The Five Stages of Early Recovery

The pink cloud is great...until you hit a wall.

Recovery is often thought of as complicated. In many ways, it is: there are many feelings wrapped up in a proverbial ball and a lot of physical and emotional needs may have been unattended for some time. But at the same, it can also follow a typical pattern. While not everyone’s experience is exactly the same, we tend to think of recovery as following five stages: