Letting Go of Perfect: A Gay Man’s Guide to Healing from Body Dysmorphia: A Gay Man’s Guide to Healing from Body Dysmorphia - Brossura

Oshaughnessy, Daniel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1805017985 ISBN 13: 9781805017981

Casa editrice: Jessica Kingsley Pub, 2025

Riassunto

Body dysmorphia affects a significant number of gay men, driven by rigid beauty ideals and social expectations around masculinity. The pursuit of a 'perfect' body can quickly become all-consuming, leading to harmful patterns around food, fitness, and self-worth.

Daniel O'Shaughnessy understands this not just as a clinician but as someone who has lived it. Drawing on his experience with extreme dieting, compulsive exercise, and steroid use, he brings a rare honesty to a subject still too often shrouded in silence. His professional insight as a nutritionist and mindset coach is shaped by this lived reality, offering both empathy and expertise.

This book explores why body dysmorphia is so pervasive in the gay community, unpacks its psychological roots, and provides practical tools to help you challenge toxic patterns and begin to build a more respectful, sustainable relationship with your body.

Whether you're caught in cycles of comparison or simply exhausted by the pressure to look a certain way, this is a grounded guide to thinking differently, living more freely, and letting go of the need to be 'perfect.'

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Informazioni sull'autore

Daniel O'Shaughnessy is an award-winning nutritionist and mindset coach based in London, UK. He has been in clinical practice for over 10 years as a qualified nutritionist and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner and previously worked as an addiction therapist for 8 years. He recently completed a master's degree in transdisciplinary practice, focusing on psychedelics, mental health and lived experience. Daniel has shared his experience of body dysmorphia in articles for Attitude, Metro and USA Today and appeared on BBC 1's The One Show with a segment on body dysmorphia and anabolic steroid use. He is the author of Naked Nutrition: An LGBTQ+ Guide to Diet and Lifestyle.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Jessica Kingsley Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1805017985
• ISBN 13: 9781805017981
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile