{"id":2118,"date":"2026-03-16T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2026-03-15T07:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T06:25:58","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-march-16th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2118","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days March 16th 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-c92c3be4aa006b0a35cf017c48990f97\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 breathe deeply<\/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-1f1b0d8860539e034e81b66301793128\"><strong>Power of example<\/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-d98fc3e911323d5440ab766445705b53\"><strong>When other people in recovery share their<br>experience, strength and hope, then we can identify<br>with their struggles and be inspired to succeed in<br>the same way. The power of their example<br>empowers us, but we should never make<br>comparisons or judgements about what we hear.<br>People recovering from addiction share their<br>innermost pain in the sure knowledge that they will<br>not be criticised and that their anonymity is secure.<br>Absolute honesty from those who share is<br>fundamental to the process of recovery, but integrity<br>on the part of the listener is essential too. Am I ready<br>to experience the power of example without being<br>judgemental or critical?<\/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-1673a163f055d98681af11257181f00e\"><strong>Today, I live. Today, I have self-worth. Today, I am<br>happy and healthy. My mental health is good. I<br>have changed physically, spiritually and mentally. I<br>am right to feel happy, but I cannot be complacent.<br>It may seem as if I no longer need to do very much<br>for my recovery in terms of action, but I must<br>conserve the right attitudes of honesty, gratitude,<br>humility and helping others and to do this, I go to<br>meetings. Today I ask God for the will to practice<br>recovery principles in my daily life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/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 breathe deeply Power of example When other people in recovery share theirexperience, strength and hope, then we can identifywith their struggles and be inspired to succeed inthe same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2118\">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":[11,28,27,30,26,33,23,32],"class_list":["post-2118","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-daily-reflections","tag-fellowship","tag-meditation","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","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=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2120,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/2120"}],"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=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}