{"id":1563,"date":"2025-10-08T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2025-10-07T06:35:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:35:53","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-october-8th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1563","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days October 8th by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-551741cdb4b4efe03723a18ea0225230\"><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-black-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-f8ed101762af1b26fb2bc4018e0c7643\"><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-782daad068584b6798565af9d6154218\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 review expectations<\/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-867d267b20a8a4cf56c589ed28a4ff3d\"><strong><br>Facing challenges<\/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-26215f1724dd4b88a3656aed7fca6bf1\"><strong><br>Danish physicist and Nobel laureate Niels Bohr was born on this day in 1885. An agnostic with a sense of humour, he is famous for his dictum about the horseshoe he kept over his front door: They say it works, even if you don&#8217;t believe in it. Difficulties should be welcomed as great opportunities, he said: Every great<br>and deep difficulty bears in itself its own<br>solution. Such words should resonate with those in early recovery. Do I see life\u2019s challenges as opportunities for growth?<\/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-cde49037a64ddebaca84c2d4a0c4e224\"><strong><br>Our ability as humans to create problems seems to be matched by our ability to find solutions. Here are some methods:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-3f640c7180078de38876e0c8ae248e41\">\n<li>Keep positive: easy does it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plan &#8211; a day at a time<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Accept help: let go and let God<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Focus: what really matters?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Don\u2019t over-think: keep it simple<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>When I embrace challenges, I grow in maturity. It is all part of reversing the lifestyle that started with my powerlessness and unmanageability. I give thanks today for the Twelve Steps.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 review expectations Facing challenges Danish physicist and Nobel laureate Niels Bohr was born on this day in 1885. An agnostic with a sense of humour, he is famous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1563\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17,31,20],"tags":[11,28,30,33,23,32],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-addiction-recovery-2","category-behavioural-addiction-2","category-daily-inspiration","category-living-skills","tag-addiction-recovery","tag-castle-craig","tag-daily-inspiration","tag-fellowship","tag-meditation","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}