Sobriety and Recovery Are Not the Same Thing—Here's the Difference

[00:00:00]Sober and recovery are absolutely not the same thing. Recovery refers to actually the personal transformation that's going on. Whereas sobriety is just the absence of these behaviors.

[00:00:15]So, real recovery is about being able to actually understand where our emotions are coming from and then learning how to navigate them without behaviors that are going to be destructive to our relationship.