Five years after her dramatic rescue from Maui's Makawao Forest Reserve, Amanda Eller told ABC News she's continuing to heal from the traumatic experience.
Lost for 17 days in a Hawaii forest reserve, most of it with a broken leg and burns to her feet so severe they almost required amputation, Amanda Eller held out hope someone was coming to rescue her.from Maui's Makawao Forest Reserve, Eller told ABC News she's continuing to heal from what was a traumatic, life-changing experience.
Unbeknownst to her, the case drew attention on social media and national news, and a search effort funded with the help of donations amassed more than a thousand volunteers. Reflecting on that moment now, Eller said she was in rough shape physically, but was feeling good emotionally and spiritually after her experience in the forest.
Eller said she left Maui about six months after her rescue and spent time with family before going to India for several months to undergo training to help process the trauma she experienced in the forest and after her rescue. "What I noticed is there's a lot of people that had left the island afterward, and I just started feeling the call, too, that maybe I'm not meant to be here at this time," she said. "I believe certain people are there to help, and maybe that's not me.""I feel like my nervous system is more stable here, and I wasn't meant to hold space for that healing process ," she said.
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