Nourish: Food, mood and recovery

This workbook is for you if food has slipped down the list while alcohol was taking up so much room. Maybe you skipped meals and drank your dinner. Maybe you lived on takeaway, toast and coffee. Maybe you’ve stopped drinking and now you can’t stop eating sugar, and you’re wondering if that’s a problem too.

This is a self-guided workbook. It isn’t about dieting, perfection or judgement. Nobody is going to weigh you or hand you a list of foods you’re not allowed to eat. It’s about giving you clear information, and showing you that small, steady changes to how you eat and drink can support your healing and make recovery feel a little easier.

Nutrition won’t cure addiction, and it won’t do the work for you. But it can help steady your energy and mood, support your brain and body as they recover, and take some of the edge off cravings. You can use Nourish on its own, or alongside the other Freedom Room workbooks, in whatever order suits you.

What’s inside

There are nine modules. Each one has some information, practical tools to try, questions to write in, and one small action to take:

• Where I’m at with food
• What alcohol takes from the body
• Stress, cortisol and cravings
• What good nutrition looks like
• Supplements
• Sugar, caffeine and cross addiction
• Food and your brain: ADHD and autism
• Routines and habit stacking
• Hidden alcohol

You can go in order, or go straight to what you need. If sugar cravings are the thing keeping you up at night, start with that module. Change one thing at a time. This workbook gives general information, not personal medical advice. If you have a health condition, take medication, are pregnant, or have been drinking heavily, please check with your GP or pharmacist before making big changes, and especially before starting supplements.

How you get it

After you order, you’ll receive an instant PDF download. It’s yours to keep, so you can save it, print it, and work through it at home at your own pace.

If you’d like to talk anything through, you can call The Freedom Room on (07) 3325 1531.