Finding Hope through Food Episode 2

In this podcast episode, the host, Jenny Jackson, explores how food can help rebuild ourselves and our communities. She interviews Mark, a former D1 soccer player who experienced a career-ending injury. Mark shares his struggles with his identity and how food played a role in his life before and after the injury. He discusses how he used food to rehabilitate himself and navigate his changing life and future. Food, it's what brings us together, lifts up communities, and gives us solid ground. But what happens when food becomes the enemy, shifts your identity upside down? How can we use food to build us back up? On this podcast, we explore rebuilding ourselves, our communities, and our personalities through food. I'm your host, Jenny Jackson, and this is Finding Hope Through Food. In this second episode, we're going to talk to Mark, a former D1 soccer player at the University of Notre Dame. Mark was always a superstar, both on and off the field. But after a devastating career-ending injury, Mark was left with confusing thoughts about himself, his abilities, and his personality. Through his recovery journey, Mark talks about the role food played in his life before and after the injury, and what it was like to rehabilitate himself using food. He tells us how he navigated his changing life and his future through the power of food.