With little time left, Lila embarked on a spiritual and physical journey. A wandering to San Miguel, Mexico that resulted in visitors seeing a young woman painting on the streets, while wearing a set of angel's wings worn like a backpack. Lila's logic was that if she was supposed to die and become an angel in Heaven, then perhaps Lila-as-angel could live here on earth for a while longer. She treated each work of art as if it were her last. So one day, in San Miguel, Lila woke up. The next day she woke up again and then kept on waking up, not dying, for days after, that turned into weeks. In a supreme moment of self-awareness, Lila knew that she had painted herself well.

Lila says, "My whimsical style is an untrained voice, because of my self-healing. I had to go back to that child to discover who I was. That's how this artwork was born. I know which voice I need to talk in to take care of myself, and sometimes my child voice is the one that heals the unhealthy imprinting of my past."

"I think people need to know that it's possible not to be a victim of unhappy memories. Now I speak from a healed child's voice. God has blessed me with my story, and I think it's my obligation not to abandon either that healed child or that cancer survival story."