As Movember moves evermore towards winter, our Mo Bros are continuing their efforts to raise money for men’s health awareness.
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Movember Foundations and The Good Men Project have partnered up in honor of raising awareness for men’s health issues!
Join us for November and watch our Mo Bros continue to grow their slow growing mos! Check back daily for updates on their facial hair and the issues that these Bros are talking about this Movember!
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Benjamin Mullen
Daily Mo Update
Finally, a breakthrough of sorts. After shaving today, my wife spotted it when she got home from work. She came through the door and we said all the usual “hello, how was your day” stuff and then she stopped. The looked at me with this little smile and kissed me deeply for a moment, then pulled away. Back again, smirking at me, she looks down at my lip and says “so there it is, huh”. She likes it for now, she’ll like it even better when there’s a beard with it. Not that she said that but I know what she likes.
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Movember Awareness
Growing a Mo is not always easy. It takes a bit of love and patience and keeping in mind that you are doing this for the good of other people. I know why I’m doing this— for people like me who have suffered and still are with their depression. Find out more about how YOUR Mo can help at MoBro.com!
While depression can be caused by a chemical imbalance, a lot of men, and people in general, also struggle with a type of self defeating, cyclical depression. Somewhere along the line, negativity was impressed upon them and reinforced to the point where the voice inside their own head echoes the sentiment. The negativity depresses them and causes self doubt. The self doubt depresses them even more. If we could just shake that negativity out, perhaps the depression would fade. For those of you who can relate to this: “Beliefs drive behaviors and self-limiting beliefs lead to self-defeating behaviors. Believe in yourself and your abilities.” If you don’t stop beating yourself up or predicting your own failure, you will continue down this destructive path. For those of you who know someone who struggles with this: help them to understand this concept, and reassure them that their doubts and demons that they fight everyday are unfounded.
Apropo for the time of year. Also, probably couldn’t find this many, not-yet-decayed leaves, on the ground any other time of year… Mustache and beard are past the itchy point. Now they are into the SUPER ITCHY territory. Ooooh yes!
It was around 50 today. Beautiful for my tastes: cold enough to wear a light jacket, but warm enough to work up a sweat if you wanted to (and not freeze). I’m an oven all year long, so I enjoy the cooler (not cold) months.
Movember Awareness
Everything in life comes in a circle. Time. Space… Circles. Seriously though, our lives are comprised of billions of interlocking circles. We’re like giant Venn diagrams of everything we’ve ever done and everything we’ve ever wanted to be. All of it goes around and comes around— including depression.
Lately I have been caught in this cycle. The recovery cycle one faces after a traumatic experience: I am depressed, then sad, then angry, then depressed, then sad, then angry– with moments of peace so infrequent and so minuscule that they might as well not even be there. I guess they are there to remind me that I’m alive and that there is hope, but this cycle feels never ending.
The truth is, cycles can be broken. Not EVERYTHING goes on forever. Things can be changed. The Law of Conservation of Energy applies to emotions and mental states as well as the spacial universe. With time, all darkness within us can be changed into light.
Dyllon Charron was an editor for The Good Men Project in 2015, when this spectacular group of people helped change his life. He is a martial artist, a Sci-fi & Comic book author, a pianist, and a seeker of zen; which can be found in a balanced breakfast. By day he is your friendly neighborhood master of shenanigans, by night, a madman behind a keyboard. You can tweet to him @ArbiterHavak or email him at [email protected].
