{"id":1456,"date":"2025-09-08T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2025-09-07T08:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:38:18","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-september-8th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1456","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days September 8th by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-86419866f287ab5bf1daa673f8db23de\"><strong>Vieccburn@me.com&nbsp;<br>w VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094027278120\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-ba1aa48c4a7173ea98b671762cfd9e33\"><strong>Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=p<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-17edef87043885040d05bfe3c1847adc\"><strong>YouTube&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Recoverydays_chris\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Recoverydays_ch<\/a>Remember M<\/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-4c4221a0dad19d1bba7fde8bfc3ce0d3\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 enjoy the moment<\/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-3a8bf2a3a4b62dab4660c0510d4b6eb6\"><strong><br>Into action<\/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-5ae66c79d9d39e06ea38f8f28f2e8f37\"><strong><br>There is a common perception that drug<br>dependence is linked to low moral fibre and a \u2018bad<br>attitude.\u2019 Some say that all one needs, in order to<br>quit, is willpower. They tend to be people who have<br>never known the courage that an addicted person<br>on the streets requires, just to face each new day.<br>Denigrating people with addiction makes the<br>situation worse. Do I extend the hand of help and<br>understanding to those struggling with 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-ff2f7f43320d11bcef423d01f033a014\"><strong><br><em>To think is easy, to act is difficult, to act as<br>one thinks is most difficult.<br>Wolfgang Von Goethe.<\/em><br>How easy it can be to agree with a sensible idea for<br>action, and then do nothing. Satisfaction lies in the<br>effort I make, not the thoughts I have. So much of<br>my past life has been about making excuses and<br>procrastination. If I am really going to change, then<br>I must become a \u2018doer\u2019 instead of a \u2018thinker\u2019. It<br>requires a shift of basic attitude. Today I ask for the<br>motivation to act in making change happen.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vieccburn@me.com&nbsp;w VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120 Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=p YouTube&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Recoverydays_chRemember M Remember Mindfulness \u2013 enjoy the moment Into action There is a common perception that drugdependence is linked to low moral fibre and a \u2018badattitude.\u2019 Some say that all one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1456\">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":[11,28,30,23,32],"class_list":["post-1456","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-daily-inspiration","tag-meditation","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","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=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1460"}],"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=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}