Yvonne’s Becoming: A Kaleidoscope Story

Pain chased Yvonne early. She learned to outrun it with alcohol, with laughter, with the kind of numbness that looks like strength on the outside.

Her second marriage was built on broken promises and bottles – a blur of chaos that began before the wedding ever did.

The night she ran, the night it all changed, she was too drunk to remember what happened.

“Someone’s grandma is on life support,” her husband said. “You hit her. You left the scene.”

Yvonne’s was shattered. But the woman lived. And something inside Yvonne broke open. She wanted to change. To heal. To show up. But healing doesn’t happen in straight lines.

Years later, when her husband collapsed and died of a heart attack, grief swallowed her again. She blamed herself. She drank more. She ran – from everything she thought she had rebuilt.

And yet – she stayed. Not with perfection. But with intention.

She met Mike – a man of faith who told her to listen to the Holy Spirit. She did.

She went back to school. Earned her high school diploma. Graduated from college. And when her past came calling again, she didn’t run.

She stayed – with her calling. With her truth. With her God.

Now, Yvonne co-leads Urgent Care for the Broken Hearted – a church for the overlooked, the hurting, the ones still running.

“My vision is big,” she says. “And I’m not gonna stop.”

Yvonne isn’t here because she never fell. She’s here because every time she did, she chose to stay long enough to rise again.

She is proof that redemption is not about starting over. It’s about staying with yourself long enough to become the woman you were meant to be.