Uncovery vs. Recovery

Sometimes I eat my own words for breakfast. Realizing when I think I know something, I can always uncover some more truth. I’ve had this “thing” with the word RECOVERY for years. I’ve walked around trying to get others to hear me out and I felt quite successful in my attempts at changing the viewpoint of many. My dialogue went something like this: “I’m not about re-covering my pain and traumas I’m about un-covering them. There’s a lot of power in the process of un-covering. Why would I want to re-cover or put the covers over pain and trauma?” I sang this song like I wrote the lyrics and it was an opportunity for discussion every time recovery would come up. I’ll never forget the day I successfully got 6 men in recovery to agree with me. I had shown up with cupcakes for someone’s birthday and they called them “recovery cakes” There’s the word again, I thought …here’s my chance, my opportunity to plead my case yet again. And, a half hour later after a cool discussion they all agreed with me. I became known as the uncovery girl. And, we never called them cupcakes or recovery cakes again. They became uncovery cakes and I was the uncovery girl. I was so proud.

But, I chew on my words today realizing most of the things under the covers can’t be uncovered all at once and sometimes you just need to cover some back up for awhile.

As long as we continue to confront what we can, as long as we continue to look under the covers, uncovering piece by piece undoubtedly life will get easier.

Love for your journey! xox