{"id":2265,"date":"2025-04-25T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2025-04-24T09:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T08:57:36","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-april-25th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2265","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days April 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-26f88d9ea7673a2c9e01daed54e66154\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 close 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-a2a9a1a887da25d4e49fa232bf8ef94f\"><strong><br>Happy 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-eff451b7b7ce9973d832d103699c786c\"><strong><br>What can we do to make recovery a joyful experience?<br>For a start, we can shed some burdens:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>Make sure that we have addressed the past<br>and made amends<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>We must do Steps Four to Seven<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>Stop worrying about tomorrow &#8211; focus on today<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>Hand life\u2019s problems over to a Higher Power.<br>Having shed these three burdens, we can<br>try some new ideas:<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>Cultivate friendships, perhaps in the fellowships<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>Explore new interests<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>Discover the pleasure in helping others.<br>We should always remember that happiness comes<br>as a result of good actions. Am I ready to build a<br>happy recovery, helped by my Twelve Step group?<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong><br>The American psychologist M Scott Peck, in his<br>book The Road Less Travelled, spoke about the<br>blessing of alcoholism because it puts people into a<br>visible state of crisis for which there is a ready-made<br>therapeutic community \u2013 an AA group. How<br>fortunate we are to have this. I ask God today for the<br>enthusiasm to build a contented and meaningful<br>recovery.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/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 briefly Happy recovery What can we do to make recovery a joyful experience?For a start, we can shed some burdens:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,31,20],"tags":[11,15,28,27,30,26,23,22,32],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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-meditation","tag-recovery","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","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=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2266"}],"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=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}