# "Eat Your Feelings:" How YouTube cooking show opens the door to veterans' hard conversations

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Podcast: [Tango Alpha Lima Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/tango-alpha-lima-podcast-28912)
Published: 2026-06-30T10:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tangoalphalima/episodes/Eat-Your-Feelings-How-YouTube-cooking-show-opens-the-door-to-veterans-hard-conversations-e3lf23e
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## Resource

Army veteran Cory Brown watched 17 people from his cavalry troop die by suicide after returning from Iraq. The loss of his closest battle buddy became a turning point. His response was "Eat Your Feelings," a YouTube cooking and storytelling show that uses food to lower the walls around grief, identity, and veteran mental health — without ever calling it therapy. Cory joins co-host Sam Nathews, a civilian and friend who brings his own experience with loss to every episode. Together they join Tango Alpha Lima hosts Adam Marr and Joe Worley to talk about why connection beats intervention, what it really takes to get veterans to open up, and how a shared meal can do what a counselor's office sometimes can't. Also in this episode: the landmark executive order accelerating psychedelic therapy research for veterans, and new science on blast injuries and cumulative TBI that is changing how the military thinks about invisible wounds. National Commander praises executive order that expedites psychedelic treatments for mental health Learn more about Executive Order 14401

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