Jane Fox - The Hungry Mother
Jane's Story
When Jane Fox left the wealthy enclave she grew up in on Long Island and headed for college in the ’70s, she fell into the counterculture’s easy access to drugs, leading to addiction. In and out of recovery programs, finally getting sober at AREBA Casriel Institute in New York City in 1976. She never lost touch with the recovery community and had many active roles in the industry, including that of TV spokesperson, appearing on the Oprah, Donohue, and Regis shows.
Yet no one is immune. After fifteen years sober, and now a divorced mom with two young children, she relapsed. It was the climb back and hosting See Jane Cook (CNBC) that inspired the writing of The Hungry Mother. The art of eating and cooking was always a central theme in Jane’s life and she sustained sobriety by incorporating culinary activities into a simple yet revolutionary approach to long-term recovery. That was over twenty-five years ago, and since then, Jane has been on a mission to “pass it on” to other mothers in recovery.
Jane brings the depth of experience from living on both sides of the sobriety fence. Her newly released book, The Hungry Mother , shines the light on a recovery-based lifestyle for sober women and the joy of fulfillment.
You’ve worked hard to stay sober, now enjoy it!
Reality, Honesty, Hope...Jane's Got It
Enjoy this podcast with Jane Fox, as she talks about her latest book, “The Hungry Mother: Recipes for Recovery and Life in the Kitchen”.
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Sea Cliff resident Jane Fox is leading the charge to help people struggling with addiction and reduce the stigma around it with her new book, “The Hungry Mother: Recipes for Recovery and Life in the Kitchen.”
The book, released on Oct. 26, takes a culinary approach to long-term recovery. Fox uses personal anecdotes, medical addiction and recovery advice and recipes to encourage women to use cooking as a medium to focus on their children and what’s important along the road to sobriety.
Fox highlighted how cooking for her children helped save her life and convinced her to beat her addiction. She wants to encourage other mothers to do the same.
“When women are substance abusers or alcoholics, you lose not only that woman, but you lose that generation of her children,” Fox said. “And I feel very strongly that when women get in touch with their maternal instincts, they can really push through and stay sober.”
Fox battled with substance use disorder throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Addiction was very poorly understood at the time, and often blamed on moral failure as opposed to chemical dependence.
“I had been in and out of psychiatric hospitals back in the day, before there were rehabs or programs,” Fox explained. “You were considered mentally ill, and you would be put in a psychiatric facility. I went through like four or five of them.”
