Recovery and Journeys

Something that I have learned over the past few weeks...

Recovery and our life journeys aren't linear. They cannot be put neatly into seperate boxes to keep things organized and the way we want them. Our life journey is messy, with twists and turns, hills and holes. We cannot, no matter how hard we try ALWAYS keep things in their own compartments.
I think that recovery is the same way. Whether we are recovering from an addiction or a health issue, it is not effective to keep everything seperate. In fact I do not think we even can. We may think we can but who we are is so ingrained and intertwined within us it is not really possible to keep every part of us seperate. It just does not work.
Humans by nature are holistic. If we are suffering with an illness our entire beings are effected. I know when I am physically sick, my emotional health is also effected. And when I am anxious I have even made myself physically ill. If I do not eat how my body needs me to or if I do not sleep enough/too much my body lets me know.
So anyways, enough of this ramble for today. Just remember life is about the journey, not the final destination, and that our journeys do not have to go a certain way to be considered in recovery. Recovery is personal. No one but you can define what it means to you.