{"id":1691,"date":"2025-11-11T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:54:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:54:46","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-november-11th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1691","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days November 11th 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-b75f1de7aa034206d72d8246e0a89a81\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 relax your body<\/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-6e294d8cf80d03dfe920050483feb7e4\"><strong><br>Sex addiction<\/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-667c62b1bba2080259c83f7e3a8b14ac\"><strong><br><em>As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from<br>uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed<br>in his bed into a monstrous insect.<br>Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis.<\/em><br>Thus begins Kafka\u2019s best-known story. The sinister<br>tone of some of Kafka\u2019s writings has led people to<br>wonder if the great man struggled with some form<br>of addiction. Could metamorphosis into a horrible<br>insect be some kind of metaphor for drug<br>dependence, they wondered. A 2008 biography by<br>Dr James Hawes, confirmed their speculation by<br>revealing that Kafka had a sex addiction. Perhaps<br>the \u2018monstrous insect\u2019 that he described was indeed<br>an actualisation of his shame and guilt. The reality<br>today is that ten percent of internet websites<br>contain pornography, and thousands struggle with<br>some form of sex addiction. Am I aware of the<br>dangers of sex addiction and cross-addiction?<\/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-311a847256c97535b3309381386e65b7\"><strong><br>Sex addiction especially impacts self-esteem and<br>relationships. Help is available in the Twelve Step<br>programme of Sex Addicts Anonymous. All<br>addictions are treatable with honesty, openness<br>and willingness to change. I will remember today<br>that: there, but for the grace of God, go I.<\/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 relax your body Sex addiction As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning fromuneasy dreams, he found himself transformedin his bed into a monstrous insect.Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis.Thus begins Kafka\u2019s best-known &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1691\">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":[11,28,27,33,22,32],"class_list":["post-1691","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-connection","tag-fellowship","tag-recovery","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","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=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1693"}],"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=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}