{"id":2367,"date":"2026-05-28T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2026-05-28T06:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:05:02","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-may-28th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2367","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days May 28th by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">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 wp-block-paragraph\">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 wp-block-paragraph\"><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-a722b71d9619da923f51d117d79a3890 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Better than well<\/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-70551c3b35ee4c86a3c80099c47c15d7 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>People sometimes remark that those in addiction<br>recovery are strangely joyful and wonder how that<br>can be possible, especially when in a sober state.<br>The fact is that there is such relief in setting down<br>the great burden of our past misdemeanours that we<br>are bound to feel happy. Add to that the feeling of<br>belonging and the sense of purpose that we find in<br>Twelve Step fellowships, and our joyous appearance<br>is not surprising at all. Life is said to be what<br>happens when you are making other plans, but a<br>chance of a second life only happens when you have<br>scrapped your first plans in favour of much better<br>ones. Am I grateful for the chance of a second life?<\/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-cdbf5c51e63ec35f1a2c9b6c6d9c4e98 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>All we really need to make us happy is something to<br>be enthusiastic about. In recovery, we are turning<br>our lives around, beyond our wildest dreams. No<br>wonder we are happy. Our feelings influence our<br>actions, but our actions also influence our feelings.<br>As the philosopher William James put it: I don\u2019t<br>sing because I\u2019m happy. I\u2019m happy because I<br>sing.<br>I thank God today that happiness is not a state of<br>mind but an activity too.<\/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 Better than well People sometimes remark that those in addictionrecovery are strangely joyful and wonder how thatcan be possible, especially when in a sober state.The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2367\">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-2367","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\/2367","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=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions\/2369"}],"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=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}