Jacki Hillios talked about transcending addiction and redefining recovery, she mentioned many good points. First point she mentioned is it’s hard to for a person recovering not to have someone understand and support them.”people matters”(Hillios, 2013) In addition, person who can is recovering can benefit from the person who been in similar situation. “doing it along by yourself on recovery is really hard” (Hillios, 2013)For example, other people recovering can learn from the phoenix multisport founder Scott Strode on how diverting his attention to climbing and boxing kept him sober or clean. Another key point she pointer out “people are not their disease” (Hillios, 2013) the addiction is the disease that infected the person, but they are still
