Dallas Bragg quit crystal meth to avoid prison, which was the easy part. The hard part took five years: dismantling the beliefs and thought patterns that had shaped his life. Stopping the drug was one decision. Rewiring his mind was the real work.
Quitting crystal meth for me was a habitual pattern that I had to break, but I'm here to tell you that it was easy to stop using meth compared to the process of changing the beliefs and the imprints and the cycles that had been carved into my young vinyl record brain. I received many, many, many accolades for being able to stop the daily injection of crystal meth, but the truth is I had to make that decision or go to prison. If only we were all faced with such leveraged decisions like that when it came— comes to daily changes and daily thought processes, right? The hard work for me began after the substance was removed. I was left to unravel the patterns that drove my life to addiction in the first place. It has been a 5-year journey of peeling back decades of habitual thinking And I felt overwhelmed and I felt discouraged for a very long time.
