{"id":1885,"date":"2026-01-10T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:12:25","slug":"daily-reading-of-recovery-days-january-10th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1885","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading of Recovery Days January 10th by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">View VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;Tiktok.com\/@recoverydays<\/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-5f7353856e45ead0671713054d5527c0\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 close your eyes<\/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-2d2932273f9a73a200d62c2950e47275\"><strong>Reaching out<\/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-92565ce870a39ddf2511d2718285306d\"><strong><br>Asking for help also has a wider significance,<br>because it is part of the process of re-connecting with<br>others, which is essential to the recovery process. If<br>we do not ask for help, we are saying that we are<br>going to do this alone and very few can manage that.<br>The Responsibility Statement, often read out at AA<br>Meetings, tells us that it is members\u2019 responsibility<br>to offer support whenever anyone, anywhere, asks \u2013<br>just as they themselves have been helped. Am I ready<br>to reach out for help when I need it?<\/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-cd75a0cf4fffaccfa6939f071decae04\"><strong>Just as fellowship members take responsibility for<br>extending the hand of help to others, so must I take<br>personal responsibility for my recovery by asking for<br>help when I need it. Doing nothing should not be an<br>option, because that seems like old behaviour and<br>the victim role. Recovery is about doing things<br>differently. May I fully take responsibility for my new<br>life and recognise when I must take action to assert<br>my legitimate needs rather than doing nothing.<\/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 close your eyes Reaching out Asking for help also has a wider significance,because it is part of the process of re-connecting withothers, which is essential to the recovery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1885\">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":[11,28,27,30,33,23,22,32],"class_list":["post-1885","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-daily-inspiration","tag-fellowship","tag-meditation","tag-recovery","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","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=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/1894"}],"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=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}