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MOVING FORWARD FOR Baby Charlie

CW // Mental Health, Depression

TRM would like to advise that this article focuses on Scott Wilson’s lived experience, and therefore discusses mental health, grief and child loss. We understand that this discussion may be difficult for those in our community who also suffer from these experiences, and have included support services at the end of the article.

If the ability to push through pain is part of the criteria that makes an ultra runner, Scott Wilson can tick at least one box.

The self-described under-trained novice pushes through one of life’s greatest pains every day – the loss of a child.

Scott’s son Charlie passed

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