As usual, it depends on what you mean, doesn't it? I'm a recovered alcoholic. What I mean by that is that I no longer display the symptoms of alcoholism as I understand it. That in no way means that I can stop living my life by a certain set of spiritual principles, or that my growth as a person is static.
On the other hand, it also depends on what you mean by recovering. If someone had promised me a life of being 'in recovery', staying away from certain situations, avoiding certain places and people, watching out for my triggers, going to meetings when I felt sketchy, etc., I don't think I would have wanted it. Instead, they promised that I could be recovered, and they gave me a solution for how to get there. Life beyond my dreams.
Just like a knife wound that has healed, I no longer bleed from it, the scab is long gone, and it doesn't hurt any more. That doesn't make me impervious to other sharp objects out there.