Recovery is not just about breaking habits and stepping out of old patterns.
Recovery is not an end point.
Recovery is not a final, finite goal.
Recovery is not one single act, or utterance, or intake of breath.
Recovery is not one single choice, but a thousand choices you must make again, and again, and again.
Recovery is not a static thing, a moment in time, or a place you arrive at when, all of a sudden, you have your whole life figured out.
Recovery takes work.
Recovery is the hardest thing you will ever do.
But if you want to live (and I mean really live), it is the only thing on earth worth doing.
Recovery is a process; a continued, continual act of becoming.
Recovery is always active rather than passive (and yes, rest is active).
Recovery is a verb.
Recovery is a case of dismantling things, piece by piece, rising up and out of the dirt, rebuilding yourself from the ground up.
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