I thought it may be interesting (or not) to share I'm also recovered. I have no problem with also saying I'm a recovered alcoholic drug addict, and I have alcoholism as an illness. My illness is kept alseep, inert, unempowered, and I have sobriety. My spiritul understandings and experiences with my sobriety are not supernatural, and are entirely within myself. No outside deity keeps me sober.
I just saying, being recovered does not always equate to a requirement to NOT be an alcoholic. Yes, I'm a non-drinker too, and I'm still yet though, and happily so, a recovered alcoholic drug addict, no less.
Cheers!