Ne Attus for Mdfulns Practice Gay Men Can Implement Today - The Centre for Gay Counsellg

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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• GAY MEN’S MDFULNS AND SELF CARE
• NE ATTUS FOR MDFULNS PRACTICE GAY MEN CAN IMPLEMENT TODAY
• THE MEDIATG ROLE OF BODY ACCEPTANCE EXPLAG THE RELATN OF MDFULNS, SELF-COMPASSN AND MDFUL EATG TO BODY IMAGE GAY MEN AND BISEXUAL MEN
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• MDFULNS FOR GAY MEN: HOW TO GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD AND BE MORE ENGAGED IN LIFE
• THE WELL TRAED MDA 6-WEEK TRODUCTN TO MDFULNS WH GNY GAYIN THIS LIVE, VIRTUAL URSE, YOU’LL GROW SIGHT AND CLARY AS YOU LEARN TO APPLY THE FOUNDATNS OF MDFULNS, CULTIVATG YOUR OWN LM, CENTERED, EMBODIED PRENCE.WHENENROLLMENT OPENS OCTOBER 2, 2023.COURSE DAT: OCT 15–NOV 19, 2023.6 LIVE CLASS, SUNDAY AFTERNOONS OM 12–2PM EST.WHERELIVE, VIA ZOOMJO THE WALISTWE CAN CHOOSE PRENCE SO WE DON’T MISS THE MOMENTS OF OUR LIV.WE CAN CHOOSE KDNS AND TO ACT WISELY SO THAT WE - AND THOSE AROUND - SUFFER LS.WE CAN CULTIVATE AN UNWAVERG GROUND OF WELL-BEG THAT IS OUR FOUNDATN AND OUR HOME - NO MATTER THE STORMS THAT LIFE BRGS.WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT?MDFULNS AND MEDATN ENABLE TO BRG THE POWER OF AWARENS TO OUR THOUGHTS, FEELGS, AND ACTNS. YOU N CHOOSE HOW YOU RPOND TO OUR NER AND OUTER LIFE. I'LL SHOW YOU HOW.WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT?WHAT YOU'LL LEARN"MDFULNS BRGS AWARENS TO WHAT YOU ARE DOG, AND WH THAT CLARY THE POSSIBILY OF CHOICE. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE ALL HAVE THE NATE ABILY TO BE AWARE. IT IS THE NATURE OF OUR MD. HOWEVER MOST PEOPLE’S MDS ARE UNTRAED, SO THE WAY MANY OF E OUR ATTENTN IS LS THAN OPTIMAL. WH MDFULNS MEDATN, YOU N LEARN TO TERCEPT UNHELPFUL, UNWANTED HABS AND CULTIVATE POSIVE ON. AS YOU LEARN TO DO THAT THE LABORATORY OF MEDATN, YOU N TRANSLATE THAT SKILL TO THE RT OF YOUR LIFE."MARK COLEMANGNY GAY, CERTIFIED MDFULNS TEACHER
• SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS
• AN AFFIRMATIVE MDFULNS APPROACH FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. Surrogacy is illegal Italy, and gay marriage has not been legalized. “There is no discrimatn agast children, ” Fay Mister Eugenia Roccella told parliament when she troduced the bill June, explag that the children of gay upl would have accs to school and medil servic jt like those who only have one livg parent.

Kev Maxen is gay. No NFL ach had ever publicly e out as gay, so Maxen, an assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, kept quiet about his sexual that ma him angry — at himself. Men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

Former San Francis 49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers beme the NFL’s first ach to e out as gay 2017.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

Acrdg to the article, Maxen ma his cisn to do so last year and reached out for advice om Carl Nassib, who 2021 beme the NFL’s first out gay active player as a member of the Las Vegas was Nassib who put Maxen ntact wh Outsports. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self, ” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.

GAY MEN’S MDFULNS AND SELF CARE

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said.

NE ATTUS FOR MDFULNS PRACTICE GAY MEN CAN IMPLEMENT TODAY

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay, ” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

THE MEDIATG ROLE OF BODY ACCEPTANCE EXPLAG THE RELATN OF MDFULNS, SELF-COMPASSN AND MDFUL EATG TO BODY IMAGE GAY MEN AND BISEXUAL MEN

Kev Maxen, an assistant ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, ma sports history after publicly g out as gay.

Maxen’s disclosure is a historic one, makg him the first openly gay ach of a U. Maxen’s announcement two years after NFL star Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player. “I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the former Las Vegas Rairs player, 30, revealed a June 2021 Instagram vio.

Wele to the gay and bi men’s group.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

This n be pecially te for gay men. Growg up, many of felt we weren’t good enough bee we were gay.

As adults, many gay men ntue to try and make up for a feelg of beg “ls than” by always strivg for perfectn.

