{"id":1503,"date":"2025-09-21T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2025-09-20T07:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:52:28","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-september-21st-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days September  21st by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-ef09045cdd219b2a7794e6aaf0c7fbc8\"><strong>View VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094027278120\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-2bd5614927128f26d3fa407bb29fd2f4\"><strong>Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays\">Tiktok.com\/@recoverydays <\/a>   <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-0b7eb52a52bce59ffee1b3888ea4eb1c\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 feel your body from top to toes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-8810de4798c7dcad3f645cd65bb4b644\"><strong><br>Spiritual bond<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-6b142bf862bc89d3a26137e7e2133a16\"><strong><br>There are more ways than one of getting sober. In<br>some countries they put alcoholics in jails so remote<br>that it\u2019s not worth escaping. In the Western world<br>there is understanding but also ignorance. The AA<br>way is through surrender to a Higher Power.<br>Nobody in AA specifies what that power might be, it<br>is enough that it exists. This spiritual element<br>seems to open people so that they come together.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1f9cd677783dd7340f363d0c1aa1b455\"><strong><br>Addiction devastates our self-esteem. There have been<br>many days in the past when we looked in the mirror<br>and did not like what we saw. Now we can look in<br>the mirror and see a good person smiling back, as<br>poet Walt Whitman seems to do:<br><em>I celebrate myself, and sing myself,<br>And what I assume, you shall assume,<br>For every atom belonging to me<br>As good belongs to you. Walt Whitman.<\/em><br>Like it or not, he says, there is a connection and a<br>bond between us all. Today I give thanks for the<br>bond that exists between all living things.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120 Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;Tiktok.com\/@recoverydays Remember Mindfulness \u2013 feel your body from top to toes Spiritual bond There are more ways than one of getting sober. 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