
Coping at Christmas
Some prominent (M)ED experiencers, campaigners, and talented practitioners are offering a workshop based around yoga and compassion to help people and/or their carers & families tackle what is (speaking from…
Research Journal
Some prominent (M)ED experiencers, campaigners, and talented practitioners are offering a workshop based around yoga and compassion to help people and/or their carers & families tackle what is (speaking from…
[originally published pre-book publication] I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to be a binge-eater who is male…and fat. Gone are the days when my bingeing was…
My post for Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2020, and our third post in my series about books where the topical focus is male eating disorders, complement’s last month’s post. The…
In this case, of course, I’m referring to the apt but tritely wrought acronym for Male Anorexia Nervosa. Men with body image issues and anorexia have hit the media once…
I am honoured to have been mentioned by Mirror-Mirror.org. Helping to improve public understanding of the nature of male eating disorders is just as important as advancing new knowledge gleaned…
Thanks to everyone whom I met at the event at Sheffield Medical School. I was particularly struck by how welcoming everyone was and the high quality of the questions that…
There is a such a thing as a Severe and Enduring Eating Disorder (SEED). My own disorder as been severe at different points in my life, and has been heading…
I wrote a piece this month for the online ED magazine, Mirror-mirror.org. Using some of my qualitative analysis of published stories, written by men who have endured disordered eating, I…
Assessing the prevalence of disordered eating in males continues to be a complex puzzle. Below, I try to make sense of what we can learn from the research literature to…
It has been a goodly while since I updated my research journal because I’ve been finishing my PhD, which I submitted yesterday (excitingly). This week the media has had a…
Tomorrow I’m giving a lecture as part of University of Bradford’s Diversity Festival. This session explores society’s abiding desire for binary genders, the changing nature of 21st century masculinities and…
If you’ve read my EDAW posts, you’ll know that I’ve been trying in earnest to begin a recovery programme to free myself from the grip of this set of habits…