#739 Male Body Images Issues - Ryan Sheldon
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Sheldon (@RealRyanSheldon) is a speaker, a model, an eating disorder advocate, and the author of F*ckboys Are Boring: A Gay Man’s Guide to Dating (For Everyone). He shares excerpts from his book and talks about his lifelong journey to self-acceptance, through eating disorders, body image issues, and dating all the wrong men. He also shares tips on healthy ways to look for partners.
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| 0:52.8 | Welcome to episode 739 with my guest, Ryan Sheldon. |
| 0:58.0 | I welcome you. |
| 0:59.1 | Gracie welcomes you. |
| 1:00.6 | The whole neighborhood welcomes you. |
| 1:03.3 | It's, uh, think of this as, shut up. |
| 1:12.0 | I was about to try to go into some neighborhood Fourth of July barbecue riff, and I was like, what am I doing? |
| 1:21.1 | Just get into the show. |
| 1:23.4 | I'm so fucking anxious right now. |
| 1:26.2 | I just, |
| 1:28.3 | uh, I don't know what the word is yesterday, |
| 1:32.5 | but I played civilization for so many hours. |
| 1:40.6 | I didn't go to the gym. |
| 1:42.7 | I canceled on the person I was supposed to meet there. |
| 1:47.4 | I just went through the motions, man. The last two days, I've just felt blue. And it's like, |
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