{"id":2201,"date":"2026-04-07T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:56:22","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-april-7th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2201","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days April 7th 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-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-eff0563e700f5effecb5ddb6c62d3228\">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-4c4221a0dad19d1bba7fde8bfc3ce0d3\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 enjoy the moment<\/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-132b2991a843cea60f380cc0997135bf\"><strong>Disease of addiction<\/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-4193ed6a45b98fafb7a849e9a3f36933\"><strong>Our active addiction traps us in a kind of \u2018Stockholm<br>Syndrome\u2019 where the captive becomes emotionally<br>attached to the captor, despite the latter\u2019s malicious<br>intent. For some, giving up their addiction of<br>choice can seem like a bereavement, similar to the<br>loss of a loved one. We must recognise this<br>condition however illogical it may seem. Long term<br>addiction distorts our ability to see things as they<br>really are. We are complex people and addiction is a<br>very complex disease, but the underlying message is<br>very simple: it will kill us if we allow it to. Do I fully<br>understand that I have a disease that can kill me?<\/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-dbada925ffaeca8a3f6592da96dffa26\"><strong>It is almost unbelievable that intelligent people<br>would continue self-destructive behaviour to the<br>point of death when fully aware of the consequences.<br>Yet addicted people do it all the time. Fear of death<br>may seem less than fear of losing our drug or<br>behaviour of choice, but it is more complicated<br>than that. Emotional pain, self- deception and ego<br>are such toxic ingredients that only the most powerful<br>thing can defeat them \u2013 Higher Power. Today I ask<br>that I never forget the power of God\u2019s help.<\/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 enjoy the moment Disease of addiction Our active addiction traps us in a kind of \u2018StockholmSyndrome\u2019 where the captive becomes emotionallyattached to the captor, despite the latter\u2019s maliciousintent. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2201\">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-2201","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\/2201","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=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions\/2202"}],"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=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}