S2 EP17 — People Bond Over Cortisol | Why We Thought Chaos Was Normal

What if emotional eating isn’t really about food?

What if it’s about stress, survival mode, nervous system overload… and living in a constant state of emotional chaos?

In this episode of Plantspiration® Unplugged, we get REAL about the years we spent bonding over stress, reliving problems, gossip loops, emotional overload, survival mode, and what we now recognize as cortisol addiction.

We talk openly about:

• trauma bonding and co-rumination
• emotional eating and survival mode
• gossip, stress loops, and chaos addiction
• why diets fail when people aren’t regulated
• nervous system healing and emotional regulation
• how whole-food, plant-based living changed more than our weight
• why healing changed our rela ...