{"id":2288,"date":"2026-05-02T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2026-05-01T06:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:23:35","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-may-2nd-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days May 2nd 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-4c4221a0dad19d1bba7fde8bfc3ce0d3\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 enjoy the moment<\/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-0adb3f4bbe47251861c6ff1c0533d3eb\"><strong><br>Head to heart<\/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-e1b0d79062b4f511af1b0b4b4886232e\"><strong>Think of the worst experience that you can<br>remember, perhaps something that made you angry<br>or ashamed. If you could have it cancelled, but on<br>condition that everything that happened as a result<br>would also be cancelled \u2013 would you do it? How<br>much did you learn from that negative experience?<br>The worst experience is often the greatest<br>opportunity for growth. Change does not happen<br>through the passing of information alone, but<br>through the way things make us feel. Willingness to<br>change means learning from the bad as well as the<br>good. Am I truly willing 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-9b3ac59b04e11fd931379452b60f8802\"><strong><br>The beauty of the Twelve Steps is that you can keep<br>growing for the rest of your life. When you hear<br>someone speaking at a meeting and you think:<br>That\u2019s what I want, then you are feeling something<br>as well as hearing it. The message goes from the<br>head to the heart and that is how spiritual growth<br>comes about. Today I am grateful to grow in the<br>Twelve Step programme that never stops giving.<\/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 enjoy the moment Head to heart Think of the worst experience that you canremember, perhaps something that made you angryor ashamed. If you could have it cancelled, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2288\">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":[11,15,28,27,30,26,33,22,32],"class_list":["post-2288","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-recovery","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","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=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/2292"}],"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=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}