This Walk Will Change You

Wild meets The Body Keeps the Score—with a deeply dysfunctional, wildly funny family walking the Camino de Santiago together.

After years of distance from her chaotic childhood, Lauren Duke invites her fractured family to walk across Spain—discovering along the way that movement may be the key to healing wounds the mind alone cannot fix.

What happens when you walk 500 miles with the family you once tried to escape?

In This Walk Will Change You, Lauren Duke invites her fractured family to join her on the Camino de Santiago—one of the world’s most iconic pilgrimages. Raised in a chaotic home shaped by addiction and instability, Lauren spent years outrunning her past. But as the siblings navigate northern Spain together, the journey becomes something far more complicated—and far more meaningful—than a long walk.

At once deeply moving and laugh-out-loud funny, this unforgettable memoir explores trauma, resilience, and the surprising power of putting one foot in front of the other.