Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that it doesn’t get a day off.

Lovato frames recovery—whether from addiction, an eating disorder, or other mental-health struggles—as a daily practice rather than a one-time achievement. The insistence that it “doesn’t get a day off” underscores how relapse risk and old habits can reassert themselves when vigilance lapses. The quote also pushes back against the cultural desire for neat, finished narratives (“I’m cured”), replacing them with a maintenance model: routines, support systems, and self-monitoring repeated over time. In that sense, it is both sobering and empowering: sobering because it rejects shortcuts, empowering because it locates progress in consistent, ordinary effort rather than dramatic turning points.