{"id":1997,"date":"2026-02-08T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:21:47","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-february-8th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1997","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days February 8th 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-01c81d7cab4a30e1ea777819245bc3fb\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 close 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-b6e60356c59577b62b0d062557253aa3\"><strong>Relationships<\/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-512467f8dd6631b5fcb2de709ca89f87\"><strong><br>Relationships and connections lie at the heart of a<br>lot of our emotions. When we are angry, fearful,<br>happy, or grieving it is probably because of some<br>glitch in the relationship we have with others. It<br>may not be our fault (as when somebody dies, for<br>example but as always, the key lies in our response.<br>If we are to establish meaningful connections with<br>others, then we must work at maintaining them and<br>the Twelve Steps show us the way. Do I understand<br>that re-connecting with others is a vital part of my<br>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-99328697fdcdf416c859a99b5a2a9c30\"><strong><em>Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to<br>seek and find all the barriers within yourself that<br>you have built against it.<br>Rumi.<\/em><br>What Rumi says about love is equally true for any<br>sort of relationship. We put up barriers sometimes<br>out of fear or ignorance. Our work on ourselves in<br>recovery tells us of the dangers of judging others.<br>We need to keep an open mind. Today I ask God<br>for the precious gift of friendship.<\/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 eyes Relationships Relationships and connections lie at the heart of alot of our emotions. When we are angry, fearful,happy, or grieving it is probably because of someglitch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1997\">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":[14,17,20],"tags":[11,15,28,27,30,26,33,23,32],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-addiction-recovery-2","category-behavioural-addiction-2","category-living-skills","tag-addiction-recovery","tag-addiction-treatment","tag-castle-craig","tag-connection","tag-daily-inspiration","tag-daily-reflections","tag-fellowship","tag-meditation","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","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=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/1999"}],"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=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}