Pain does not mean you are going backward.

Recovery does not promise a life without grief, disappointment, stress, or hard seasons.

Sometimes life simply hurts.

The standard is not to panic and treat every painful moment like evidence that recovery is failing.

Feel it. Face it. Keep moving.

Pain is part of being alive.

It is not regression.

https://jimlunsford.com/recovery-standard-pain-is-not-regression/