{"id":2157,"date":"2026-03-25T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2026-03-24T07:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:09:59","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-march-25th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2157","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days March 25th 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-66adf122f1ce98ada33ab388cc6da6bf\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 send positive thoughts<\/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-ec6e71b495de1624af574ab47b9ece6e\"><strong>Hope in recovery<\/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-1d9f2c680b0956c6a8c7ae2701851711\"><strong>It is said that there are five stages of recovery:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\">\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-359cf84c2d820bc6913bf2e46595c447\"><strong>Loss and surrender<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d2cb887eeb31089de370a58809fbc1c6\"><strong>Awakening of hope<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d5bc72556fa502db53ebfe67ac2f7e94\"><strong>Taking stock of resources<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-915928bf414efb3a9994408f64280066\"><strong>Rebuilding<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2baaa9dcf6386c049122795ba71a7073\"><strong>Personal growth.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-62f8d05e5604c34f87dd7c7b8dc2f762\"><br><strong>This is what the Twelve Steps are about. When we<br>take ownership of our illness and take responsibility<br>for change, we start to see how change can happen<br>by following these Steps. But at this moment, we<br>also need hope. The most likely way of finding hope<br>is through the example of others because God works<br>through other people. Am I sure that I am a worthy<br><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0795adcdf5766c552a3c0a2f310882c3\"><strong>Understanding the nature of my illness and gaining<br>a true picture of what needs to be done about it, are<br>the basis for a life of recovery. The inspiration to<br>work the programme comes from the knowledge<br>that my Higher Power is at my side to help me, in<br>the same way as others I see are being helped.<br>Today I ask God for the vision to see what I need to<br>do for my recovery and the strength to take action.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 send positive thoughts Hope in recovery It is said that there are five stages of recovery:<\/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-2157","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\/2157","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=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/2158"}],"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=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}