{"id":668,"date":"2025-12-18T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/?p=668"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:56:28","slug":"man-down-making-space-for-conversations-about-mens-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"Man Down: making space for conversations about men\u2019s mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I joined Dom Hodges, who teaches Sport at UCS, for the first episode of Man Down, a podcast series creating space for honest conversations about men\u2019s mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This feels like an important project to me. Cultural expectations about masculinity can make it difficult for men to speak openly about distress, show vulnerability or ask for support. Creating room for those conversations can help challenge the pressure to stay silent and simply \u201cman up\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Man Down offers a different message: when someone is struggling, we can listen, make space and stand alongside them. I was pleased to contribute to a project encouraging that openness and connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Man Down | Podcast Discussing Men&amp;apos;s Mental Health\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nst96zu2XQc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I join Dom Hodges for the first episode of Man Down, a podcast series making space for honest conversations about men\u2019s mental health, masculinity and vulnerability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}