Recovery is not an event but a journey

"Recovered" or "Recovering"? Recovery is not finite. Recovery, like yoga, is an infinite journey. From a yoga standpoint, we are always growing and learning. There is no endpoint to evolvement. Yoga, like recovery, is circular. 

As an adolescent or young adult goes through treatment, their life experience and maturity may be much different vs when they partner, have children, become empty nesters and then enter their generative years.

In the substance use treatment world, the word “recovery” is most always used as recovered tends to be a word of absolute. In addition, there is “lapse” and “relapse.” If one is recovered from their eating disorder, yet in recovery for their substance use disorder, are they only half-way recovered?

Recovery, in my eyes, is commitment to everything you say and do. In my humble opinion, if your patients are "fully recovered" – but not grounded in their eating disorder recovery – they may be mirroring intoxication. Recovery is not an event, but a journey. I welcome any dialogue.