Beyond Nutrition: Healing the Emotional Body Through Food

In 2018, the high-stress, fast-paced, "boys club" of the banking world finally broke me. It wasn't a sudden crash; it was a slow, terrifying fade. I was a casualty of a productivity culture that demanded everything and gave nothing back but a hollow, frantic shell of a person. My body was screaming: my period had vanished (hypothalamic amenorrhea), I suffered chronic injuries from being undernourished and over-exercised, and an autoimmune flare turned every meal into an enemy.