Originally Posted by
LifeRecovery 
I just want to add on a slightly different topic.
Rest and giving myself time for rejuvenation were part of what I needed to learn on this journey and continue to be part of my active recovery. I had to "work" to learn these crucial skills for a very long time.
For a long time some of the stuff that helped me and I thought should come easy to me was actually work to learn how to do.
I had this idea in early recovery that I had to be pushing all the time and efforting at my recovery and I never gave myself time for rest and resulting integration.
I was not clear in my initial post but I think taking time and stepping back a little is recovery. I just had a hard time defining it as such for a long time.