In the winter of 2019, I was referred to Hospice with cancer throughout my body.
In the winter of 2023, I was declared NED (No Evidence of Disease). This is my story.
I often get requests from other cancer journeyers to share my story. As my own time and emotional bandwidth is limited, I created this video to share my own personal cancer experience with natural and allopathic (conventional) medicine. Please keep in mind that this was my experience. Each person has their own experience with cancer and certain medicines. There is no one way to heal cancer, each body is different. If you’re interested in hearing more of my story or checking out resources, I’ve created over the years.
Please check out the links below.
Also, please check out my Amazon bestselling book ‘Grace, Grit & Gratitude:
A Cancer Thriver’s Journey from Hospice to Full Recovery also with the
Healing Power of Horses’: https://amzn.to/3lEJua3
We create our reality in every moment.
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Four years ago in the depth of chemo, before my hip broke (little did I know what was coming my way!
) striking an Ani Difranco post in the chemo chair to keep myself going. (I was referred to Hospice like 4 months before this) I believed I could heal and I did! 
Of course my Sweet horse Blue is by my side. Note: this is before he was diagnosed with cancer
Check out my full story in my book! https://amzn.to/3lEJua3
It’s really interesting how music can knock down a wall and be an open connection
between you and someone else where something else can’t. When music comes along,
it just opens your heart a little more.
THE HEALING POWER OF MUSIC
A story about my magic fiddle, my father & Alasdair Frasier’s Sierra Nevada Fiddle Camp!
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Music heals!
What is your relationship to music? How do you find your joy?
Please share, I would love to know! Tara Coyote
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Fiddle camp! Words cannot express just how profound:Alasdair Fraser’s Sierra Fiddle Camp was for me!
I had lived in the Nevada City area for 10 years & always wanted to go, but never did.
What followed was my own close brush with death and the death of both of my parents
in a short few years.
My father gifted me this 1890’s fiddle from Germany one month before my dear mom died. It was THE LAST TIME I saw him happy IN HIS LIFE (he died tragically 4 short months after my mom did
). If you knew my father, this speaks volumes, as he was a jovial & exuberant being! This is why this fiddle means EVERYTHING to me. It was his last parting gift of love to me.
I had another beloved fiddle that I had painstakingly saved up for,
which was stolen when I was in the midst of cancer treatment.
Being surrounded by such accomplished musicians, teachers & stellar human beings this week has touched my heart & advanced my playing beyond anything I have musically done, since I started playing in the 3rd grade. Alasdair Fraser’s Fiddle World camp is all about playing music by ear, WHICH IS COMPLETELY NEW TO ME!
This was definitely a challenge!
Many times I was striving to catch a few notes here & there, but by the end of the week, I’m happy to say, I feel confident figuring out a song on my own! 
My old fiddle had some issues, and 4 strings broke in a matter of 3 days
Luckily my kind new friends helped me, which I’m so grateful for.
Last nights culmination concert was incredibly beautiful. I felt the presence of my parents smiling down on me. I played my fiddle to my mom, when she was dying. This fiddle & the healing power of music are all wrapped up with the incredible gratitude & grief I feel with their painful deaths in the past year and a half.
I now understand, my dad bought me this fiddle 5 months before his heartbreaking death & it made him so happy to gift me it, as he KNEW IT WOULD OPEN MY HEART TO HEALING WHEN I MOST NEEDED IT
This completely blows me away. WOW (And the tears rolling down my face are proof of this)
A big Mahalo goes out to the teachers & all my new musician friends who were so kind & loving. I’m deeply grateful for this profound healing.
And for those who came to see me, thank you from the bottom of my heart for the kind words you said to me. I am incredibly honored for your presence, reflection & love. It truly means the world to me.
CLEAR SCANS I’m incredibly grateful to be alive after being referred to Hospice 4.5 years ago with cancer throughout my bodyEven though this completely goes against the dominant paradigm of thought, I am also THANKFUL to the energetic of cancer which has taught me to TRULY APPRECIATE and EN
JOY LIFE Cancer has brought me to the edge of death, where I faced my fear of the shadows & learned to truly claim my
JOY & rebirth myself. This has been the most amazing gift I could ever receive.
Please know that your challenges are truly here to serve you in your growth, to shine the diamond of your soul.
Never doubt your body’s ability to heal my friends!
Embrace your shadows, reach deep inside and find your own key to healing.
Thanks for the love & support over the years friends, I so love and appreciate all of you!
If you’re interested in reading or listening to me story (my audiobook came out this spring!), please check out my bestselling book, ‘Grace, Grit & Gratitude: A Cancer Thriver’s Journey from Hospice to Full Recovery with the Healing Power of Horses’ – Link in comments I’m super honored to have my cancer healing story shared in this awesome book by Twenty Stories: Resilience, Courage and Hope in the Face of Cancer: Amazon.com: Books Live Life Now Project called ‘Twenty Stories: Resilience Courage & Hope in the Face of Cancer’!
This book, by Richard Calautti, shares inspiring stories of 20 different people on the cancer journey.
My interview is called ‘I tried to think of cancer as a great wake up call to how you can really live your life.’
I truly think that EVERY challenging circumstance is here to grow us, so why not make the best of it and reap the benefits of even something like cancer
Everything can be a blessing, so why can’t cancer be a blessing too
I highly encourage you to check out this gem of a book if you or someone you know is going through cancer. It’s SO VITALLY IMPORTANT TO MAINTAIN HOPE when it comes to healing, don’t you think
Link for book in comments 
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Tara Coyote
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