe that every journey begins in its own way and in its own timing. When you feel ready, you can reach out and begin that conversation.
Get in Touch
Michaela (Marta) Stankiewicz
Founder, Awaken By Love