Originally brought to Colorado by a now ex-husband, Myra’s journey into homelessness began after a series of destabilizing events: a sudden divorce delivered secondhand, the unexpected death of a boyfriend in her apartment, and mounting trauma that made everyday responsibilities feel impossible. “That really started my spiraling,” she says. “I just stopped caring about paying rent... and then of course I got evicted.”
Her trauma was persistent. She experienced visual flashbacks of her late boyfriend and struggled with PTSD, depression, and substance use. Entry into recovery wasn’t easy. She relapsed after a sponsor dropped her, found herself surrounded by unhealthy influences in her housing unit, and at one point had to fake going to rehab just to evict people from her apartment. But eventually, she got serious. With help from the Path program and a determined case manager, she found stable housing and began attending Narcotics Anonymous. She's been clean since 2017.
