meet megan
I'm Megan, a lived experience practitioner, facilitator and advocate dedicated to helping people find real freedom from disordered eating. My work is driven by a deep desire to change the way we talk about bodies, food, and self-worth, particularly for women and the queer community.
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After my own experience with anorexia, I began questioning the messages I had absorbed about my body and my worth. I came to understand that healing our relationship with food isn't just personal, it's cultural, social, and political. I approach this work through the lenses of sociology of the body, weight inclusivity, and cultural insight drawn from years of living and working internationally, teaching English across many countries and learning how the stories a culture tells shape the way its people eat, speak, and see themselves.
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I hold a BA in Psychology and Sociology and an MA in Business and Finance Management. For over five years I wrote for The Shona Project as a youth ambassador, sharing my perspective with young women across Ireland. My story has been featured in the Irish Times, on Ireland AM, and on radio.
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I'm not a therapist or a doctor. I'm a queer woman who has lived through body hatred and come out the other side. I know what it's like to feel trapped inside the one thing you can never leave: your own body. To feel disgusted by it. How isolating that is. How exhausting. How sad.
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My mission is to offer a different narrative. One rooted in compassion, culture, and power, where worth is no longer measured in calories or kilograms, and where the body is understood not as a problem to be fixed, but as a home to be returned to.
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Women are powerful. Hunger strips us of that power, not just physical hunger, but hunger for belonging, identity, and meaning. I believe we must eat. Not just for survival, but for strength, joy, and reclamation.
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I'd love to be part of that journey with you.
My Story
For years, my relationship with food and my body felt like a quiet battle. It was something I carried with me through school, through recovery, through becoming an adult. I spent a long time trying to understand why something as natural as eating could become so tangled in fear, control, and shame.
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Through recovery, I began to see that the issue wasn’t simply about food at all. It was about meaning, belonging, and voice. It was about control. And identity. I started to notice how much of our culture teaches women and girls to shrink, to apologise, to mistrust their own bodies. I realised how deeply the stories we inherit- stories about beauty, discipline, worth- shape the way we eat and the way we live.
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That realisation was immensely eye-opening for me. It became the thread that connected my studies in psychology and sociology, my fascination with culture, social history, mythology, spirituality, and my personal healing. Over time, I became less interested in “fixing” myself and more interested in understanding what the struggle was trying to tell me, what deeper hunger lay beneath it. I wasn't the problem. My problem was part of a bigger, systemic problem.
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Now, my work is about helping others explore those same questions. I use story, reflection, and practical guidance to support people in reconnecting with their bodies and their intuition. My aim is not to offer quick solutions, but to create spaces where people can listen to themselves again, where food becomes nourishment, and the body becomes home.
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Living with an eating disorder is extremely lonely. You feel like no one understands you. When I was in treatment as a teenager, I wanted to speak with someone who had been in my position and was now recovered. There was no such person to guide me. To offer some hope. I told myself if I ever recover, I will become that person. And now I am fulfilling that promise to my younger self.
Media & talks
Megan has spoken on Ireland AM, on various radio appearances and at the conference 'Our Complicated Relationship with Food and Body' in MTU, Cork. Her insights have also been featured in The Irish Times and through collaborations with The Shona Project. She is a volunteer with Bodywhys Support Services and with Foróige's mentor programme.