{"id":2421,"date":"2025-06-12T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2025-06-11T16:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:45:37","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-june-12th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2421","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days June 12th 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-a537fba095e52337c30add0b466f93fc\"><strong><br>Humour<\/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-1b055c6d1bf48e3be1673d0bed612eab\"><strong>American writer Kurt Vonnegut said that we should<br>stop being so serious:<em> Jokes help a lot. And get a<br>dog, if you don\u2019t already have one. Vonnegut<\/em><br>certainly knew a thing or two about recovery from<br>difficult situations \u2013 he survived the Dresden firebombing<br>during WWII because he was locked up<br>as a prisoner inside an insulated slaughterhouse. As<br>a professed \u2018Christ-loving atheist\u2019, his view of life<br>was to help each other as much as possible. Can I<br>keep an open mind and not take myself too<br>seriously?<\/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-b2d446fbcf4afc303b23f5609e9b7998\"><strong>There is not much to laugh about in the aftermath of<br>addiction, but in our grimmest moments we<br>sometimes turn to dark comedy, because horror and<br>humour are often two sides of the same coin. It is a<br>bizarre experience to recount one\u2019s appalling secrets<br>to AA members who react with a nod of empathy<br>instead of a shriek of dismay. But how else should<br>we react to life\u2019s great challenges? Absurdist<br>philosopher Albert Camus\u2019 response was said to be:<br><em>Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?<\/em> I\u2019ll settle<br>for the coffee. Today I will take recovery seriously,<br>but not overlook humour.<\/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 Humour American writer Kurt Vonnegut said that we shouldstop being so serious: Jokes help a lot. And get adog, if you don\u2019t already &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2421\">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-2421","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\/2421","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=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/2422"}],"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=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}