Research Journal
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…
Beginning to earnestly work on my recovery again has reminded me of a sad but essential fact – working toward recovery is exhausting – and that’s only after four days….
A long time ago, my therapist asked me if my being vegetarian was more related to my eating disorder than it was to a conscious lifestyle decision around the avoidance…
So, as Fairburn (see yesterday’s post) rightly predicted, my heart sank when it turned out that the first step in his 6 step programme was to begin monitoring my food…
As it’s Eating Disorders Awareness Week, I wanted to mark the occasion by doing something a little different. So, instead of editing excerpts from my research journal I’m going to…
As part of my research into male disordered eating, at the end of last year I read an article: ‘Perceptions of the causes of eating disorders: a comparison of individuals…
‘Millstone’ is the new documentary by Men Get Eating Disorders Too* and director Florence Pellanci. It tells the stories of men who speak about their experiences from illness to recovery including…
I’m now on Twitter. Follow me to see the results of my research, how I’m sharing this & the male eating disorders work that I’m involved in.
Bigorexia is the nifty media-friendly soundbite term that doesn’t truly do justice to what men experience when they go through this debilitating condition currently known as muscle dysmorphia. Me-oh-my –…
Recently I spoke to a writer who was investigating the phenomenon of orthorexia for a piece in Men’s Health magazine. The result of Dan’s work was a thought-provoking, carefully framed read….
