Dallas Bragg argues that addiction recovery gets stuck in shame even during abstinence. The shift happens when you stop viewing recovery practices as obligation and start doing them from inspiration. He says all words and experiences are neutral until you assign them meaning through your consciousness.
You are stuck in a shame loop, and even when you are abstaining from Tina, you are still miserable, aren't you? If you want to get out of that loop, understand this one thing: every single experience and every single word is neutral, even the word relapse or addiction. Then we as humans, with our free will, get to choose the meaning. Everything is controlled by the consciousness by which we do it with. For instance, The sentence, why do I keep going back to Tina, can be said with the consciousness of curiosity to grow or condemnation to keep you stagnant. Even down to your recovery techniques, if you are doing the 12 steps out of obligation, that is totally different than working the 12 steps out of inspiration to abstain. I want to invite you to begin taking notice of the energy, the consciousness behind everything you say and do. Are you coming from a place of empowerment or defeat, curiosity or condemnation, obligation or inspiration? Shift and see meth be a thing of your past.
