When the Marshall Fire tore through Boulder County in 2021, dancer Fallon Voorheis-Mathews lost nearly everything, including her Louisville-area home, car, aerial equipment and even her creative spark. In the weeks that followed, the media painted a quick-moving narrative of destruction and recovery. But to Voorheis-Matthews, that story was incomplete.

"I think so many things are missing in journalism about what the real story is of what happened to the victims of the fire," Voorheis-Matthews says. "Everybody wants it to be okay because everybody else moved on. It was just on to the next thing, and everyone assumed that once you got home, everything would be fine, right? But it's not. There's still a lot of grief and trauma there and things are still working through."

That lingering grie

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