Navigating My Breast Cancer Journey: Lessons, Hope, and Healing

I have some news to share that may be shocking for some of you and hard to wrap your brain around.

I have been on a most miraculous and holy journey over the last year and a half (well my whole life, but that’s another story).

This is what I am calling my “3rd Awakening.”

Take deep breaths as you read this and take this in.

On 6/14/24 I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

I chose to not do any conventional treatments (surgery, chemo, radiation) at the time. I knew in my heart that my particular journey was going to be different. I knew that everything is energy and that energy can always change form, even one of the densest energies that can show up in the human body. Keep in mind that I was also a cancer nurse for several years, so I was well informed on the standard treatments of care for cancer.

I knew that I had to "go within" to see what energy this cancer was holding within my body. I also knew it was a messenger and that my work was to unravel the messages. And so I did that. And I dove deeper within myself than I ever have before.

On 11/21/25, I had follow up scans. The main mass has gotten notably smaller (almost 50% smaller!) and they couldn’t find the smaller lesions that were there last year.

The radiologist was shocked and kept looking and looking for the smaller lesions and re-measuring the main mass.

She asked me, “Wait, what are you doing or taking again?”

I told her that I am taking some herbs + supplements and making dietary + lifestyle changes, but the main thing I am doing is the INNER WORK which includes EMOTIONAL work (releasing repressed emotions and increasing positive emotions), ancestral healing work, trauma healing, and nervous system re-wiring work to clear /heal all of the emotional, mental, and energetic gunk I’ve held in my body + psyche for decades (maybe lifetimes / generations) and to rewire my body + psyche for health and vitality.

I told her that I knew that I had the answers for my own healing within myself (we all do).

I knew that everything is energy and stuck energy creates dis-ease.

She looked at me in DISBELIEF and said, “Well it’s working. It’s smaller. Also on the images, it is noticeably less pronounced and way less dense. It’s actually getting better. And we can’t even find the smaller lesions. I’ve never seen anything like this in my 20 years of doing this. A year with no conventional treatment should show enlargement and spreading, and certainly not shrinkage. Whatever you’re doing is working. Keep doing it! Congratulations."

And I laid on that table and I wept. I knew it. My soul knew it.

I will be sharing more over the coming days and months about my journey into the consciousness of cancer and what I have discovered. I am here to teach people how to heal from the inside out. I go first.

This will all be written in my upcoming book and discussed on my upcoming podcast: We Are The Medicine.

For now, I sit in deep, deep gratitude and preparation for the emergence from this chrysalis, as my body and mind continue to heal and regenerate, and as I continue to move forward with my children.

I am also in deep grief with some recent transitions and loss.

Thank you to EVERYONE who has supported me on this journey and everyone who held BIG space for me, who cried with me, who believed in me, who encouraged me, and who prayed for me. I am eternally grateful.

Thank you God for this life and for this sacred journey into knowing, loving, and trusting myself and YOU more.

I fall to my knees in gratitude for everything. Everything.

Remember y’all, we can heal anything.

But we must be willing to face ourselves, to FEEL our pain AND our joy, and to show up for ourselves, no matter how scary it may be.

And also remember: We. Are. The. Medicine.

“I am not afraid. I was born to do this.” -Joan of Arc

And when I am afraid, I anchor into my breath and my heart and remember who I AM.

**Please share this if it inspires you or if you know anyone with cancer who may benefit from this message.

I am starting a 3 month program for those on the cancer journey who feel called to do the emotional + spiritual work around this messenger we call cancer. *This is not meant to take the place of your current treatments.

Info: https://www.gowithininstitute.com/copy-of-feel-to-heal-on...

For info on my next Hypno-Breathwork Somatic Healing training visit: https://www.gowithininstitute.com/

Liz Burkholder

11/22/25