“ Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping .” Juliea Margaret Cameron  Many recovery models treat recovery as a pass/fail situation. Each relapse is experienced as a total failure necessitating starting over. Reset the clock to day one. The previous months and sometimes years of recovery are no longer counted. As if all of the work, tears, and growth are nothing. No wonder people get discouraged and believe they may never recover. A spiritually affirming approach connects to cycles of nature. Growth in nature is often in spiral patterns and it is never in a perfectly straight line. When spiraling in a growth pattern we are frequently at the same issue as we progress around and as we grow, the spiral takes us to that struggle less and less often, with more strength and skills each time.