ABSTRACT
Spirituality is essential for healthy living, and a good solid recovery process comes only after a person has developed a truly spiritual state of being. The metaphor that I am going to use to explain spirituality in recovery is that of a relationship. Essential in all forms of religion or socialization, spirituality is the relationship between oneself and something greater. Whether that relationship is one with a Judeo-Christian God, one with a more individually defined Higher Power, one with Mother Nature, one with a group, or one with your family, the relationship is all-important. In fact, this is more than a metaphor; the relationship is really all that there is.