So how n you start to replace the societal attus as a gay man? Exploratn of mdfulns and related ncepts have not been vtigated extensively gay and bisexual men, a populatn where eatg and body related ncerns have been found to be wispread.

RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS

ConclnsFdgs highlight the importance of body acceptance when nsirg the velopment of a mdfulns or passn-based terventn to attenuate body related issu among gay and bisexual men. Exploratn of mdfulns and related ncepts have not been vtigated extensively gay and bisexual men although evince shows that this is a populatn who are also at higher risk of velopg eatg and body image related issu (e.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

The velopment of terventns which nsir the specific experienc of different populatns creas the efficy of such terventns, hence the need for creased knowledge of experienc of body issu gay and bisexual Wtern culture, prentatn of “th” or “slim” female body typ have ntributed to poor body image perceptn among younger female populatns (Bombak et al., 2019). Rearch that explor body image men do not often pict the sexualy of participants and therefore do not nsir the specific experienc of gay and bisexual men (Fsner & Smh, 2015).

MDFULNS FOR GAY MEN: HOW TO GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD AND BE MORE ENGAGED IN LIFE

This omissn is important, as recent lerature has highlighted gay and bisexual men as experiencg a higher prevalence of eatg and body related issu when pared wh heterosexual men (Blashill, 2010).

(2017) suggt that the prsure upon gay men to nform to the high standards of bodily appearance the gay muny uld rult disorred eatg and body dissatisfactn. Yelland and Tiggemann (2003) pared measur asssg disorred eatg and sire for mculary gay men, g heterosexual men and women as ntrol groups.

THE WELL TRAED MDA 6-WEEK TRODUCTN TO MDFULNS WH GNY GAYIN THIS LIVE, VIRTUAL URSE, YOU’LL GROW SIGHT AND CLARY AS YOU LEARN TO APPLY THE FOUNDATNS OF MDFULNS, CULTIVATG YOUR OWN LM, CENTERED, EMBODIED PRENCE.WHENENROLLMENT OPENS OCTOBER 2, 2023.COURSE DAT: OCT 15–NOV 19, 2023.6 LIVE CLASS, SUNDAY AFTERNOONS OM 12–2PM EST.WHERELIVE, VIA ZOOMJO THE WALISTWE CAN CHOOSE PRENCE SO WE DON’T MISS THE MOMENTS OF OUR LIV.WE CAN CHOOSE KDNS AND TO ACT WISELY SO THAT WE - AND THOSE AROUND - SUFFER LS.WE CAN CULTIVATE AN UNWAVERG GROUND OF WELL-BEG THAT IS OUR FOUNDATN AND OUR HOME - NO MATTER THE STORMS THAT LIFE BRGS.WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT?MDFULNS AND MEDATN ENABLE TO BRG THE POWER OF AWARENS TO OUR THOUGHTS, FEELGS, AND ACTNS. YOU N CHOOSE HOW YOU RPOND TO OUR NER AND OUTER LIFE. I'LL SHOW YOU HOW.WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT?WHAT YOU'LL LEARN"MDFULNS BRGS AWARENS TO WHAT YOU ARE DOG, AND WH THAT CLARY THE POSSIBILY OF CHOICE. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE ALL HAVE THE NATE ABILY TO BE AWARE. IT IS THE NATURE OF OUR MD. HOWEVER MOST PEOPLE’S MDS ARE UNTRAED, SO THE WAY MANY OF E OUR ATTENTN IS LS THAN OPTIMAL. WH MDFULNS MEDATN, YOU N LEARN TO TERCEPT UNHELPFUL, UNWANTED HABS AND CULTIVATE POSIVE ON. AS YOU LEARN TO DO THAT THE LABORATORY OF MEDATN, YOU N TRANSLATE THAT SKILL TO THE RT OF YOUR LIFE."MARK COLEMANGNY GAY, CERTIFIED MDFULNS TEACHER

Gay men sred higher the disorred eatg and sire for mculary measur than both the ntrol groups (Yelland & Tiggemann, 2003). This suggts that the aspiratnal male gay body type is both lean and mcular.

SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS

A perceived failure to achieve such body ials may also negatively affect wellbeg gay men (Brewster et al., 2017; Regan et al., 2021; Yelland & Tiggemann, 2003).

AN AFFIRMATIVE MDFULNS APPROACH FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH

(2021) highlighted the appearance-based judgement experienced by gay men who vised “gay spac”, and how this related to a lack of body acceptance wh gay men.

Exploratn of the ncepts wh gay and bisexual men would highlight elements that may be important when nsirg a mdful or passn-based terventn to attenuate body and eatg related issu gay and bisexual men. The aim of this study is to explore body image and the potential relatnships to mdfulns, self-passn, and mdful eatg gay and bisexual men to rm future mdful and/or passn-based terventn to attenuate body related issu.