{"id":2342,"date":"2026-05-19T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:17:11","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-may-19th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2342","title":{"rendered":"Daily reading from Recovery Days May 19th by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">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 wp-block-paragraph\">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 wp-block-paragraph\"><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-a06af6d2583f62633c4be7455f1c4a70 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><br>Honesty<\/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-e950a1327a1b0029e52a1812c6b4c307 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><br><em>If you tell the truth, you don&#8217;t have to remember anything.<br>Mark Twain.<\/em><br>We are victims of our own dishonesty. The tangled<br>web we weave when we tell lies, leaves us<br>floundering and trapped. The stress of dishonesty is<br>enormous, that\u2019s why lie detectors work so well. It\u2019s<br>also why honesty, openness and willingness to<br>change are the three components of successful<br>therapy. Unless you are honest, you cannot be<br>yourself and then therapy becomes pointless.<br>Some people get into the habit of telling lies<br>because they learn at an early age that it keeps<br>them out of trouble. Do I understand the harm<br>that I do to myself through my dishonesty?<\/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-400591f4b06efd6f700860d94c2d520d wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><br>Lack of self-honesty is at the root of all our<br>emotional upheavals and troubles. If I can\u2019t give<br>myself the honest respect that I deserve, then I<br>probably don\u2019t trust myself enough to make the<br>right judgments and choices. The danger of this is<br>that I may adopt the standards and ideas of<br>others instead \u2013 which may not be good. Much<br>better to be sure of my own integrity and to choose<br>according to my own ideals. I ask God today for the<br>self-respect to value my principles<\/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 briefly Honesty If you tell the truth, you don&#8217;t have to remember anything.Mark Twain.We are victims of our own dishonesty. 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