{"id":2113,"date":"2026-03-15T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:56:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:56:57","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-march-15th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2113","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days March 15th 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-451331ef2cb23cb75752d098b9e78b36\"><br><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 listen to the silence<\/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-6665f3b4f223088cf78463d92b703b47\"><strong>Fellowship meetings<\/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-94be50771079b455f122e89edc24ecf3\"><strong>If we surrender our lives to a Higher Power, that<br>does not make us prisoners. We should not attend<br>Twelve Step meetings as unwilling hostages,<br>somehow compelled to be there through fear and<br>the thought of disaster, because we have not paid<br>our proper dues to the system. Instead, we should<br>attend because this new way sober life fulfils our<br>need for meaning and belonging. With gratitude in<br>our hearts and an eagerness to improve, we go to<br>meetings to learn from the words and example of<br>other recovering people. Am I glad to learn and to<br>share the same way of life that I find there?<\/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-528790676ed877c0b0ecb53b68d98d91\"><strong><br>When I feel the power of example and the serenity that<br>is present in the fellowship meetings, any thought<br>that my attendance is a ransom that I pay for my<br>sobriety vanishes. I no longer have the desire to<br>drink and use because I am happy and healthy \u2013<br>physically, mentally and spiritually. I no longer<br>struggle with desire for my old addictive behaviour<br>and for that I am grateful. Today I give thanks for<br>my recovery as a blessing not a restriction.<\/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 listen to the silence Fellowship meetings If we surrender our lives to a Higher Power, thatdoes not make us prisoners. We should not attendTwelve Step meetings as unwilling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2113\">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":[11,15,28,27,30,26,33,23,32],"class_list":["post-2113","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-daily-reflections","tag-fellowship","tag-meditation","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","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=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/2116"}],"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=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}