{"id":2561,"date":"2025-07-14T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2025-07-15T06:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T05:19:32","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-july-13th-by-chris-b-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2561","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days July 14th 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-26f88d9ea7673a2c9e01daed54e66154\"><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-23671e65da30d7f128e7cd3e631383b4\"><strong>Managing my internal revolution<\/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-ae58d12193a1c1bcff2f37b939b1eeef\"><strong>The storming of the Bastille in Paris on this day in<br>1789 marked the start of a decade of bloody<br>revolution which led to the rise of Napoleon<br>Bonaparte &#8211; perhaps France\u2019s most glorious era.. It\u2019s<br>tempting to use the event as a metaphor for all kinds<br>of situations where great gain comes out of great<br>pain. Addicted people make their own drama and<br>we all need a revolution to depose our internal<br>\u2018ancien regime\u2019 of sloth, dishonesty and hypocrisy.<br>No need to say more. Can I embrace my recovery in<br>the spirit of sobriety, liberty and fraternity?<\/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-e890c26d9f97b350a1e19d391a21df67\"><strong>I must accept the world as it is. Life is difficult and I<br>must take care not to make it any worse. People only<br>behave violently, as they did in the French<br>Revolution, when they have nothing to lose. But I on<br>the other hand must behave well, because I have<br>everything to lose \u2013 my new life in sobriety with all<br>that it has given me: new interests and peace of<br>mind, new friends and old friends rediscovered, and<br>most of all, my Higher Power. Today I give thanks<br>to God for taking me through moments of great<br>upheaval and pain into a state of peace of mind.<\/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 Managing my internal revolution The storming of the Bastille in Paris on this day in1789 marked the start of a decade of bloodyrevolution which led &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2561\">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":[14,17,20,1],"tags":[11,28,27,30,26,33,23,22,32],"class_list":["post-2561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-addiction-recovery-2","category-behavioural-addiction-2","category-living-skills","category-uncategorized","tag-addiction-recovery","tag-castle-craig","tag-connection","tag-daily-inspiration","tag-daily-reflections","tag-fellowship","tag-meditation","tag-recovery","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","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=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions\/2566"}],"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=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}