Category: 12-step living
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Sandwiches Are On The Menu
One of my favorite recovery meals is what I call an abstinent sandwich wrap. It has everything I loved about sandwiches before recovery: layers of flavor, the satisfying bite, the portability, but it’s built on ingredients that support my abstinence instead of triggering cravings, stoking food noise, or reviving that old food obsession.
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Summer BBQs In Food Addiction Recovery
Memorial day can mark the beginning of the filled with food-centered events, which is why its such an important time to strengthen recovery routines instead of drifting away from them. Going into summer with intention, structure, and support can make all the difference. Recovery does not have to disappear just because the season changes.
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Abstinent Fast Food
Think of your kitchen as your recovery support hub. When it’s stocked intentionally, you remove decision fatigue and create safety in moments of vulnerability.
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Girl Breakfast – Abstinent Edition
What Does Girl Breakfast Actually Look Like? It’s simple, but it’s intentional. Think “assembled”, not “prepared”… Because, some days, you just don’t feel like cooking… but you still want to stay strong in recovery and maintain abstinence. This breakfast is the ticket!
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Step Three in Food Addiction Recovery
Step Three is the step where recovery stops being about managing food perfectly and starts being about living spiritually.
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Mercury Retrograde and Food Addiction Recovery
Mercury Retrograde gets a bad rap. However, in life, and especially in recovery, it can actually be a powerful little portal if we know how to work with it instead of fighting against it.
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Step Two in Food Addiction Recovery
Step Two reads: “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” Notice it doesn’t say did believe. It says came to believe. This is a process step, not at all a finish line. It’s about movement. A shift. A soft opening.
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Meet The Mugs That Hold More Than Coffee
Our very first collection of recovery mugs JUST dropped in our new online store. And, not just “cute mugs”, but mugs created specifically and intentionally created for people walking a 12-step path, living abstinently or sober, and trying to stay spiritually connected one day at a time.
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Groundhog Day And Food Addiction Recovery
Groundhog Day. Same ritual each year. Same question every time. Same hope that this time will be different. And honestly? If you have ever lived with food addiction, that whole scenario probably feels very familiar.
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Old Thoughts, New Freedom
Recovery is not about becoming someone who never things about food. It’s about becoming someone who doesn’t lose themselves to those thoughts anymore. So the next time a familiar whisper shows up, like “I should get a snack”, smile a little. That’s just your past knocking on a door you don’t live behind anymore.
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Intentional Recovery: Choose Yourself Every Day
Recovery is not about perfection or taking control. Recovery is about being intentional: choosing day by day, to show up for yourself. Small, consistent actions create lasting freedom. If you feel overwhelmed, start simple: plan one meal, take one honest step, and remember you don’t have to do recovery perfectly. Just do recovery intentionally.
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90 Meetings In 90 Days
90 meetings in 90 days is not about being a “good” recovery person. It is not about doing recovery perfectly. And it is definitely not about proving how serious you are. Attending 90 meetings in 90 days is about giving your nervous system, your mind, and your heart a chance to settle into something new…
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Understanding Step 1: Powerlessness Over Food
Here’s the beautiful paradox of Step 1: the moment we admit we are powerless over food, is the moment we start getting our life back. When we stop trying to dominate food, food slowly loses its power over us. Mental peace becomes possible. Eating becomes simpler. Life expands beyond obsession and self-criticism.
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Weight-Loss In Food Addiction Recovery: Releasing Instead of Losing
If you have ever been trapped in that “classic” diet cycle, you know the obsession well – calories, scales, goal weights, “before” and “after” photos. The pursuit of control becomes it’s own kind of addiction. In food addiction recovery, the goal shifts. It’s not about losing weight anymore. It’s about quieting the food noise. And…
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Year-End Reflection: Cultivating Recovery in 2026
As 2025 comes to a close, its the perfect moment to pause and look back on the past year. For those of us in food addiction recovery, Step 10 of 12-step recovery offers a gentle yet powerful way to reflect, take inventory, and set ourselves up for growth in the year ahead.
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How To Handle Holiday Parties Without Losing Your Abstinence
Holiday parties can feel like an alternate dimension when you’re a food addict in recovery. The music is loud. The dessert table looks like it’s being spotlighted from heaven. Someone is always trying to hand you a plate of something “you just have to try.” The smells alone can feel like an ambush. It’s a…