Our Mo Bros are finding ways to keep their freshly shaved faces warm in the crisp Autumn air!Â
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Movember Foundations and The Good Men Project have partnered up to bring you some epic mustache growing as well as to raise awareness for men’s health and mental health!Â
For all of November, these currently clean shaven gentlemen will be growing their best mustaches to help raise awareness! Will these Mo Bros grow great mos? Check back daily for updates on facial hair and the issues that these great guys are talking about!
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Benjamin Mullen
Daily Mo Update
It’s cold. Mega cold. Realistically its only around 50 degrees but without facial hair now its freezing. Needless to say it takes longer than a day for any serious growth (damn you genetics!!!!) but by the end of the month I’ll have something for you all to behold! In the meantime, don’t forget to go check out the Movember page and see what you can do to help raise awareness and funding for these great causes!
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Keith Sansoucy
Daily Mo Update
Surprisingly, my baby face went pretty under the radar today with the exception of 4 people. Two of them complimented me and said I should keep it, and one of them poking fun that I didn’t look old enough to have a career. All of them reacted predictably when I told them I was growing out my stach: “oh….that’s….ok.”
Movember Awareness
To expand on my thoughts from yesterday, I thought I’d start by sharing a personal experience. I’ve been training Boxing, Muay Thai, and Jiu Jistu for around a year now and some days I feel on top of the world: my body works right; I’m moving in the right ways; I’m avoiding punches; I’m scoring takedowns. More often though, I find myself constantly “humbled” by those who have been practicing the arts longer than I have. Sometimes at the end of class my body is tired, but my mind just gives up. I’m consumed by negative thoughts. I feel like a failure, like I’ll never get any better, like I haven’t learned anything at all. How am I supposed to achieve my goals when I can’t even throw a decent combo? Some nights I even come to the verge of tears. The mental brutality is too much to bear when you’ve just been choked out for 6 minutes.
In sports like these, it’s very easy to get caught in the macho view that only wussies talk about their feelings. Suck it up, chump. But for someone like me, who is consumed by this negativity 3/4 of the week, it is important I vent about it and get feedback and help from my mentors and training partners. A lot of them have been through it too and may have advice that can help me shake the negativity. Maybe I’m not doing as bad as I think. Either way, even in a sport where you punch each other’s lights out, you’re never too macho to get your mind right!
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Dyllon Charron
Daily Mo Update
It has definitely been a chillier day for my face here in New England. Day one was easy enough: I shaved, I enjoyed my smooth face inside all day (where it’s warm). But day two is much different… My face has become like Velcro; Sweaters, quilts, knitted things— basically everything sticks to me. I await a week from now when my face will calm down and become soft and warm once again! Though I am usually a clean shaven guy, I’ve been told I rock  mean few day scruff— I guess you’ll have to wait and see!
Movember Awareness
There is a history of mental illness in my family on both sides. Maternally, my grandfather has suffered from depression for his entire life. He’s been on medication since he was my age, and has been close to suicide multiple times. My grandmother suffers from bi-polar disorder and anxiety. Paternally, my grandmother is a recovering alcoholic suffering from depression and anxiety, and my grandfather died at the age of 21 in a drunk driving accident. I have not been able to discern the truth from my family, but he suffered from severe depression ( I have been led to believe that his drunk driving accident was actually a suicide as he was the only one involved). I am no stranger to these illnesses, and I know from what I suffer with, that there is help to be had!
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David Guba
Daily Mo Update
What helped me, even just a little? Doing more. So I did. I started a blog, went back to school, continued training Brazilian jiu jitsu, got chickens, planted a garden, and so on. I’m doing NaNoWriMo. I’m often tired, but satisfied with how I’ve invested my time. I make sure I’m not busy for the sake of being busy, or as escapism. No, I am intentionally shouldering more.
I’m a strong person, but we all have our breaking points. To be honest, I could use more meaningful friendships to help spread out the burden, but I’m working on it. I would rather have a group of solid dudes to be strong with than be strong alone.
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Curious why we are growing these (not yet evident) mustaches? Find out what Movember is all about!
Check out The Good Men Project‘s other Movember mustache shenanigans with today’s Mustache-a-Day!
Donate to We Mustache For The Truth and help these MoBros raise money towards combating the men’s health issues they are advocating for this Movember!
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Photo:Flickr/Cansu Cender
