“I’m tough as hell and I can show up each day and keep fighting, but I’m also happy to go ‘I don’t feel good today’. I think there’s power in vulnerability,' says Nedd Brockmann. sarzberry
, is coming to an end for the year. But the stats around men’s mental health remain: one in 10 men around the world lives with an anxiety disorder; in the last decade, there has been a 30 per cent rise in the number of Australian men dying by suicide; and every 60 minutes, 60 men around the world are lost to suicide.
“Running across the country, it’s just a high,” he says. “When I’m Nedd Brockmann being the bloke who’s running across the country, I feel like I’m the most powerful man on earth. It felt like I could take on the world.”Now he is once again unable to run as his body repairs itself from the multiple injuries he sustained, and he has lost the sense of power running gave him.
“There was a bit of imposter syndrome of ‘I have never led a business of this size and I need to show up in a certain way to show I’ve got it’,” says the 44-year-old father of four. “I often feel that pressure of being pulled in a lot of different directions and trying to do all of those things at a hundred per cent.”
For instance, the idea that needing support equates to weakness. “What bulls---,” says Gunsberg, who has been afor four years. “Why would we limit our brothers and fathers and sons to a tiny little bitty narrow lens of operation?” Getting out on his bike and feeling the sun and wind on his face helps him to get back into his body, as does breathing slowly extending each exhalation.
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