In the next year, Sonya plans to move to Texas, join the Army Reserve, become a medic and eventually reach her goal of being a registered nurse. Her life is mapped out. And she’s ready to chase her goals so she and her daughter can have an even better life.
But Sonya’s current clarity and confidence was hard earned. For most of her life, instability and anxiety was the norm. The pulls of The Churn surrounded every day of her childhood. Her father suffered from addiction. Her mother fell into cycles of codependency. Sonya saw this and knew she didn’t want to have the same life, but she didn’t know how to escape it. Sonya fought her way into a good life for her and her child, and she isn’t going to stop fighting now.
“Until Solutions, no one ever explained to me what codependency was or how poverty and homelessness are cycles,” Sonya said. “I recognized that bad things were happening, but I didn’t yet have the tools to handle them, and my relationship with my family suffered. I came to Solutions because I knew they could give me stable housing, but it turned out to be so much more than just housing. They taught me more, trusted me more and supported me more than I could’ve imagined.”
