The Hungry Mother: Recipes for Recovery and Life in the Kitchen

A revolutionary culinary approach to long-term recovery

 

"I came back into the rooms pushing a wheelbarrow of shame. My children watched me hit bottom and everything in between. They witnessed every nook and cranny of my addiction."

 

The Hungry Mother, Recipes for Recovery and Life in the Kitchen, is part memoir, part recovery advice, and part recipe book, all rolled into one mother's unforgettable journey to sobriety. Jane Fox is unsparingly honest about her years of addiction, her humiliation and shame, and how her love for her children and the rituals of cooking for them, saved her. The author offers a singular message for other mothers in recovery-hope.



The book is a roadmap for sober moms who are seeking ways to sustain long term recovery by helping them discover the significant connection between cooking and recovery. In the twelve chapters, the 12-steps are illustrated with the author's very personal stories and experiences. Along the way she provides culinary activities for sober moms to enrich relationships with their children and themselves, complete with parenting tips, quotes, and recipes.  The book also provides valuable insights for family and friends who are dealing with an addict, and a deeper understanding of the difficult road to sobriety and recovery.

As a recovery peer advocate, Jane Fox knows that "Hungry Mothers" have a true advantage, courage, and the capacity for long term recovery to become the woman, mother, and grandmother, they had hoped to be.