‘Barber Therapy’
Sleep When Your Dead (SWYD) in partnership with Lions Barber Collective (LBC)
The LBC is a group of barbers coming together to raise awareness for suicide prevention.
The collective runs Barbertalk, a training initiative to teach barbers how to spot the warning signs of anxiety and depression, enabling them to effectively listen and give advice.
Already with a large following on social media, the collective hopes to spread the word and smash the taboo subject of mental health, especially among men.
They say that “By showing that we are willing to talk about this subject is making a huge difference already.”
Alex Myles getting a haircut at SWYD barbershop
Guise behind the scenes
Who are we?
A well-being magazine for men in South Wales.
The final product: Guise Magazine’s print copies
What is our aim?
We want to get men talking about mental health and make self-care a more accessible reality for men.
What to expect from us
– Helpful information on how to get around the difficulty of opening up to friends.
– Interviews with men who have experience with ill mental health, and how they get around this.
– Tips on how to make self-care more accessible.
2 days until we launch #guisemag issue 01!! We’re excited, are you?? pic.twitter.com/6mDD3je13T
— Guise Magazine (@guise_mag) December 8, 2019
Dirty Sanchez the reunion
Matt will be reuniting with Dainton, Pancho and Joycey from Dirty Sanchez for a screening of their movie and a Q&A at Tramshed on the 12 December, 7pm.
The former Dirty Sanchez star sat down with Guise Magazine to talk about life post-Sanchez and his next vegan cookbook
Matthew Pritchard’s second book, Dirty Vegan: Another Bite, will be on bookshelves from 12 December. His accompanying television series returns to BBC One Wales in January.
Dirty Vegan 2 is set to include a variety of new vegan recipes showcasing Matt’s wicked personality. Waitrose Magazine calls the recipes universally appealing, “hearty, casually presented and flavour-packed.”
Although starting out as a professional skateboarder, Matt, from Cardiff, made a name for himself with Dirty Sanchez, a television series where he and three friends participated in dangerous stunts and pranks.
Undergoing somewhat of a transformation, ditching the hedonism and drugs, he now seeks thrills in endurance athletics and a super-clean vegan diet.
Matt opened up to Guise Magazine at his barber shop in Cardiff, Sleep When You’re Dead (SWYD), which he regards as a communal place where men often surprisingly open up and offload.
Guise Magazine is a brand new well-being magazine for men that focuses on mental health, created by a group of trainee journalists at Cardiff University.
In his interview with Guise, he talked about his struggles with mental health, brought on by heavy drug-use synonymous with Sanchez, “Doing that for so many years on the trot slowly and surely catches up with you.
“I realised I’d been living in a dream for ten years, you could just see it all slipping away. It was a hard pill to swallow,” he admitted.
Matt also explained the benefits of exercising and how he finds it the best thing for his mental health, “Now whenever I’m feeling down, I know what will fix me and that will be going for a run.”
As well as an interview with Matt, the magazine covers many aspects of well-being and mental health, including how to talk to a friend who may be struggling and how to take care of yourself in simple ways at home, with quick healthy recipes and exercises.
You can read the interview with Matt in the magazine below and follow Guise Magazine on Instagram @guise.magazine and Twitter @guise_mag.
‘Barber Therapy’
Sleep When Your Dead (SWYD) in partnership with Lions Barber Collective (LBC)
The LBC is a group of barbers coming together to raise awareness for suicide prevention.
The collective runs Barbertalk, a training initiative to teach barbers how to spot the warning signs of anxiety and depression, enabling them to effectively listen and give advice.
Already with a large following on social media, the collective hopes to spread the word and smash the taboo subject of mental health, especially among men.
They say that “By showing that we are willing to talk about this subject is making a huge difference already.”
Alex Myles getting a haircut at SWYD barbershop
Guise behind the scenes
Who are we?
A well-being magazine for men in South Wales.
The final product: Guise Magazine’s print copies
What is our aim?
We want to get men talking about mental health and make self-care a more accessible reality for men.
What to expect from us
– Helpful information on how to get around the difficulty of opening up to friends.
– Interviews with men who have experience with ill mental health, and how they get around this.
– Tips on how to make self-care more accessible.
2 days until we launch #guisemag issue 01!! We’re excited, are you?? pic.twitter.com/6mDD3je13T
— Guise Magazine (@guise_mag) December 8, 2019
Dirty Sanchez the reunion
Matt will be reuniting with Dainton, Pancho and Joycey from Dirty Sanchez for a screening of their movie and a Q&A at Tramshed on the 12 December, 7pm.