{"id":2580,"date":"2025-07-19T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2025-07-18T08:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:23:50","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-july-19th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2580","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days July 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-0f70e924b634251cfc899c396e8d8859\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 relax your whole body gradually<\/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-f48d1c51267945e561cea9a0d14e299b\"><strong><br>Power of addiction<\/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-bf18371c0fa566e7aa366a6334a9f71a\"><strong><br>Chronicles relate that in 1066 the English passed the<br>night before the battle of Hastings in drinking. The<br>Normans spent the time confessing their sins. The<br>English had a reputation as heavy drinkers even<br>then, although drunkenness was considered a double<br>sin under the two headings of gluttony and self-destruction<br>(thou shalt not kill). Seeing alcohol<br>abuse as a slow form of suicide has not deterred<br>many drinkers. Intellectual arguments are seldom a<br>deterrent. It is only when the pain of addiction<br>becomes greater than the pain of stopping that we<br>seek help. Do I recognise the power of addiction?<\/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-ff3121aa060a48305b46a1439ec59a68\"><strong>Sometimes it all seems too much. We try everything<br>we can think of to stop our addictive behaviour, and<br>we still fail, but we keep on trying. We will succeed<br>eventually. With our Higher Power, we will prevail<br>because we now have something greater than<br>addiction. We have discovered that there are better<br>choices than addiction \u2013 ones with more power to<br>help us. I ask today that I will never give in to the<br>power of addiction.<\/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 relax your whole body gradually Power of addiction Chronicles relate that in 1066 the English passed thenight before the battle of Hastings in drinking. TheNormans spent the time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2580\">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":[11,28,27,30,33,23,32],"class_list":["post-2580","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-castle-craig","tag-connection","tag-daily-inspiration","tag-fellowship","tag-meditation","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","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=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/2581"}],"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=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}