, and mental illness, one thing allowed him to feel anchored and safe: his weekly visits to his barber. “My barber was the one who could really bail me out of this kind of mental agony that I had been going through,” he reflects. “He was one of the few people in my life that became a mentor.”In 2016, Lorenzo recognized that his experiences with his barber had the potential to change the world.
Today, over 200 barbers across 16 U.S. cities have joined the mission of the Barber Coalition. Companies like Gillette and research institutions like Harvard Medical School have coupled with the organization, leading to a surge in its growth. For the last year, Dr. Justin Adam Gelzhiser, a Harvard Medical School researcher and visiting scientist at the Harvard T.H. School for Public Health, has been interviewing barbers from The Confess Project.
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Nice article! This confirms the “Barbershop Experience”