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Read moreChris's Story
Having gone through a period of what could only be described as melancholy, where I was struggling with highs and lows with moods and understanding following the loss of my mother, I was put in touch with StrongMen through my company's employee assistance program.
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Read moreChris Tuczemskyi's Story
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Read moreGeorge Horne's Story
My name is George Horne. I am a 24 Year Army veteran in 2021 my wife of 21 years fell ill and after a 3 week stay in intensive care her body unfortunately gave up and she passed away.
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Read moreSanjay's Story
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Read moreJordan Wainwright's Story
My name is Jordan and I am one of the 20 people who are aiming to climb Kilimanjaro in October.
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Read moreSam Baker's Story
Families can deal with loss so differently and this was evident when Sam and Graham lost Scarlett unexpectedly at 39 weeks just before Christmas 2009.
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Read moreAndrew Allen's Story
Hi my name's Andy. I think the first question people seem to ask is what is StrongMen, and there's a usual answer of it's a bereavement charity. But to me, it's so much more than that.
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Read moreDavid Gooch's Story
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Read moreGary McAuley's Story
Hi my names Gary and I’m from Glasgow, I lost my beautiful wife Laura to secondary breast cancer in march 2023 after a 4 year battle and at that point I was at an all time low. Laura was always my strength with how she went about her journey.
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Read moreStuart Barter's Story
My name is Stu and in October of 2017 I lost my wife to breast cancer. It was quite sudden and from us officially finding out she had stage four metastatic breast cancer to her passing was just over two weeks.
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Read moreDavid Robertson's Story
22 years ago, I suffered the first big loss in my life. My friend was killed by a car while walking home from a party. This sent me into a spiral which I have yet to come out of.
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Read moreGary Clark's Story
Hi, my name is Gary and I lost my sister, Jo, very suddenly in March 2021. The devastating news that my beautiful sister had passed away and her beautiful son, turned my world upside down.
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Read moreGeoff Browne's Story
I took advantage of StrongMen counselling after losing my son and brother within 3 months last year.
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Read moreBrendan Shryane's Story
During lockdown 2020 my wife and I fell pregnant with our second child. 9 months later after a very scary pregnancy filled with complications and unknowns our son Archie was born on the 12th January; my birthday.
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Read moreKenny Morrison's Story
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Read moreJames Shoebridges's Story
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Read moreMatt Davies' Story
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Read moreMark Hart's Story
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Read moreMichael Hall's Story
In April 2021 I received the worst possible news a parent can get; a phone call from my then wife & a police officer to tell me my eldest son had been stabbed in an unprovoked knife attack.
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Read moreChris Dawson's Story
It was May 2022 when the worst thing a father can experience happened, after a very short illness we lost our 24 year old daughter to HLH.
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Read moreCraig's Story
The weekender was an unforgettable experience that enabled everyone to share their past and current experiences in a safe, comfortable, and unpressurised environment and only if they wanted to.
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Read moreMatt Richardson's StrongMen Story
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Read moreMartin Lester's StrongMen story
Having worked with Efrem since 2007 I had seen first hand the devastating impact the loss of James had on him, Sharon and their family.
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Read moreRoss Riley's StrongMen story
On Christmas Eve 2019, my 2 year old son, Oscar, passed away from a brain tumour, leaving my wife and I with our other son who was only 7 weeks old. My world was shattered and left a gaping hole in my life which was filled with love and purpose.
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Read moreMichael Hall’s StrongMen story
Michael felt his future was all planned and mapped out for him, until every parent’s worst nightmare happened, and from that moment his life took a drastic unforeseen detour in a very unexpected and different direction.
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Read moreBen Kennedy’s StrongMen story
Loss in any circumstance and age is enough. But to wake up as a happy 32 year old husband and father with our second baby on the way, then by the end of that day to have suffered the unexpected loss of my wife and baby and facing the task of delivering that news to our four year old Son, left me completely devastated and lost.
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Read moreRachel McDonald
For any couple to lose their first child at an early age is utterly devastating. But for your second to be still born is beyond what most of us could ever comprehend.
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Read moreGemma Hamblin
Coming to terms with the death of a loved one is difficult, but when Dan Richards lost his brother Jack to a terminal illness in 2016 he was utterly devastated.
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Read moreAdam Lee's StrongMen story - in his own words
Coming to terms with the death of a loved one is difficult, but when Dan Richards lost his brother Jack to a terminal illness in 2016 he was utterly devastated.