In this spoken monologue, Dallas Bragg addresses the collective recovery community, urging individuals battling addiction to confront and reveal the hidden ‘shadow’ aspects of themselves that they keep locked away. He argues that secrecy about cravings, thoughts of using, and uncomfortable emotions hinders true sobriety. Bragg emphasizes that radical honesty—speaking openly about one’s feelings, breaking toxic relationships, and stopping harmful habits—is essential for breaking the looping patterns that keep people stuck. He frames sobriety as the unraveling of ego, beliefs, and cyclical cycles, moving from a stagnant loop to a transformative spiral. The message encourages embracing vulnerability, allowing oneself to feel weak, and using expressive outlets (writing, speaking, screaming) to externalize pain. Bragg also invokes the alignment of planetary and lunar energies as a metaphorical cue that the moment is right for this deep, transparent work. The overall aim is to motivate listeners to illuminate their shadows, practice total transparency, and thereby advance their recovery journey.
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Hello, I am going to bring to you a message. Message is for the collective, the collective recovery movement, the collective energy of addiction. Those currently battling it, those currently recovering from it, those currently in any stage of This experience that we call addiction. There's many of you who aren't being honest. They're hiding. They're hiding shadow aspects. There's shadows that we don't know about that we uncover in the recovery process. But then there are shadows that we keep locked away. We hold the key to those doors and we keep those shadow aspects of ourselves in there. It's what we really think. It's what we really feel. It's how we really want to speak. Things that we would never say or admit outwardly. Those secrets hold us back from being completely Admitting that you still, you think about using every day. You miss being an addict. It doesn't feel culturally normal, and it doesn't feel popular, and it doesn't get you accolades, and it doesn't show consecutive sober days in a celebratory way if you say, you know what, I just really want to escape today. Those aspects of truth have to come out. It's going to be painful. It's going to be embarrassing. People are going to look at you differently because humans want you to fit in their box. They want you to be who they need you to be so they aren't triggered. Illuminate these Shadows, these secrets, with the light of your word and your truth, that pain will be rewarded. It's tiring to pretend, to put on this facade around other people in recovery, your family, your friends, your partners, yourself. It's exhausting. This is the time. This is the right energy. It's the right movement of the planets and the stars and the solar system and the moon, and it's all aligned for you right now to open that door, turn on the light, and be honest. Admit, say what you've been dying to say. Do what you've been dying to do. Break off that relationship. Stop going where you won't don't want to go. What we call sober and sobriety is simply unraveling the ego, unraveling beliefs, patterns, and cycles. You have gone to a point in the cycle. Where you're looping. You're not going up a spiral anymore. You're looping. What will release that is complete and total transparency about where you are right now. How are you feeling right now? If you have to write it, if you have to say it in the mirror, if you have to scream it into the wind, get it out. Of your body and begin slowly talking about it, being comfortable with it, being okay with feeling that way. Be okay with being weak. It's the only way you're going to move forward. And that's that. I hope that helps someone out there. I know it helped me.
