Michelle Green —navigating her way through fear and towards freedom by walking the Te Araroa Trail. Photo: Michelle Green

Through fear and toward freedom on Te Araroa

October 2020

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October 2020

Beset by anxiety, Michelle Green felt her life was spiralling out of control. But then she found tramping and the Te Araroa Trail.

There it was again: that unbridled sense of fear. It had followed me, a constant companion through every single one of the 1600km I’d hiked so far. It was ever at my back, a shadowy presence that chased me down the trail and often caught me. I could hardly move from my seated perch at […]
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