Project Peace and PRSD Champion Men’s Mental Health this Movember

Beyond the acquainted moustaches of Movember, Project Peace is dedicating this November to addressing the essential and sometimes difficult subject of males’s psychological well being. This month serves as a significant reminder that fostering open conversations and supportive environments is important for the well-being of our college students, workers, and neighbours.

We are proud to share a particular initiative led by Project Peace Success Coaches Darcy Patterson and Miranda Kole, and delivered to life by means of the vulnerability of group members and PRSD workers. This collaboration highlights the challenges males face and, most significantly, empowers them to hunt the help they want.

At the core of this significant message are the candid phrases shared by PRSD Student Support Worker and Educational Assistant Justin Dicks. His highly effective testimony is centred on the core truths of vulnerability and connection.

Justin opens the dialog with a right away and pressing name to motion. His phrases function the direct encouragement many males may have to beat the preliminary hurdle of reaching out:

“If this message reaches you and gives you that push, or that motivation, or even that excuse to ask for help, then do it. Don’t wait. Do it today. Do it now.”

The video goes on to handle a number of the damaging cultural myths surrounding males’s psychological well being. Justin passionately rejects the dangerous requirements of the previous, insisting on a brand new, more healthy definition of power centred round emotional intelligence and the willingness to make the most of assets:

“I think the old narrative that, you’re a man, you know, toughen up, I think we need to shed that. I believe strongly that if you’re a man, you need to get help.”

In the video’s conclusion, Justin is seen one final time talking a few uncooked, private reflection that validates the life-changing influence of accepting help. He ties his personal journey into the common wrestle of avoiding vulnerability:

“It took about 15 years of me searching for something that I knew I wasn’t going to find by myself. But again, it gave me the excuse to just not try. And only recently did I accept help. And, to be honest, it saved my life.”

This sincere admission is essentially the most highly effective takeaway we will share this Movember. 

The Peace River School Division and Project Peace encourages everybody to internalize Justin’s story, and the messages shared by the opposite males on this video, and know that accepting assist isn’t solely essential but in addition life-saving.

Watch the Message & Find Support

We encourage you to look at the total video and share this highly effective message inside your community:

Watch the Men’s Mental Health Video right here:

If you or somebody you recognize is struggling, reaching out is the primary and most crucial step. Please make the most of the assets out there in our group. An inventory of those assets is out there HERE.