Letting Go of Perfect - A Gay Man’s Guide to Healing from Body Dysmorphia Book
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RELEASE DATE - 21 OCTOBER 2025
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.'
| Author | Daniel O'Shaughnessy |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN |
99781805017981 |
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