Strong Men know when to ask for Support - Episode 99 - Efrem Brynin

weMove Podcast

Be curious about what you read and who you train with.

This weeks podcast is a result of a t shirt a guy would wear when we trained alongside each other @whitehartcrossfit.

Efrem Brynin trains @whitehartcrossfit and I remember seeing his T shirt with the logo and slogan Strongmen on it. I got it but I also didn’t until I began to see a few more around in the box. So I got curious about what it meant and what it was for.

Turns out Strongmen is a bereavement charity Efrem founded with Daniel Cross after being connected by one of the SAS Who Dares Wins team as they had both been on the show and suffered from unexpected loss.

Hearing this it felt right to do what we can to share what they are doing and how just because culture has shown that men deal with life events like bereavement in one way, does not mean they aren’t looking for a more connected way for them to express the rise and fall of grief and bereavement which can literally make a once stable world fall apart around the person.

We are all strong, and culture often misrepresents what it means to be strong, vulnerable, ask for help etc. Strength, true strength of the mental and physical kind is being able to ask for help and support. All of this is easy to say, but harder to do. As Efrem says when something like this happens “You know in your Self that something isn’t right, but difficult conversations and difficult conversations”

To make this progress the person needs to feel safe to do so and that is exactly why Strongmen exists, to create a safe space where in this case men can be around like minds and receive support and connection to manage the grieving process and build their life back. They do this through weekend retreats and also a peer 2 peer telephone service called Man2Man which started during the lockdown of 2020.

We will all face bereavement and loss at some point in our lives, knowing there is a network to hold you as you experience the grieving process is invaluable.

If you need to make a call or know someone that might, then check out www.strongmen.org.uk

Thanks Efrem