{"id":1961,"date":"2026-01-29T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:12:41","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-january-29th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1961","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days January 29th by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">View VIDEO on FView 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\/@recoverydaysacebook&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120<\/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-1b89004318e051d3fe14d7e4cd75fbc6\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 close your eyes briefly<\/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-c6160295953ec63e65503281ec119ef5\"><strong>Courage to change<\/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-2cc7d4b15a5f4a1643ab3790ba63f7c0\"><strong>Courage to change is a big idea to contemplate.<br>Courage to try, somehow seems more manageable.<br>Remember that we seek progress not perfection.<br>When you have been stuck in addiction for many<br>years, it becomes a kind of negative comfort zone &#8211; you<br>may feel unhappy, but at least it is a familiar feeling.<br>But those who stay in their comfort zone never<br>change, never mature, never grow. Perhaps the fear<br>of facing reality is greater than the fear of the<br>unknown. A ship is safe in harbour but that\u2019s not<br>what ships are for \u2013 that is another way of saying<br>that our life experience will expand in proportion to<br>our courage. Am I ready to test my courage with a<br>small step into the unknown?<\/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-0b7cc6deb6e7bbc998614ac775dfa880\"><strong>Perhaps you will always remember the day that you<br>decided to take that first step of courage \u2013 that day<br>when you finally accepted the need to do something<br>and took action. Therefore, I ask God for courage<br>to help me save the only life I can save \u2013 my own.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View VIDEO on FView VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120 Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;Tiktok.com\/@recoverydaysacebook&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120 Remember Mindfulness \u2013 close your eyes briefly Courage to change Courage to change is a big idea to contemplate.Courage to try, somehow seems more manageable.Remember that we seek &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1961\">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":[11,15,28,27,30,23,32],"class_list":["post-1961","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-meditation","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","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=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/1963"}],"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=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}