Bro just run DR.
You’ll do great.
Your preparation before a full cycle of DR should just be small amounts of exposure to DR.
You can start really slow and run one 3 minute loop of DR, then wait 2 weeks and see how you feel, if you’re really hesitant.
If DR can give you a mental breakdown, so can 6 cores + GLM. There’s definitely less risk with running small amounts of DR until you get a baseline of how you react to it.
Start with a 3 min loop of DR once a week, and see how you feel, and if you don’t get any crazy recon, you can increase it until you find a level that’s tolerable for you, and you might even find out that you were afraid of DR for no reason and it’s not all that bad for you.
Your year of prep could be a year of DR. One 3 minute loop per week. One stage every 3 months. Finish all 4 stages by end of 2023, then do a proper cycle in 2024. Or you’ll quickly realize you can go faster than that. Win win either way.
I think where people run into issues with DR is they run too much, too fast, they run the full loop every second day no matter what instead of running a reduced exposure and/or intuition listening schedule, and they think that DR will fix everything in their life overnight, so, they’re stuck in a constant loop of recon thinking that there’s salvation on the other side of that recon.
Just go slow, love your life with or without DR, expose yourself to loops here and there, so that when you finally commit to full cycles of DR, it’ll be a sub you’re familiar with and your brain is ok with.
If you’re wiling to invest a full year, and willing to go through the recon, it’s a no brainer.