New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

‘Our 2200km Healing Hike’

There was a time, when grappling with a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis, Victoria Bruce felt like she was falling into a black hole with no way out.

Exhausted and overwhelmed as she faced her childhood trauma while juggling a busy career and parenting, the solo mother realised the only time she felt at peace was tramping in nature.

And so a plan was hatched to take six months off and walk the length of Aotearoa – with her daughter Emilie by

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