{"id":2269,"date":"2025-04-26T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2025-04-25T08:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T07:44:41","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-april-26th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2269","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days April 26th 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-0f70e924b634251cfc899c396e8d8859\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 relax your whole body gradually<\/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-bffbd5c745bcbe1ff7d366bdc7a9f531\"><strong><br>Learning life\u2019s lessons<\/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-eaf8c652ae4b2eb8e1e78e20e9cc2a4d\"><strong>Anyone in recovery who reads Alice in Wonderland<br>might see it as an allegory about addiction. A young<br>girl disappears down a rabbit hole into a fantasy<br>world where she discovers mind and body-altering<br>substances. It&#8217;s also a story about self-discovery:<br>Who in the world am I? she asks. She<br>learns too about growing up and making the right<br>choices. By the end of the book, Alice is behaving<br>like an adult: It\u2019s no use going back to yesterday,<br>she says, because I was a different person then.<br>The book helps us understand the challenges<br>of growing up, though there is no evidence<br>that the author had addiction in mind. Am I<br>open to learning lessons in life from all sources?<br><em>We\u2019re all mad here. I\u2019m mad. You\u2019re mad.<br>How do you know I\u2019m mad? said Alice.<br>You must be, said the Cat, or you wouldn\u2019t<br>have come here. But let me tell you something.<br>The best people usually are.<br>Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.<\/em><\/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-bba8a97c7981a5921e86f2752f78ba79\"><strong>Such wise words of acceptance. I\u2019ve heard<br>similar things at AA meetings. Today I ask God for<br>the wisdom to know I have an illness that is<br>mental, physical and spiritual.<\/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 relax your whole body gradually Learning life\u2019s lessons Anyone in recovery who reads Alice in Wonderlandmight see it as an allegory about addiction. 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