Recovery is no longer living a life based in fear or shame. Your identity is no longer based in reaction, but action. From learning these new ways, a person often learns how to set healthy boundaries and limits, to get needs met, to play, relax, and develop flexibility. Recovery is the process of learning to trust yourself and then trusting others, and with trust comes the opportunity for intimacy. A person is truly on a recovery course when new belief systems and new behaviors are actualized in relationships at work, with friends and family, in the most intimate love and sexual relationships, and in taking care of oneself physically and emotionally.
People reach their turning points in different ways.
Whatever brings you to your new beginning, you will need to attend to or take care of some major, core issues from your past, so that these are no longer able to dictate how you live your life today.