{"id":2442,"date":"2025-06-19T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2025-06-18T08:07:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T07:07:34","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-june-19th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2442","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days June 19th 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-782daad068584b6798565af9d6154218\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 review expectations<\/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-fe1775d89583aff787bb3536ec944acd\"><strong><br>Keep it simple<\/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-fc275314dba827f3c00d9ed443b88ccd\"><strong>For many people, the words: I did this &#8211; it worked,<br>are more compelling than: Do this \u2013 it will work.<br>The Twelve Steps don\u2019t instruct, they merely<br>suggest that we do the things that worked for others.<br>They do not claim that theirs is the only path to<br>sobriety. We tend to question direct orders, whereas<br>the example of another is difficult to deny. The<br>Twelve Steps are known as a simple programme for<br>complicated people. The slogan \u2018Keep it Simple\u2019 is<br>not just something to hang on the wall but<br>something we should carry around in our hearts<br>and minds wherever we go. Am I keeping things<br>simple?<\/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-3d09dd5f94d690e34fec235147ac8d18\"><strong><br>It is usually my ego that leads me to question things.<br>Of course, some actions and some statements need<br>to be questioned. Perhaps I should check if I am<br>suitably qualified, before I raise my hand. Do I<br>know better what is good for me, than people with<br>years of sobriety? My track record seems to indicate<br>otherwise. There is sense in the old timers\u2019 advice to<br>take the cotton wool out of my ears and put it in my<br>mouth. I ask God today to give me the common<br>sense to listen to advice instead of questioning.<\/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 review expectations Keep it simple For many people, the words: I did this &#8211; it worked,are more compelling than: Do this \u2013 it will work.The Twelve Steps don\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2442\">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":[11,15,28,27,30,26,33,23],"class_list":["post-2442","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-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","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=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/2467"}],"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=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}