{"id":2009,"date":"2026-02-12T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:26:16","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-february-12th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2009","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days February 12th 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-66adf122f1ce98ada33ab388cc6da6bf\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 send positive thoughts<\/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-40abe519dccbc4d5a7d1bb560230dc27\"><strong>Determination<\/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-7f1072485763e867827cfc71d306695c\"><strong>Determination is one of the magic ingredients that<br>we think we need but probably already have, to<br>make our recovery work. In active addiction, most<br>of us were very determined people who would not<br>allow anything to stop us from obtaining the substance<br>we so urgently needed. We must now turn this<br>determination into an asset to help us reach our<br>goal of happy sobriety. Am I ready to use my<br>determination to help 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-56b3dd2d697d52378f3d27802ccd0ba3\"><strong>The word determination means not stopping \u2013 not<br>quitting. For so many people, quitting or giving up is<br>the softer, easier way that can become a habit in<br>itself. It may not feel very good when you give up on<br>something because it seems too difficult to continue,<br>but not feeling good about ourselves is the price<br>that many of us have paid in the past, so as to keep<br>our addictive behaviour going. This is entirely self-defeating<br>and feeds into the whole downwards<br>spiral of debilitation and despair that alcohol and<br>drugs create. Today I ask God for the strength to be<br>steadfast and determined in all that I attempt to do.<\/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 send positive thoughts Determination Determination is one of the magic ingredients thatwe think we need but probably already have, tomake our recovery work. In active addiction, mostof us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2009\">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":[11,15,28,27,30,23,22,32],"class_list":["post-2009","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-inspiration","tag-meditation","tag-recovery","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","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=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2011"}],"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=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}