Dallas Bragg gives six strategies for staying meth-free while traveling solo. Block chemsex apps, set up accountability check-ins before and during the trip, write your recovery mantra and post it in the hotel room, arrange a ride from the airport, and tell your recovery team where you're going.
Whether you're newly in recovery or you've been there for a long time, traveling, especially when you're traveling by yourself and when you're going to be in a hotel room, is one of the, if not the biggest triggers for chemsex use that there is. So let's go through 6 tips here for being meth-free through the holiday travel. Number 1, make it known. Here is, here's what you do. You make sure everyone in your team Your recovery team, your friends, and your family. Everyone knows that this is a trigger for me. When I travel on holiday, I usually use— because sometimes they don't know. You have to educate people around you about what chemsex is like. Make it known. Tell on yourself. I need help. Okay, number 2. Accountability. This is where you're going to set up accountability check-ins. Specific times with specific people before, during, and after, especially in the danger zones during your trip when you would've normally used. You wanna interrupt those times with a check-in. Those check-ins, you need to be specific. They could be text, they could be phone call, they could be voice memos, but they need to be specific. You call me at this time. And what questions should these people be asking you to get you to be as transparent as possible? All right. Next is a mantra or vision. Write down a vision for yourself. Write down a mantra for yourself. Something that really evokes emotion for you. Write that down on a piece of paper. When you get to the hotel room, tape it down beside your bed, tape it on your bathroom mirror, tape it everywhere you can so that you aren't forgetting. You won't, you won't snap into that autopilot because you know what your vision is and who you are. Next, blocks on the phone. Obviously, you're going to have to block your phone so you don't have access to Grindr, Sniffies, RentMen, any other site that gets you in trouble. You want to make sure that you have not even an option to go there. Next, visualization. Before you get there on the trip, when you're on the plane ride over, visualize yourself being meth-free. What does it feel like? Waking up the next morning knowing you didn't use, finishing your holiday knowing you didn't use. Let that gratitude be in your body and begin to visualize yourself doing it. That will give your body a Plan B and a new way of, of living a holiday. All right, and next, airport transport. That's a lot of my guys will be planning the Chemsex use on the plane before it even lands, Before it even stops, they are already planning and they're going to get in the Uber and they go to the, they go to the dealer's house. Get somebody to pick you up and take you home, escort you. Sometimes that's what it takes. All right. What did I miss? Tell me in the comments.
