Meyrink gave up acting as a career in 1989, stating she wanted more out of life than the profession was offering. During this transition period she became interested in the practice of Zen Buddhism. She moved for a time to the Dominican Republic to be near family members living there. Meyrink later returned to her hometown of Vancouver, where in 1996 she met her Future husband John Dumbrille at the Zen Centre of Vancouver. Following their wedding, she and John began raising a family of three children (aged 25, 21, and 17, as of June 2016) and Meyrink kept and used her birth name.