{"id":2569,"date":"2025-07-16T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2025-07-15T06:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T05:25:50","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-july-16th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2569","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days July 16th 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-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 sit comfortably<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>Spiritual Growth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>People will surprise you if you give them a chance.<br>Some people have the courage to change, and some<br>do not. Perhaps the best surprise is the moment you<br>suddenly recognise your own worth, with all your<br>strengths and weaknesses. Courage to change can<br>seem an impossible goal but when the pain of not<br>changing is intense, we find it easier to do. If we<br>don\u2019t change, we probably don\u2019t grow, and our goal<br>is spiritual growth. Will I pursue the goal of spiritual<br>growth, through change?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>When I plan ahead carefully for the future, I may be<br>setting myself up for a lot of anxiety and<br>disappointment. Life seldom goes according to<br>plan. If my own planning is too rigid, I will find<br>myself distressed when things go wrong. Better to<br>be flexible and to regard life\u2019s surprises as stimuli<br>that serve to keep me on my toes. A positive attitude<br>that welcomes new challenges means that I am<br>more likely to produce a good response.<\/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 sit comfortably Spiritual Growth People will surprise you if you give them a chance.Some people have the courage to change, and somedo not. Perhaps the best surprise is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2569\">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":[11,15,28,27,30,26,33,23,32],"class_list":["post-2569","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","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","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=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2571"}],"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=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}