{"id":2278,"date":"2026-04-29T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:29:10","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-april-29th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2278","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days April 29th 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-8a8d3d1294c3e2cca6e76c1ee3d14978\"><strong>Filling the void<\/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-c795c25713d8a6d31239459b45455867\"><strong>Addiction and creativity have always been closely<br>linked. Hardship, pain and frustration are often the<br>catalysts for great creativity and many great writers<br>and painters struggled with addiction. But recovery<br>and the freedom from suffering it brings, can also<br>produce great work. The AA Big Book, written by<br>recovering alcoholics for alcoholics, is a prime<br>example of this. AA co-founder People in recovery<br>sometimes find an unexpected talent that brings<br>them great enjoyment. This can \u2018fill the void\u2019 and<br>occupy them beneficially, when they take addiction<br>out of their lives. Am I ready to explore my potential<br>for new interests and activities?<\/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-dbe2572514fd36499f1772a0e2a1fffc\"><strong><br><em>Reach out &#8211; soothe another\u2019s pain.<br>Feel the friendship, feel the gain.<br>See your life begin to blossom.<br>Little sprigs of hopes forgotten<br>Growing into big strong trees.<br>Force the wine witch to her knees. Anon.<\/em><br>Sometimes poems like this, by a newly recovering<br>alcoholic, help build strength and determination to<br>stay sober, and a new interest too. Today I ask God<br>for the motivation to explore new ideas.<\/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 Filling the void Addiction and creativity have always been closelylinked. Hardship, pain and frustration are often thecatalysts for great creativity and many great writersand painters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2278\">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":[11,15,28,27,30,26,33,23,22,32],"class_list":["post-2278","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","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278","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=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/2280"}],"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=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}