{"id":2191,"date":"2026-04-04T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2026-04-03T07:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:36:06","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-april-4th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2191","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days April 4th 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-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 Close eyes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>Honest in all my affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>Absolute honesty requires constant attention. Many<br>addicted people are experts at \u2018getting away with<br>things.\u2019 For example, blaming others for our<br>situation is usually a form of dishonesty to ourselves<br>because we cannot face the reality that we are<br>responsible for the choices we make. Denial of the<br>severity of our illness is another example. Unless we<br>can get into the habit of being rigorously honest<br>with ourselves in every way, then no amount of<br>courage or positive action is going to help us stay<br>sober because we will be starting from a position of<br>unreality. Will I be honest today in all my affairs?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>Honesty demands courage. So often in the past, we<br>chose the softer, easier way because we weren\u2019t<br>brave enough to stand up for the truth. In recovery,<br>we must change. Where do we find that courage?<br>From our Higher Power, acting through people &#8211;<br>support and example of our brothers and sisters in<br>recovery. I ask God today for strength in my<br>weakness, courage<\/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 \u2013 Close eyes Honest in all my affairs Absolute honesty requires constant attention. Manyaddicted people are experts at \u2018getting away withthings.\u2019 For example, blaming others for oursituation is usually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2191\">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":[11,15,28,27,30,26,33,23,32],"class_list":["post-2191","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\/2191","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=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/2193"}],"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=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}