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We received an e-mail this morning from someone, full of pain and disillusionment. He claims that he felt uninspired by the 'once-in-28-years' Birchas Hachama this morning and he doesn't feel inspired from Pesach either. He hates learning Gemara and he feels that in gener...

I have recently joined this forum. Writing this brings tears to my eyes, because I have never been able to ask for help in this area before. This is the start of breaking an 11 year habit, something that makes me both proud and humble, as well as very, very ashamed. I've ...

The destruction and renewal that the month of AV represents is the 'Alef - Beis' of our journey on this world. Maybe that is why it is spelled 'Alef- Beis.'

I've been slipping a lot lately, doing things and going places I know shouldn't. It's so hard to fight this addiction. I feel a desperate need inside me for a loving and intimate relationship. I wanted to know what you think about marriage. It's been on my mind lately, I ...

IN THIS WEEKS PARSHA WE FIND THE MOST MOST MOST (THAT'S A LOT OF MOST) FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION IN THE TORAH:"WHAT DOES G-D WANT FROM ME???"V'ATAH YISROEL MAH HASHEM ELOKECHA SH-EL MEI-IMCHA??I WILL STOP AT THE FIRST WORD: "VE'ATA""VE'ATA" IS LASHON OF TESHUVAH "VE'ATA" MEAN...

If Hashem keeps giving you the same test and you don't like it, pass the test so you can graduate on to the next test!

Sixty-five years ago, in high-school, I learned a powerful mussar lesson, but I did not realize it at the time. Ulysses was a hero and traveler in Greek mythology. He heard of the "music of the sirens." This was music that was heard at a particular harbor, and it was so ...

The successful man and his unsuccessful friend both fell the same amount of times; but the successful man got up just one time more than his friend.

I was studying this week's Parsha, searching for meaning in my life and struggles as I often do, when I came across a most unusual pasuk. Moshe is speaking to Klal Yisrael telling them not be afraid of entering the land and that their enemies will fall easily under their ...

"Ykv_schwartz" (not his real name on Earth, but probably the name he will be greeted with after 120!) started his journey to sobriety (with us) on Feb. 5, at the Levaya of Rav Noach Weinberg z"l. He reached 90 days and joined the "Wall of Hashem's Honor" during the Seffir...

People who have special neshamos CONNECT to GuardYourEyes, almost like a magnet. It's like a breath of fresh air, of reality, of purpose. When I first found GYE, WOW was I on a high. For 2 months I could not stop smiling around the house. My wife was concerned I was on drugs or seeing a psychiatrist and not telling her. Really. It's just the total Ahavas Yisroel and idealism here, and to boot, a solution to my nagging clinging Yetzer Hara who I've never been able to shake off for too long.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

If you're feeling down, vulnerable, weak or depressed, it's easy to begin to feel that this journey to sobriety is just "not worth it"... But perhaps a "paradigm shift" in attitude can change everything. What's a "paradigm shift"? Stephen Covey (author of the best-selling...

Reading "divrei chizuk" (from R' Tzvi Meyer) on the topics of Tisha b'Av on Tisha b'Av afternoon is fantastic. (Almost any busywork is better for me - a touchy recovering addict - than focusing on feeling yucky!) There are other people on this forum who have regular and d...

Not long ago, an amazing warrior joined our ranks. At first, he called himself "Jerusalem addict", but as he got more comfortable in the amazing community on the forum, he started to call himself "Uri". Today everyone on the forum knows and LOVES Uri. He has been fighting...

Chevra, as I approach the end of day 14 Iy"h, I look back at the last 2 weeks and smile. Ok, now I am crying (slightly embarrassing, as my little sister is standing near me watching me). I am starting to breathe fresh air again. My emotions aren't all soiled. I'm starting...

Call out in truth and you will be answered in truth

After 70 years, the book Alcoholics Anonymous (referred to as the Big Book) is still the best and only source for step by step instruction on the practical program of action that leads to recovery from addiction. The first 164 pages of the book (the pages that describe th...