Food Addiction – Renew. Refresh. Recover.

September 2025 Edition

“Turning the Page: Recovery as Renewal.”

A Note From Your Editor

September is often a season of fresh beginnings. Kids go back to school, routines shift, and the air itself feels like a turning page. Recovery is much the same. Each day offers us a chance to reset, to recommit, and to embrace the life we are building one choice at a time.

This month, our theme is “Turning the Page: Recovery as Renewal.”
Like the Big Book reminds us, we have a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.
Renewal is not about erasing the past, but about embracing the present as a gift.

Recovery Radar – Renewal

Renewal is not about waiting for January or a big milestone. Renewal can happen in this moment. Every breath, every pause, every choice to reach for connection instead of compulsion is a form of renewal.

The Body Keeps the Score reminds us that healing is possible when we feel safe.
Recovery provides that safety through community, the Steps, and spiritual connection.

Healing Highlights Through The 12 Steps

Step Three is a powerful tool for renewal:
“Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.”

Turning the page often means surrendering yesterday and starting fresh today.
Steps Ten and Eleven also keep us in daily renewal: by taking inventory and practicing conscious contact, we begin again with clarity and peace.

Affirmation:
“I face each day as page turner knowing that renewal is always available to me.”

Affirmations are personal, positive, present and potentially true. Do you know about the 40-40-40? Write an affirmation 40 times, record the 40 sentences and listen to it.  By doing this we can change our brain messages since our brains are neuroplastic.

 

Member Spotlight: Monthly Mirror Reflection

Back to Basics

This summer was rough. I struggled with consistency. Meetings slipped. I isolated more than I wanted to admit. My food was okay, but my spiritual condition? Not so much. I kept telling myself I’d get back on track “soon.” But weeks passed, and nothing changed until I realized that “soon” had to become now, or I’d drift even further.

So I made a choice: to go back to the basics.

I started attending daily meetings again, even if I didn’t feel like it. I opened my Step One worksheets and sat with the truth of my powerlessness. I reached out to my sponsor and admitted how far I’d drifted not just from the program, but from myself.

And something shifted.

It wasn’t dramatic. There was no breakthrough or fanfare. But the simple act of returning brought with it a quiet kind of strength. A remembering.

This time, it didn’t feel like starting over. It felt like continuing.
Not from scratch but from the exact place I had paused.

I’m not chasing perfection anymore. I’m chasing honesty. And this September, I’m holding space for grace, for structure, and for the steady, faithful work of showing up again.

Because sometimes the bravest thing we can do in recovery is not rise from the ashes…
but return to the roots.

Back to the basics. Back to the truth.
Back to the path that’s been waiting for us all along.

In fellowship,
Anonymous – a fellow food addict

 

Freedom in Action: Recipes, Routines & Real-Life Tools

Butternut Squash Apple Breakfast Bake

• 1 Cup Cooked Butternut Squash
• 2 Large Eggs
• 6 oz Chopped Raw Apple
• 6 oz Greek Plain Nonfat Yogurt

Get a pie pan and use olive oil to spray the pan lightly. Mix all ingredients together and bake at 350 for approximately 45 minutes (bake until it’s firm).

Routines are a gift of renewal. Consider creating a September ritual:

• Write a nightly gratitude list template here: Gratitude Journal.docx
• Schedule a weekly check-in with your sponsor
• Set aside time for meditation or spiritual reading

Renewal is not in big leaps, but in small practices that steady us through change.

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