Finding Normal | A Story of Trust and Transformation
Feb 22, 2024 ·
42m 44s
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Like all kids, Mysti Lopez viewed her young life as normal and didn't give the recurring dysfunction in her home a second thought. Surrounded by drugs, fraud, abuse, and alcohol,...
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Like all kids, Mysti Lopez viewed her young life as normal and didn't give the recurring dysfunction in her home a second thought. Surrounded by drugs, fraud, abuse, and alcohol, she had no idea that life didn't have to be consistently unstable and filled with chaos. Sent to live in California's foster care system, her adoptive mom did her best to show Mysti what a good, “normal” life looks like. However, it was so foreign to her younger self that she couldn’t trust her new-found stability and as such, she ran away back to Utah. There, Mysti spent the better part of 16 years in and out of the system. As she was once again being arrested, she realized there must be a better way to live. Listen as she recounts her discovery of a truly normal life through the help of a rehabilitation program. Her story of survival, change, and success is sure to open your eyes.
“It’s OK to ask for help from somebody. Most of my life I was really untrusting of adults because I’ve had a lot of trauma from them in many aspects, so it made me feel like I had to do everything on my own, which eventually led me to trying to fix everybody all the time and ignore myself. So that’s the advice I’d give myself is slow down and ask for help. It’s OK. You don’t have to do it all on your own.” 41:28
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- The drug life was normal 2:00
- When she told on herself 6:15
- Selling drugs 12:00
- A toxic marriage and alcoholism 14:45
- When things changed 19:00
- House of hope 22:30
- Manny’s path out 27:00
- Her boys 35:30
“It’s OK to ask for help from somebody. Most of my life I was really untrusting of adults because I’ve had a lot of trauma from them in many aspects, so it made me feel like I had to do everything on my own, which eventually led me to trying to fix everybody all the time and ignore myself. So that’s the advice I’d give myself is slow down and ask for help. It’s OK. You don’t have to do it all on your own.” 41:28
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