The Mo and the Fury

Crocheted beards. All the ruggedness of Oliver Queen. What are our Mo Bros up to today?

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Movember Foundations and The Good Men Project have partnered up to bring you some epic mustache growing in honor of raising awareness for men’s health issues!

For all of this month, these gentlemen will be growing their best and most creative mustaches to help raise awareness for men’s health! Will these Mo Bros grow great mos? Check back daily for updates on their facial hair escapades and the issues that these great guys are talking about!

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Benjamin Mullen, tweet to him @_BKMullen

Daily Mo Update

It’s official, I’m going to learn how to crochet a beard to put on my face! Till thats completed thought I’ll start pushing my water and using a face wash to help the hair grow faster. Since its gonna take a while to grow my Mo, lets focus a tad more on the Mo Message.

Movember Awareness

Through my teens, dealing with depression was a strange process. By the time I was 20 I had been to a number of different doctors and a variety of medication till it worked out. The most important part of that whole process, and the process now that I am into adulthood and parenthood, is support. From my Wife, my Parents, my Brothers and my Friends. I’ve been lucky in how much support I’ve received from people I love and who love me. The complicated part is that there have been times when I felt no support at all.  I felt alone in a crowded room. But the truth is, even when you feel that way, there will always be someone to support you. You may just have to open your mind and your heart to accept that its there.

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Keith Sansoucy

Daily Mo Update

Stubble is starting to poke through. I can feel my ruggedness increasing by the hour. Although the skin feels rough, there’s something satisfying about this beard length.

Movember Awareness

Social anxiety can make life much more difficult and even lead to a rise in depression. It doesn’t help when people tell you to just be more positive, so here’s what I feel can actually help:

1) Make a list of situations that make you anxious and prioritize them from most stressful to least. Starting at the least stressful, try and accomplish these things one at a time through objective actions like “I’ll say hi to three people today.”

2) Don’t focus on reactions and results of social interactions, focus on the fact that you partook and are progressing through your fear.

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Dyllon Charron, tweet to him at @Arbiter_Havak

Daily Mo Update

And we have arrived! Three days is what it takes for my slow-growing mo to become comfortable on my face. That freshly shaved feeling, long since faded; that subtle sting of new hair breaking the surface, finally gone; I am well on my way to having a scruffy beard with all the ruggedness of Oliver Queen.

Movember Awareness

On my way to my therapist’s office, tears streaming down my face, I sing along to Bachata music as I cruise down the highway, hands trembling on the wheel. I’ve lost control of my life... I think as I pass a flower delivery truck and am instantly reminded of the woman that left me— the woman that I had been in love with most of my life, who cheated on me with our friend for months, and then left me alone.

Sometimes just the tragedies of our daily lives are enough to want to give up. Add the perils of mental health issues to the mix, and the world has just served you up a recipe for disaster. My life is a mess. I am constantly anxious and stressed— the world always feeling like it’s closing in on me. This pressure builds into a nerve-wracking anxiety that keeps me awake and keeps me idling in my life. I also have severe depression, and much like the other men in my family before me, I have been close to suicide many times in my life. I have tried to do this alone— to face this darkness by myself for many years. I cut out those close to me thinking that I was streamlining my efforts and hoping that with some added strength I could pull through on my own; but, it was never enough. I was always two steps behind my life and all I ever wanted to do was run.

It wasn’t until recently that I learned one of the most valuable lessons I’d ever learn— I am not alone. It’s not a fact that I have accepted and believe, it’s something that I have to perpetually remind myself of, because the most crippling feeling I have is feeling alone. And I do, all the time. Alone and worthless. Feelings that don’t easily go away. They take time, and they take effort to pound into dust that can be swept away on the wind. I’ve found that staying busy and having a routine makes all the difference. Working hard, playing harder, and throwing myself wholly into whatever it is that I do— this is what helps the most. Piano. Writing. Volunteering. Martial Arts— everything.

It’s Movember, and this month, like all the rest, do your best to remember (No, not the 5th of November)— That we are not alone!

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David Guba

Daily Mo Update