What happens when you feel completely healthy — only to discover that cancer has been quietly spreading throughout your body?
This episode marks the first of a new series on the HEAL with Kelly Podcast: HEALing Stories, where we’re creating more space to share real people, real healing journeys, and powerful stories of hope and resilience.
In this powerful HEALing Story, Stacy Solodkin shares her extraordinary journey from an unexpected Stage 3C ovarian cancer diagnosis to being eight years out with no evidence of disease.
Stacy opens up about the subtle symptom that sent her to the emergency room, the moment she was told cancer was “everywhere,” and why trusting her intuition and refusing to be sent home may have saved her life. She shares the importance of advocating for yourself, seeking second opinions, and finding a medical team that truly feels aligned with you.
Stacy also takes us inside the whole-person approach she embraced alongside conventional cancer treatment — from nutrition and acupuncture to meditation and other supportive therapies — and how the HEAL documentary helped expand her understanding of the role she could play in her own healing.
But Stacy’s story is about much more than cancer. Facing her mortality completely transformed the way she lives. She learned to stop waiting for “someday,” release fear and difficult emotions, receive support, and ask herself one powerful question: How will I feel about this decision on my last day?
Her story is a moving reminder to listen to your body, advocate for yourself, and not wait for a diagnosis to start living the life you truly want.
LINKS
Stacy Solodkin on Instagram @stacysolodkin
Key Moments You'll Love ✨ :
🏥 [2:39] Two ER Doctors Said Constipation — She Refused to Leave
💔 [6:18] The Doctor Took Her Hand and Said It's Everywhere
🧬 [7:20] Stage 3C on Every Organ — and She Had Just Buried Her Father a Month Before
👩⚕️ [14:14] Why She Fired the First Surgeon and Found Her Real Team at City of Hope
🎥 [17:51] Kelly Sent Her a Copy of Heal Before It Even Came Out — and It Changed Everything
💊 [18:48] From Zero Supplements to 80 to 100 a Day — Plus Acupuncture, Mistletoe and Hyperbaric
🍕 [17:51] Cancer Healing Is a Whole Pizza Pie — Not Just Chemo
🚫 [39:08] Sugar Feeds Cancer Cells — Here's What She Cut Out Completely
📱 [33:21] She Posted Every Chemo Session — and Friends Found Aneurysms Because of It
💛 [45:46] We Only Have Today — and Every Morning You Wake Up You're Winning
🌈 [47:47] You Are Not Sick — You Are Shedding
🙏 [45:46] What to Do in the Dark Tunnel When Hope Feels Impossible
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