What Is Recovery?
Recovery is an intensely personal experience that is hard to define in a general way. There are multiple pathways to recovery including: treatment, spirituality, natural, criminal justice interventions, support from individuals, and/or family, mutual assistance groups, and recovery community centers. Everyone's journey results in their own unique recovery experience. Therefore, recovery has many definitions and it is hard to agree on one single method. It goes beyond abstinence alone to include hope, resilience, health, wellness, family, friends, and community. Recovery starts when a person begins to make better choices about his or her overall wellness.

Recovery to me means my continued daily self-awareness, reflection, and connection with others.
Recovery is learning to live in this moment as it is.
To me recovery means accepting and letting go of my past, to heal and grow.
Letting go of the past and moving forward with positive change.
Refrain from all substances, changing one’s life.
Improving life in every aspect.
Learning to improve life without use of drugs.
Using positive measures to make positive changes. Any positive change.
Earning back what I have given away.
Everything.
Focusing on a healthy mindset to adapt to life and its cycles.
Recovery is acceptance, changing your thinking, behaviors, and actions that you put into your life.
Better life.
Another Chance at life.
Mind Free.
Freedom.
Another Chance at life.