S2 EP 14 - Food for Mood: Hungry like a Wolf
1/6/202620 min
It’s a new year, so let’s talk about food and feelings—because they’re way more connected than we realize. In this episode, we break down how what you eat can either calm you down or completely throw you off, without diet rules or restriction.
This episode dives into the four core emotions—joy, sadness, anger, and fear—and how each one shows up in your body. From why joy just wants to be savored, to why sadness loves soup, why anger needs cooling foods, and why fear sometimes just needs you to eat somethin...
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First 90 secondsSuzanne M. Swain· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Well, hey, y'all. It's 2026. Happy New Year. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and got to see all your family, friends, and furry folk that you've been wanting to see and, and had just an awesome, awesome time, and that you ended the year strong, and so far, the new year is treating you really well. I have to say that I've been very happy this holiday season. I've been recovering from my knee surgery, and it turns out I'm gonna have to have another one next Tuesday on the 6th because this one didn't take. It turns out I have some bone loss and deficiencies from vitamins over the years from some surgery I had years ago, and that's fixable, totally fixable. But unfortunately, my leg is sort of collapsing underneath the new implant, so they're gonna take it all out and do it all over again a different way, and w- then hopefully I'll be trucking around like nobody's business and such. So they're gonna put some rods in the lower part of the leg and the upper part of the leg. I love it because it's all science. I just think it's amazing, and I watch way too much Grey's Anatomy, so I'm just like, "Oh, gosh, can I watch? Can I have a video?" You know? I, I think he thinks I'm really weird, but that's all right. I don't know. Anyway, but because of this nutrition thing, I've been really thinking about food, and of course, the holidays, there's lots of food around and yummy treats and all kinds of comfort things that you have that make you feel good. In the holiday season, the lights and the smells and the sounds, all of these things are indicative of