I grew up looking at images of ‘heroin chic’ supermodels, for whom nothing tasted better than how thin felt. 1990s beauty standards were defined by Kate Moss’s protruding ribs, while teen girls’ magazines warned of an epidemic of anorexia and bulimia. https://www.flickr.com/photos/9355127@N07/35710732331/in/photostream/ The term body-shaming hadn’t been coined yet, but the rise of magazines outlining [...]
Remember Lauree, whose story I wrote about recently after we featured her Mom Sharon on the show? There has been a lot of media follow-up of her story including in the Evening Echo and in the Irish Examiner RTE Drivetime followed up and interviewed Sharon last week. Hopefully this will bring her plight to the national stage. Listen back: [...]
In all the recent election debates, there was just one mention of mental health. Only one party (Fianna Fáil) gave much more than a paragraph to the subject in its manifesto. Nobody won or lost a seat based on it, although it’s been acknowledged now for quite some time that both the health service and the [...]
