Finding Hope through Food Episode 3

This podcast explores how food can impact our lives, both positively and negatively. The host, Jenny Jackson, discusses the story of Ashley, a high-achieving student at the University of Notre Dame. Ashley's relationship with food took a negative turn when she fell into self-doubt, isolation, and fear. She used food as a coping mechanism, which caused her to tear herself down. However, Ashley eventually learned to make peace with food in order to rebuild herself and find inner peace. 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. On this third and final episode, we're talking to Ashley. Ashley is now a senior at the University of Notre Dame, and always was a high achiever both in class and in extracurriculars. She was always applauded for her discipline, sincerity, work ethic, and ingenuity. She never thought that deeply about food until she got to Notre Dame, where she fell into self-doubt, isolation, and fear. Using food as a coping mechanism for the overwhelming negative emotions, she used food to tear herself down. In this episode, Ashley talks to us about how food tore her down, but how she had to remake peace with it in order to remake peace with herself.