By Breanna Gentile, Psychology Today, May 16, 2021
Maybe it was your lived experience, or maybe it was something you saw in the movies: sitting in the barber shop getting your haircut and talking about all sorts of things from funny to serious to ridiculous. For Lorenzo Lewis , founder of The Confess Project, it was his lived experience and his muse for creating “America's First Mental Health Barbershop Movement.” I had the pleasure to chat with Lorenzo and understand how The Confess Project is reimagining the mental health system, why the barber shop, and what this movement actually does for the mental health of Black and Brown men and boys.
Pulling from lived experiences.
The barbershop wasn’t just a place to get your haircut for Lorenzo. It was a safe haven for a young Black man from the south who was born in prison to two incarcerated parents, had gone through his own incarceration and lost his dad at the age of ten years old.
"I always felt disconnected, not only from my own community but from the White community. I never felt really included."
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