• Recovery is feeling better.
• Recovery means claiming your circumstances instead of your circumstances claiming your happiness.
• Recovery is finding new meaning for living without the fear of future abandonment. Recovery is being able to enjoy fond memories without having them precipitate painful feelings of loss, guilt, regret, or remorse.
• Recovery is acknowledging that it is perfectly all right to feel bad from time to time and to talk about those feelings no matter how those around you react.
• Recovery is being able to forgive others when they say or do things that you know are based on their lack of knowledge about grief.
• Recovery is one day realizing that your ability to talk about the loss you have experienced is in fact helping another person get through his or her loss.

This concept of recovery is basic to the Divorce Recovery concept of the transition journey in which individuals transcend losses and make their way through the Endings, Neutral Zone, and New Beginnings.