The inside affects the outside. That is why you must deal with the soul first. That is where recovery begins. When God created man and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, he became a living soul with an eternal spirit and a physical body. God dwells in the spirit.
Self dwells in the soul.
The senses dwell in the body. Soulish territory - Positive emotions were replaced by negative. Physical territory - The Garden of Eden, health, eternal life. Recovery must begin in the same realm. The spirit is miraculously transformed at the point of new birth so there is no need for recovery.