Having had a half dozen or so surgeries and injuries in my adult life, it is easy for me to focus on recovery simply as a physical thing. Shoulder surgery requiring physical therapy, tonsillectomy requiring quiet time for the painful healing process and not to mention giving birth which is a recovery all its own!!
However, as time has passed, I have learned that recovery is so much more than the process of getting over a physical injury. It is about mental and spiritual health too. In fact, as trying as it seems at the time, recovering physically is a breeze in comparison.
I, like so many, am recovering from so many things. A sense of no purpose, a complicated family dynamic, infertility struggles, eating disorder (yes, over-eating is an eating disorder), medical struggles, spiritual emptiness...so many things that make up who I am and so many things that light my path. Each aspect of life offers an opportunity to grow and learn through recovery.
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