So the update.
I started DRst1 in March this year and have done it fairly consistently except for a week here or there. Each break I’ve felt bad for breaking discipline but afterwards I’ve always figured that I needed it. In the end it worked amazingly, and I have to say that the improvements although subtle at the time, have been profound in the end.
I’ve done several other things as well during this time in order to heal. One was to deliberately take a good look at my shadow and my own toxic behaviors. I’ve had a victim mentality for years, but I never expected it to have so many layers… Once I thought that I had gotten over that mentality, another layer reared it’s ugly head. It’s all good though, cause it gave me the opportunity for that deep cleansing. Dragon Fire, oh yes!
I also started to heal and recover my masculinity, self worth and personal power in a positive way. I never could figure out why I never could get what I wanted, or get my life together. It’s always been such a mess, and failure after failure! Turns out I’ve suffered from the chronic illness called Niceguyitus. Yeah… it’s not nice at all. I’m currently reading No More Mr. Nice Guy by Robert A. Glover and oh damn, now I get it. “Nice guys” self sacrifice in order to please others, so much so that they loose all sense of worth and personal power… and this behavior also puts others off (what partner wants a pleaser without substance or internal power or integrity?), as well as makes the nice guy resentful for not having his needs met. He’s such a nice self-sacrificing guy, after all. No?
This behavior according to Robert comes from having experienced abandonment (real or by the child imagined) in some form in childhood, and no way to integrate or overcome it properly (ie from healthy parenting). So we self -sacirfice in order to please others so that we won’t be abandoned… “again”. The mental mechanisms of a child trying to survive, still in action in the adult.
It’s also passed down from fathers to sons, who were also ‘nice guys’. It’s so glaringly clear to me now… But now I can continue to heal that, and do it properly. Another insight from the book was that as children we are inherently naive and ego-centered (it’s a survival thing). But that also means that everything that goes wrong in the family, the child internally takes the blame for. After all, it’s all about him, right? And if he in his mind is so bad because he is the “reason” for whatever trauma or disturbances occurring, why would anyone want him? Cue the subconscious abandonment issues… Not to mention attachment styles, oh god…
Niceguyitus is the reason why I never succeeded in anything, and tried to please everyone. And never got anything. And being dishonest and resentful for others not satisfying “my needs” in return. So much so that I had no personal power left at all. No wonder I’ve felt like a looser all my life. I’ve always been one. 
So now… I finally know what was wrong, and how to fix it. Indeed, it has only been a few days since this realization, but boy do I feel better about myself now than ever before. I feel like a whole person, for once!
I also started to tell myself that I do indeed deserve to feel good about myself, and my life… This has also prompted me to make better decisions for myself. It’s easier to eat better, and it’s easier to get out and exercise. I believe my resistance to those things before were rooted in a subconscious belief that I didn’t deserve to feel good, and thus sabotaged for myself to keep it tat way. Also in conjunction with a chronic victim mentality, vehemently refusing responsibility for myself or anything, overlapping with the niceguyitus.
All in all, having “Crushed all my deepest fears, emotions, traumas, beliefs and energies” - I now feel ready to proceed to Dragon Reborn Stage 2. I’m starting with it a bit carefully today as I understand that it can be quite heavy, but will keep at it for at least a month. We’ll see how much time it’ll take - I’m in no hurry… I’ll start out with a stack of just DRst2, but will add RICH and ascended mogul for healing my relationship to money - for now. RM is next on my to-buy-list 
I’ll keep writing in this journal for the entire DR multistage, to keep it all in one place. @RVconsultant is there a way to change the title of the thread? Just removing Wyrmling and the last part? 
Without the healing fires of Dragon Reborn, I’m not sure I would have grown this much in such a short period of time… and I’m eager to see what the Dragon Blood will bring out. I’m ready.
/Athax