{"id":2251,"date":"2025-04-22T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2025-04-21T12:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T11:13:53","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-april-22nd-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2251","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from recovery Days April 22nd 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-83010653d7d1e6c241c9d2fab262c190\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness &#8211; close eyes<\/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-e9642936e4c0e11b449938611324ef8b\"><strong>Progress, not perfection<\/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-b5cd35618d1dd71bfccafb496ddb3c6f\"><strong>Active addiction leads to a form of soul sickness.<br>People become a poor imitation of the person they<br>once were. But on sobering up, they come to<br>themselves, as they come to their senses. The<br>addicted self is not the real self. To some extent we<br>are dual personalities who need to become whole<br>again. That means to regain our integrity. It will<br>require courage, honesty and realism but with the<br>help of our Higher Power, it can be done. Carl Jung<br>said in his letter to Bill W: Alcoholism is a spiritual<br>disease the basis of which is man\u2019s yearning<br>for wholeness.<\/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-e19ddda10f0d51d69d9894eb33583d29\"><strong><br>Am I ready to regain my true integrity?<br>Many of us sought for completeness and wholeness<br>in our addiction, but no addictive behaviour can<br>provide such a thing. We can only find meaning and<br>purpose in life through a belief in a Higher Power<br>and the knowledge that we are doing what is right.<br>Perfection is not required, only steady progress.<br>Today I ask that I will do my best in everything I<br>attempt and that every choice that I make today will<br>be the best for the recovery of others and of myself.<\/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; close eyes Progress, not perfection Active addiction leads to a form of soul sickness.People become a poor imitation of the person theyonce were. But on sobering up, they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2251\">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":[11,15,28,27,30,33,23,22,32],"class_list":["post-2251","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-fellowship","tag-meditation","tag-recovery","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","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=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions\/2252"}],"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=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}