We at Surrender School invite you to join our supportive community, where we help each other recover from our unhealthy relationships with food. We offer different approaches to working the 12 steps along with Zoom workshops and resources to broaden and strengthen recovery. You will find many ways to connect with us that nurture your healing in a safe, compassionate environment. Wherever you are in your recovery journey, we welcome you. You belong.

We seek to accomplish our mission by offering:

• A Food First page for those who would like help defining their own abstinence.
• Live step studies. Enroll via our Home page.
• Work the Steps on your own or with a sponsor by choosing from the suggestions listed for each step.
• Visit our past step-study sessions.
• Live recovery-related book clubs. Enroll via our Home page.
• Book studies:
  • The Gifts of Imperfection Book Study (current—enroll),
  • Emotional Sobriety (archived).
• The Science of Step One workshop 
• A Contact Us page where you can ask questions, make suggestions, and/or volunteer to help with our mission.

Like OA’s “Embracing our Differences” document Surrender School believes that, “When we insist that there is only one way to recover, that there is only one piece of literature members should read, that the way we found to work the Steps is the way for everyone, we cease being accepting and inclusive.” Our “fellowship is united by our disease and our common purpose, and that individual differences in approach(es) to recovery need not divide us.” Surrender School will continue to update our website to be as inclusive as possible so that everyone can find their own path to recovery.

We at Surrender School also believe:

• Connection is the antidote to addiction.
• We all learn from each other. Whether we are a newcomer, many years recovered, in relapse—wherever we are on the recovery journey—we meet ourselves and each other with kindness. We all belong.
• There is no one right way to work a program.
• You must find what works for you.
• Every mistake—food mistake or otherwise—teaches us.
• Self-recrimination is never a path for growth. It does no good at all to beat ourselves up.
• Shame does not work.