{"id":2345,"date":"2026-05-20T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2026-05-19T05:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:39:06","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-may-20th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2345","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days May 20th 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-66adf122f1ce98ada33ab388cc6da6bf wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 send positive thoughts<\/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-2ad8c233933c10c2fddbd46a3d5f90a0 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Denial<\/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-d5a0f73b87f7ce462340d682b42af97e wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to<br>change the world. Today I am wise, so I<br>am changing myself. Rumi.<\/strong><br><strong>Feeling that we were clever and able to get away<br>with bad behaviour simply led us further down the<br>slippery slope of addiction. It may seem clever to<br>us during the bad times to change our job, our<br>location, our doctor or even our spouse \u2013 anything<br>in fact, except to change ourselves \u2013 the one thing we<br>really needed to change. That is not the behaviour<br>of a clever person but of somebody blinded by<br>selfishness and denial. How clever am I ?<\/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-b777a2f5c750de941c5b2de1c2a97a37 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Denial is the refuge where we hide from reality, and<br>it takes courage and humility to come out and admit<br>we were wrong. Years of denial turn us into people<\/strong><br><strong>\u2018constitutionally incapable of being honest with<br>themselves\u2019 that are mentioned in Chapter Five of the<br>AA Big Book. We should not expect to turn that<br>around easily, it may take time. If we can identify<br>the problem and commit to doing something about<br>it honestly, then we have made a start. Today I ask<br>for honesty to face reality.<\/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 send positive thoughts Denial Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted tochange the world. Today I am wise, so Iam changing myself. 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