Whrn I begun my healing journey. Before therapy, There was a lot of talk about recovery.
RECOVERY seemed to be at that time to be akin to 'Jason and the argounouts' journey to find the Golden fleece.

It seemed as if there was this concrete thing that one would, gain. Like an olympians medal. 🥉

Now? I don't see it as recovery, more as discovery.

The medal? Well that was an outside reward. There never was an outside reward. Its all inside.

A diconstruction of formal constructions.

I don't identify with the term recovery now. I leave, that to 12step groups and the like.

I don't think recovery in mental health terms has ever been understood as a static, end-point state. I have only ever heard it used in terms of a process or changing dynamic.

[unaluna]

Yeah i could see recovery as in reclaiming the winnicott true self. I told my t ten years ago my goal was to be "more me". I think my writing here has changed its sound and become more me. Rather than helen gurley brown. Im afraid i unfortunately imprinted on her cosmopolitan editorials in my formative years.

Discovery, yep. I guess that's why L is so fond of saying that "this work is never done"....