Dallas BraggFormer crystal methamphetamine user, I help men who have sex with men break free from the addictive patterns associated with Chemsex. Currently expanding my expertise by seeking to become a Certified

Story Telling Healing Aftermeth

6 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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In this conversational excerpt, Dallas Bragg and a speaker discuss how clients often omit critical details—such as recurring drug-fueled sexual encounters and boundary violations—when talking to therapists. They explore why individuals repeatedly return to self‑destructive patterns and suggest that therapy can help uncover these hidden motivations. The dialogue emphasizes the power of storytelling techniques to dissect personal narratives, proposing that most life stories contain identifiable beats—Orphan, Wanderer, Warrior, Martyr—and that recognizing these structures can facilitate insight and healing.

They're telling their therapist about their upbringing, their childhood, their partner, their workplace, absolutely everything except the fact that every few weeks they're going and having this drug-fueled sex and their boundaries are not being respected and maybe they're not respecting other people's boundaries and they are ill for a week afterwards. Like, it's quite a lot you're missing out, that you're glossing over.
Yeah. And why you keep going back. Yeah. I mean, the therapist can help you peel that back, right? Why do you keep doing this?
Yeah, absolutely. Analyze it, understand it, understand the story that you're telling. Because again, like, storytelling techniques really help you break down and understand your own life. So in writing these stories, like, I then was able to apply these things. Like, in every story, pretty much every story, if you can find one that doesn't have these beats in it, then, you know, well done. But most stories have a section of it, or these story beats of orphan, wanderer, warrior, martyr.