{"id":2458,"date":"2025-06-27T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2025-06-20T17:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:59:02","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-june-27th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2458","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days June 27th 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-66adf122f1ce98ada33ab388cc6da6bf\"><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-044d479f5566c02be5d7aefe0bc08a2f\"><strong><br>Spiritual growth<\/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-3d4d3689f87d9d232678b7d6a2b1089f\"><strong><br>Growth involves change. Twelve Step programmes<br>are basically a re-training of our hearts and minds to<br>new ideas. If we don\u2019t grow, we are not living life to<br>our full potential. Growth demands that we come<br>out of our comfort zone. It may mean forsaking<br>some familiar but negative patterns of thought and<br>behaviour that we have become used to, but which<br>now are no longer fit for purpose: unsuitable<br>friends, inappropriate opinions and attitudes, and<br>maladaptive coping strategies.<br>Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is<br>what people fear most.<br>Fyodor Dostoyevsky.<br>Instead of fear of the new, my real fear should be of<br>not making changes. Am I ready to make the<br>changes I need, in order to grow spiritually?<\/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-c1d2b39c0735fa63dbbd7f9aa53e22ef\"><strong>My spiritual journey will be rewarding if I seek the<br>guidance of my Higher Power. Only my pride or<br>dishonesty will stop me from making progress.<br>Today I ask that I continue to receive guidance on<br>my spiritual journey.<\/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 Spiritual growth Growth involves change. Twelve Step programmesare basically a re-training of our hearts and minds tonew ideas. 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