Laravel Soft Delete restore() Error

Another option is to search through the trashed models for a specific ID:

Post::onlyTrashed()->where('id', $post_id)->restore();

Error says $post is a non-object, Laravel doesn't return trashed records without withTrashed()

Post::withTrashed()->find($post_id)->restore();

Laravel Docs - Soft Deleting

When querying a model that uses soft deletes, the "deleted" models will not be included...