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