Dallas Bragg explains how a single 30-second negative comment in childhood can imprint a limiting belief that predisposes someone to addiction. A parent calling you "trouble" or "dummy" sticks because the young brain is elastic. Inner-child work and belief-rewriting can overwrite these wounds and break addictive patterns.
30 seconds. That is all the time it takes to create an imprinted belief on your brain at an early age that can control the rest of your life, including predisposing you to be an addict. What a dummy. You are so much trouble. Why can't you control yourself? Why can't you be like the other kids? Are you sure you want to wear that? Are you sure you want to eat that? I'm finding in my work with addicts in recovery that many of these wounds Happened in a 30-second window of their life. One flippant comment from a parent or a loved one, and because the brain is so elastic at an early age, it sticks and becomes a belief about yourself that led you down a path toward addiction. Practicing inner child work in addiction recovery will point you in the direction of healing and enable you to overwrite this belief with a healthy, new, positive belief, which creates a healthy, new course for your life. There are many of us in addiction recovery who have
