{"id":2413,"date":"2025-06-09T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2025-06-07T17:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T16:29:14","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-june-9th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2413","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days June 9th 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-2e41141be51248e745dc14b80479b248\"><strong>Fake it to make it<\/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-ef0f5c703e2b53d99e2e420d026b1642\">Remember Mindfulness \u2013 close eyes briefly<\/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-0aede7603fe54a34652f902c1130cfe9\"><strong><br><em>Despite being anonymous, they all seemed<br>to understand and like each other very well.<br>That was my first impression of an AA<br>meeting. So, I kept going to meetings<br>because, I knew I had to. There were no<br>other options. Sometimes I was glad to go,<br>sometimes I pretended to be glad. An oldtimer<br>said: \u2018fake it to make it\u2019. Perhaps I<br>was doing that. In any case, a miracle was<br>happening because I was not drinking. I<br>thought that I had better keep on doing<br>the same thing, because it worked. I still<br>regularly go to that meeting. It has saved<br>my life. Anon.<\/em><br>Am I committed to attending meetings because I<br>know that I cannot be complacent about my<br>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-76eba0b7215b414c147b3a65c63f004f\"><strong><br>I do not need to understand the reasons why<br>something works before I do it. Just the fact that it<br>does work should be enough. I will apply the same<br>principle to the Twelve Step fellowships. I am<br>content to follow them and keep it simple. Today I<br>give thanks for the simple gifts that I have received.<\/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 Fake it to make it Remember Mindfulness \u2013 close eyes briefly Despite being anonymous, they all seemedto understand and like each other very well.That was my first impression of an AAmeeting. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2413\">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":[11,28,27,30,26,23,32],"class_list":["post-2413","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-meditation","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","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=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions\/2414"}],"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=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}