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I came to my first session at a really low point. Didn't say much, just got in the water. Something about being freezing alongside other lads who were doing the same — it cracked something open. I've been going every Sunday since.
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I was properly sceptical. Five minutes after my first dip, sat around a fire with seven blokes I'd never met, I got it. The cold water strips away all the usual nonsense and you're just real with each other.
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The cold is the hook but the community is the thing. I've made proper mates here — the kind you don't usually make as an adult. It sounds simple but it genuinely changed things for me.
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Marcus
North London Chapter