{"id":895,"date":"2024-04-28T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=895"},"modified":"2024-04-27T20:46:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T19:46:14","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-april-28th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=895","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days April 28th by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-8af3197cab742cd6115e0eaf225b2698\"><strong>View VIDEO on Facebook  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094027278120\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094027278120<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-289b2fc666045648611131bbd291ef67\"><strong>Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=p<\/a><\/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-782daad068584b6798565af9d6154218\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 review expectations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1e653a76e061d0921e1a3f79b730a208\">Denial<\/h4>\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-7177da71818470a7e49f336547f9bcf6\"><strong>When you decide to quit addictive behaviour and face up to reality, you are essentially casting off your denial \u2013 the twisted mental process that allowed you to continue your addiction for so long although you knew it was wrong. Sobering up means accepting three essential truths:<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-block-list wp-elements-b4b8a191c53e6347c4d973d942f16139\">\n<li><strong>This is what your behaviour was like<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>This is how it makes others think about you<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>This is how it makes you feel about yourself.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-92776e15a53e62d3c16e0070478fe768\"><strong>Facing reality can be painful \u2013 nobody likes hearing other people\u2019s criticism, however justified. The thing that gives us encouragement is that we have a plan for putting things right \u2013 the Twelve Step programme. With this plan and the help of our Higher Power, reality does not seem so painful.<\/strong><strong><\/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-135b0a8a50679f628e628b69e1c697e5\"><strong>The<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>moment<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>we<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>decide<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>to<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>sober<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>up<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>is<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>a<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>hugely<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>important<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>milestone.<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>The road ahead may be arduous, but we have a roadmap and a guide. All that is left to do is to make the first move. Today <\/strong><strong>I<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>thank<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>God<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>for<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>giving me<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>the necessities<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>for my<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>recovery<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>journey.<\/strong><strong><\/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-ccd416b0d52eea6f517c178e5d02aba8\"><strong><em>Today I Will<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View VIDEO on Facebook https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094027278120 Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=p Remember Mindfulness \u2013 review expectations Denial When you decide to quit addictive behaviour and face up to reality, you are essentially casting off your denial \u2013 the twisted mental process &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=895\">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":[11,28,30,26,23,22],"class_list":["post-895","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-daily-inspiration","tag-daily-reflections","tag-meditation","tag-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","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=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/897"}],"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=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}