{"id":1908,"date":"2026-01-14T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2026-01-13T06:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:58:32","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-january-14th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1908","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days January 14th by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">View VIDEO on FView 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\/@recoverydaysacebook&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120<\/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-ee20d0e5c78eaa06bd7e92efef8c8ea8\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 send positivity<\/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-09f4706bb785933535ed8a4c3f743920\"><strong><br>Positive action<\/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-d553c42bd0ce5653c2be86f96bf85c28\"><strong><br>Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computers, once<br>said that there is a remarkable power in the simple<br>act of asking for help but that most people miss out,<br>because they never ask. How sad it would be for<br>anyone to not achieve their potential in life, simply<br>because they could not persuade themselves to<br>communicate their needs to another human being.<br>Am I prepared to make the act of asking for help a<br>central part of my plan for taking positive action to<br>grow my recovery?<\/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-7c6e5f3974ac44ee08ce2c4e88e93f23\"><strong>Accepting our powerlessness and asking for help are<br>our starting point in recovery. They are the essence<br>of the first three Steps. The feeling of relief that<br>results from completing these Steps can best be<br>summed up in the words of mediaeval saint Julian of<br>Norwich: All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner<br>of things shall be well (St Julian)<br>Today I ask that I will not be too proud, too<br>fearful or too uninterested to take the positive<br>action of asking for help when I need to do so.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View VIDEO on FView VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120 Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;Tiktok.com\/@recoverydaysacebook&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120 Remember Mindfulness \u2013 send positivity Positive action Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computers, oncesaid that there is a remarkable power in the simpleact of asking for help but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1908\">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":[11,15,28,27,26,33,23,32],"class_list":["post-1908","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-addiction-treatment","tag-castle-craig","tag-connection","tag-daily-reflections","tag-fellowship","tag-meditation","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","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=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions\/1910"}],"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=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}