Help Lily’s Cancer Recovery

Our beloved Lily is an artist, childcare provider, and bright-hearted friend who’s facing a difficult season in life. She was recently diagnosed with colorectal cancer after a year of severe health issues that impacted her ability to work. After months of doctor visits and testing, she was able to get to the root cause of why she was feeling unusual fatigue, weight loss, and gut problems. The good news is, she will be going to UCSF for surgery in a week. Her treatment involves hospitalization and months of recovery.

We need to raise $50,000 to bridge this gap, pay for post recovery treatments and allow her the time to heal.

Let's please generously support Lily so she's not also stressed about surviving this hardship financially. It’s already been a year and we expect the year ahead to be the road to recovery.

Please click here to donate and please send to others who are able to help. If you’d like to read more about this and a message from Lily read on! Thank you tremendously! We LOVE LILY SO MUCH!!!!

Thank you for supporting our dear friend and sister,

Mati, Nikki, Mieka, and her family, BIG thanks and hugs from us & Lily!

Lily’s Social Media Link: Lily's instagram link

Lily will be so grateful for your prayers that this is an early catch and can soon restore health and continue with her creative passions and enjoying a healthy lifestyle. She looks forward to more energy and no more body pains so she can get back to what lights her up the most: creating bright & boldly with joy, painting colorful Goddesses & nature/travel inspired work, teaching creative online lessons & in-person workshops, assisting at art retreats, helping support little humans develop and grow, getting out on hikes, dancing, and being in her bright-hearted energy! She has hopes of going back to school for a Master's in psychology or Art Therapy and/or opening an art/nature-focused home daycare. Lily’s mission is to inspire others to live life from a creative & playful lens, and to make healing less scary and hard. She will continue to spread her love for connection and nature through painting, teaching classes, and assisting at art retreats.

With your support, Lily will have less financial stress and can start the recovery and holiday season off with a more weight lifted & warmth, and you can enjoy some fun/user-friendly painting demos to get your creative wheels turning and inner child playing. Lily will also be coming out with a new painting class next year when she has more energy for filming and would like to gift that to those who donate as well. Hint: it will be Goddess themed. Lastly, once she is fully recovered, she plans to share her health journey and story to inspire others to listen to their bodies, seek out both natural, Eastern, and Western medicine, to get screenings like colonoscopy (early if needed), to find peace in nature, use an art practice & somatic dance as healthy outlets for handling stress & anxiety, to cultivate inner strength, spirituality, and a ultimately a supportive community—because a loving community at the end of the day, along with inner light/fire, is everything when life meets you with challenges.

With so much love and gratitude, we appreciate you! If you feel like sharing this cause, please do.

Lily wants to thank her beloved Family & Friends for always making her feel loved & supported (even the ones she doesn’t get to see on a regular basis she doesn’t forget the way you’ve made her feel), a BIG thanks to her Amazing Mom Debra who has been her rock through life and especially now, her Sister Rose and Aunt Milcah (Happy Ohana & Willow Tree Home Day Cares) who keep her grounded, her Grandparents for their prayers & support, Alicia, Russ, Lacou being there in the shadows when things got dark and reminded her she’s safe, her cousin Kelaiah, friend Kay and roommates Grace, Raina, Clement for supporting her with her gut & mental health, Christina, Laura, Judy for the love and check ins, her coaches Abhi & Flynn for their gentle guidance, all the families she’s been apart of and little ones she’s helped raise who have taught her so much about life and being present, Shah family for being so compassionate and advocating for her. Thank you to her creative mentors along the way: Mati Rose McDonough & Faith Evan-Sills who’s she’s travel to Costa Rica and Morocco to support on art retreats and taught online with, who remind her to see the world from a place of delight, Nikki Cade & Annamieka Hopps her closest art sisters who she’s shared all her art dreams with, Flora Bowley who she assisted in Portland at Bloom True Retreats and gain inspiration to paint freely from, Justina Blakeney for hosting her at Jungalow L.A. for Sol Love workshop and selling her art prints, who she looks up to and freaking adores, Jessica Abbot at Brushstokes pottery studio in Berkeley, CA for hosting her Dream Board workshop & painting classes who reminds her to go for it, Eisenhauer Gallery for selling her larger originals and believing her talent, Jeanetta Gonzales for gut health support & inspiration, Kelly Rae Roberts who’s creative spark has reminded Lily to do what brings her joy, Andrea Scher reminding her to seek wonder around in all life’s moments, Moon Flower Studio Mates for co-creating a beautiful space & making her art studio dreams a reality, PDX Art ladies for all the painting parties, Get Messy Art Journal, Creative Bug, and Workshop Week for allowing Lily to share her art lessons with their communities, Seven Star Sisters for dancing it out with her and being in your water Mermaid Goddess Energy with her during this hard season, all her thoughtful art collectors & students, she feels extremely blessed for all the beautiful connections she’s made over the past years! Thank you for your support, for the people showing up from the past and people who are new and are just reading her story today!

Here are some favorite memories, ones to be grateful for, it was hard to get everyone who’s been a light in Lily’s life, she is sending love to everyone who’s touched her heart. Here are some photos with family, childhood, college, art retreat friends, childhood, and some of her work, thanks for sharing!