Warning: This story contains references to suicide and rape, and may be triggering for some readers.
A Kiwi woman advocating on behalf of sexual violence survivors says eight years on after her own assault, she still carries mental and physical trauma.
Laura Eustace, 25, today uses social media to have really hard conversations in a hope to support others through her own experience. Throughout my life, there has been a lot of trauma I have gone through I felt no one really talked about, Eustace tells Newshub. It s become a passion project for me to talk about these things because for a very long time I felt very ashamed.