Dallas Bragg quit injecting crystal meth by changing how he talked to himself. Instead of "I am a procrastinator," he started saying "parts of me want to procrastinate." That small shift in language helped him separate his identity from the behavior and break the mental patterns keeping him stuck.
If you feel like your life is stuck in a loop, I want you to listen to this. I was able to stop injecting crystal meth every single day, and that wasn't even the hard part. The most difficult part of my life has been unraveling the patterns and the cycles, the beliefs, the words, the actions that led to using crystal meth on a daily basis. And where I began With simple language. Taking away the words I am from my daily conversation. I am a procrastinator. I am stuck. Those words have to be neutralized and replace them with parts of me. Parts of me are stuck in a pattern. Parts of me want to procrastinate. Parts of me are attracted to that same person over and over and over. Parts of me feel hopeless. This is the beginning of detaching yourself from the beliefs
