Since AA’s founding in 1935, countless recovery programs have helped people find sobriety. But few have offered a truly new way forward. Starting Over reframes recovery itself, moving beyond avoiding relapse to discovering purpose and meaning in a new life.

Starting Over is a recovery curriculum developed for use in correctional, residential, and sober living settings. It serves as one of many tools on the recovery journey and is designed to complement and enhance other programs.

It began as a 12-step recovery meeting called Hunger 4 Healing, which ran from 1998 to 2013 at Main Street Mission, a storefront church in downtown Manchester, NH.

Across 11 facilitator-led group sessions, participants explore identity, values, and transformation through a spiritual lens rooted in the Beatitudes. The curriculum invites people to reconnect with their inner worth, their community, and their capacity for change.

For nearly a century, recovery has often been defined as not using. Starting Over shifts the focus and makes sobriety a tool, not the goal—opening the door to purpose, passion, and a new life worth living.