Mikiala Spadaro was skeptical of the medical system — a crunchy, granola type of girlie who did yoga and meditated and didn’t immediately reach for meds whenever she felt ill. She thought she was awakened to life, but she would soon be humbled after finding a huge lump in her breast that seemed to grow overnight, and which was diagnosed as an aggressive, potentially deadly breast cancer. She had thought that she would never do chemo or anything like that, but she softened into the possibility that her highest knowing, not that of doctors, was actually telling her to use Western medicine. She decided not to fight cancer, but to fall in love with it, to see it as her greatest teacher. And by breathing into this relationality with cancer, so began the initiation into the depths of spirituality she had previously only imagined that she understood. She came to a dissolution of her ego, of her self-hood, and from this dissolving, she merged with Love.
Now, Mikiala is more surrendered to life. She knows that cancer could come back any time, in any form. There is no need to fight the future, but there is a call to continue to hold the healing space she cultivated for herself, for others on a healing journey. You can check out her work on her website here. Follow her on instagram at @theamoremethod
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Breast cancer was Mikiala's teacher and guide