Since a few months ago, the word "recovery" has taken on new meaning for me. At first, I saw it in terms of "getting better" from an illness, or an accident. Like a period after some sort of physical trauma where the body heals and you eventually get back to your daily routine.
But the type of recovery that I'm experiencing now is a different sort of thing: emotional/spiritual weights that I had tied to my feet since childhood are coming off, blinders that had been attached to my head for so long have been removed, and the mirror that I avoided for so long now shows me someone who doesn't need to fix others in order to feel loved.
I've started calling this process "liberation" rather than "recovery." It IS a process, I know, and I have a long road ahead of me, but it's so much more hopeful now, and I have so much less fear than when I started walking it.