{"id":1596,"date":"2025-10-15T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2025-10-14T06:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:09:04","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-october-15th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days October 15th by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-551741cdb4b4efe03723a18ea0225230\"><strong>View 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-black-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-f8ed101762af1b26fb2bc4018e0c7643\"><strong>Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays\">Tiktok.com\/@recoverydays<\/a><\/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-37dad81643d6e7680adda257f5727ed1\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness &#8211; Listen to the silence<\/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-53fd9b5530d5f7556adc6304baca63ea\"><strong>Unity<\/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-fc6aaf0bc91d634e44ae0f367f2e1144\"><strong><br>Unity is the bedrock of personal recovery. The<br>founders of Alcoholics Anonymous appreciated this<br>quite early on. If we cannot recover together in<br>unity, then our whole fellowship \u2013 its structure and<br>its members &#8211; will melt away, leaving us without<br>support of any kind. We may become too weak to<br>survive on our own. Your fellowship needs you! I<br>have a responsibility to support the organisation<br>that has given me so much. The idea that: I can\u2019t<br>but we can is not unique to Twelve Step Fellowships<br>but is nevertheless true. Am I aware of the<br>importance of unity?<\/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-f7a2293b70d3dabb9d83c07c1540e4c3\"><strong><br>A Twelve Step fellowship is democracy in action<br>(though it has been described as \u2018high-functioning<br>anarchy\u2019). We act together, not as individuals. That<br>means there is no leader, no one person in charge<br>who makes rules or decisions on our behalf. Nobody<br>has the right to ban us or stifle dissent and everyone<br>may have their own views. Hierarchies and rules<br>lead to punishments, resentments and disunity.<br>Responsibility, unselfishness and love bind us<br>together. For that, I give thanks.<\/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 &#8211; Listen to the silence Unity Unity is the bedrock of personal recovery. Thefounders of Alcoholics Anonymous appreciated thisquite early on. 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