Daniel O'Shaughnessy

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Daniel O'Shaughnessy 🧠 Nutrition • Mindset • Healing
🌈 I Write Books on Queer Health
🌿 Science • Lived Experience • Dogs 🐶
📖 The Queer Guide to Nutrition & Lifestyle

I’m a London-based, award-winning nutritionist and mindset coach with over a decade of clinical experience, following a previous career in addiction counselling. My journey into nutrition began with personal struggles, including skin concerns and a long history of weight challenges dating back to childhood. With over a decade of experience, I’ve learnt that true health extends beyond what we eat—it’s about how we nurture every part of ourselves. I support people through a joined-up approach that brings together nutrition, mindset, and healing.

20/10/2026

I’ve had comments about my body that stayed in my head for years, and I’ve also spent years changing my body partly because I thought that if I looked “good enough”, I could somehow make myself less vulnerable to them.

I don’t think healing means getting to a point where nothing anybody says ever hurts. For me, it’s been about understanding why certain comments land so deeply, and not automatically handing that person the power to decide how I eat, train or feel about myself afterwards.

People can still be cruel. I just don’t want their cruelty becoming my next instruction.

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Last week I had a wobble after getting a royalty statement that was lower than I’d hoped, and suddenly I was questioning...
18/10/2026

Last week I had a wobble after getting a royalty statement that was lower than I’d hoped, and suddenly I was questioning whether I should stay in q***r health, diversify, reinvent myself, do something safer.

The irony is that I already left a much more conventional, stable version of nutrition because there was always a part of me missing from the work, and now I’ve written two books about the things I actually care about. A younger version of me would have been in awe, yet I’m very good at moving the goalposts and focusing on what hasn’t happened yet.

I’m still working on becoming less incredibly alert to whether people approve of the things I care about, but I believe in my work, I believe in the books, and I believe in the work behind them.

Through all the healing work and medicine retreats, I keep coming back to the same lesson of trust and surrender, and somehow I never quite master it.

I think I just need to believe in what I’m building. ❤️

14/10/2026

One thing I’m noticing is how quickly I still feel responsible for the atmosphere in a room.

If it’s awkward, flat, or someone else seems uncomfortable, my instinct is to fix it. Usually by making a joke.

I’m trying to work out who I am when I don’t.

13/10/2026

I had some new people join me recently so I wanted to share what my little baby was like as a puppy. This was the day she found her voice and also the day I knew I was under her little paw.

12/10/2026

Nutrition and HIV is a subject that still comes with plenty of misconceptions, particularly around what people should and shouldn’t eat.

In The Q***r Guide to Nutrition and Lifestyle, I explore HIV and nutrition in more detail, looking beyond dietary advice to consider the wider realities of living with HIV, including stigma, body image and psychological wellbeing.

The book is available now where you get your books from.

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11/10/2026

This is uncomfortable to admit because the book I’m talking about is Letting Go of Perfect, and I’m incredibly proud of it.

But I got my royalty statement this week and it was hard not to look at the numbers and think: is this actually working?

That’s the bit I’m struggling with. I genuinely can’t tell whether I’m having the wobble you have just before something starts to take off, or whether I’m being given information I need to pay attention to.

I’ve put years into q***r health because I believe the work matters. I still do. But passion projects don’t pay the rent, and at some point belief has to meet reality.

I don’t want to walk away from something simply because it hasn’t happened quickly enough. But I also don’t want to spend years forcing a version of my career because I’m emotionally attached to what I hoped it would become.

So I’m somewhere between keep going and maybe listen to what this is telling you.

And I genuinely don’t know which one is right yet. I just know I hate admitting failure. ♥️

06/10/2026

Wait for the squeak at the end

We did it Joe.Best seller status unlocked ✅ ***rbookstagram
05/10/2026

We did it Joe.

Best seller status unlocked ✅

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