Mikayla Matthews Moves to Hawaii on April 29 Amid Chronic Flare-ups

mikayla matthews chronic flare-ups pushed Mikayla Matthews to make a direct change on Wednesday, April 29: she moved from Utah to Hawaii while saying she was still searching for healing. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star tied the trip to her skin and chronic health issues, turning a personal move into a treatment decision.

Matthews posted, “Travel with me to heal my skin!” and later wrote, “Officially starting the new chapter. In the most beautiful place, how STUNNING is this resort!?” She said the move came as she kept dealing with chronic inflammatory response syndrome and a few skin flare-ups because she was “stressed.”

April 22 to April 29

On April 22, Matthews said she was “terrified” of returning to Utah after spending three weeks in California and five days in Costa Rica. After a month away, she said she felt “a little more normal without these flares,” but her skin almost immediately reacted when she got back home. That sequence makes the Hawaii move more than a vacation post; it follows a pattern she says she has been trying to interrupt.

Matthews shares four children with Jace Terry, and she took two of her four kids on the trip. She also said, “The stress of having to heal your body and having to worry about taking care of your kids or paying your bills — it’s just so overwhelming.” For a 26-year-old parent balancing treatment talk with family logistics, the move reads as a practical attempt to reduce the pressure she says is feeding the problem.

Hawaii Trip With Two Kids

Upon arrival, Matthews said, “I’m just so excited to be here. Positive vibes.” That matters because she paired the emotional reset with a concrete location change, not just a short break. She had already said, “I’m just surviving,” while describing life in Utah, and in the same stretch she talked about wanting to go to Switzerland for a detox retreat and even offered to pay for a follower’s flight and treatment at the center she planned to visit.

For Matthews, the immediate question is whether Hawaii gives her the breathing room she says Utah no longer did. The move puts her treatment choices, parenting load, and travel plans in the same frame, and it shows she is treating the flare-ups as a lifestyle issue she has to manage now, not later.