Daniel O'Shaughnessy

Daniel O'Shaughnessy 🍎 Nutrition • 🧠 Mindset • 🌈 Healing
Body Dysmorphia • Queer Trauma • Breathwork
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🗣 Loud complainer of silent battles

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—i

t’s about how we nurture every part of ourselves. I support people through a joined-up approach that brings together nutrition, mindset, and healing.

07/06/2026

Would you let your mother watch Q***r as Folk?

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02/06/2026

Pride always brings up mixed feelings for me.

I love what it represents, but I’d be lying if I said there haven’t been years where it also amplified every insecurity I had.

The pressure to be happier.
The pressure to be more social.
The pressure to feel proud.
The pressure to love myself.

For a long time, that last one felt impossible.

People would tell me to love myself, accept myself, embrace myself. But when you’re struggling with your mental health, your body image, or your sense of worth, those ideas can feel so far away that they almost become another thing to fail at.

That’s why the message in this video resonated with me.

Sometimes the most radical thing we can do isn’t improve ourselves.

It’s stop fighting ourselves.

I’ve spent a long time trying to find language for the space between nutrition, q***r health, body image, stress, shame,...
01/06/2026

I’ve spent a long time trying to find language for the space between nutrition, q***r health, body image, stress, shame, s*x, recovery and the body.

For me, q***r nutritional wellbeing is about looking at health with enough context. Not just the food someone eats, but the life that food sits inside. Not just the symptom, but the story around it. Not just what someone “should” do, but what has made care feel difficult, loaded or unsafe in the first place.

This is the work I’ve been developing through my clinical practice, my own healing, and the writing of The Q***r Guide to Nutrition & Lifestyle.

The book comes out in August 2026, but I’ll be sharing more of the thinking behind it here over the next few months.

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Six years of Wallis. Six years of being loved by a tiny creature who somehow saw through every mask I was still wearing....
17/05/2026

Six years of Wallis. Six years of being loved by a tiny creature who somehow saw through every mask I was still wearing.

I thought I was giving her a home, but she gave me something back that I didn’t know I still needed: softness, safety, routine, ridiculous joy and the feeling of being chosen every single day.

Happy gotcha day, my little girl.

I realised it was probably time to properly introduce myself here, especially because this page has become a mix of heal...
15/05/2026

I realised it was probably time to properly introduce myself here, especially because this page has become a mix of health, healing, body image, plant medicine, q***r life and my dog, Wallis, doing most of the heavy lifting.

I’m Daniel O’Shaughnessy. My work began in nutrition and functional medicine, but it has become much more about the relationship between the body, the nervous system, identity, culture and the lives we have had to live. I’m interested in the places where health advice becomes too tidy, because real people are rarely tidy.

A lot of what I share here comes from clinical practice, and a lot comes from lived experience. I try to be honest about the parts of healing that are usually edited out, because I know what it is to use control, perfectionism, performance and self-improvement as a way of trying to feel safe or acceptable. That honesty is part of the work for me, and it shapes the way I speak about health, healing and the body.

I’m the author of Letting Go of Perfect: A Gay Man’s Guide to Healing from Body Dysmorphia and The Q***r Guide to Nutrition and Lifestyle (August 2026), two books that sit at the centre of this work from different angles.

And then there is Wallis, who continues to remind me that devotion, humour, routine and softness are not separate from wellbeing.

Follow for health and healing without the performance.

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