Dallas Bragg argues that strict discipline backfires in addiction recovery. When people miss their checklist, they spiral into shame and relapse. He proposes devotion to your highest self instead, which builds self-compassion and keeps you grounded even when you slip.
So this is how you're looking at recovery wrong. You think it takes discipline to be successful at quitting crystal meth. You think that you have to check every box every day. I've journaled, I've sent my gratitudes, I've meditated, I've cold plunged, I've saunaed, I've gymmed. And when you miss a box, you either punish yourself, give up, or you just go back to using because you're a failure anyway, right? I want you to take the word discipline out of your vocabulary and replace it with the word devotion. When you are devoted to your best and highest self and best and highest life, then you see past the checkboxes and into your heart. You know your intentions and you show yourself compassion and love. You see the bigger vision and you're devoted to that person regardless of what you did or didn't do today.
