BEAUTY OF RECOVERY

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?Recovery takes on various shapes, sizes, emotions and feelings. Everyone has a different picture of how it might appear. But what I know to be true is that recovery …

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Looks more beautiful than your perfectly posed pictures

With your six pack abs and trendy clothes.

Is more impressive than your self-control

And your clean and regimented diet.

Is more admirable than your accolades

And straight A’s in school.

And looks more attractive than a number on a scale

or your efforts to be thin.

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Recovery looks like hard work.

It looks like teardrops on a cold lonely night

And a head full of confusion and questioning thoughts.

It’s an equal mix of brokenness and hope

With a lot of mistakes and courage along the way.

It looks like a mess —composed of vulnerability, breakdowns and belief.

And I have never seen a more magnificent sight.

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There is an unmistakable beauty that radiates from those who choose to rise and rebuild. ~Britt?

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