Dallas Bragg, a recovery coach, stood on the sidewalk watching the sheriff remove his belongings from his evicted home. He couldn't comprehend it happening, not from drugs but from denial, a nervous-system filter that softens overwhelming truth so you can keep functioning. Without removing it consciously, denial leads to rock bottom.
I was being evicted from my own home, and I could not comprehend what was happening. I stood on that sidewalk staring at my house in complete confusion. Hi, my name is Dallas, and I'm a chemsex recovery coach helping men who have sex with men. I couldn't comprehend the eviction, not because I was high in that moment, but because my brain refused to assemble the evidence into a picture it could recognize. The notices came, the court date passed, The sheriff arrived, and I stood on the curb with my belongings on the sidewalk, feeling something close to confusion. It's like I had wandered into someone else's life by accident. That is what denial looks like from the inside. Not a story that you're telling yourself. The absence of a story. Denial is not stupidity. It is not selfishness. It is your nervous system making a calculation that the The full weight of the truth would destroy you. So it filters, it softens, it lets you keep functioning while it buys you time. The problem is the filter never turns off on its own. It has to be removed. And unless you do that work to remove that filter, something else will do it for you, like a rock bottom. If you are stuck in denial and you would like to move forward before the rock bottom hits, Comment the word group below and we'll get you some information about our new group coaching program.
