Dear chaver, You wrote to GYE in response to a share I wrote that GYE posted in their chizuk email: OK, Dov, very inspiring insight. What would someone like me, who found out about GYE at 51 years old and can recall being attracted to women from age three, when would I s...

No person in the world is as dirt-poor as the luster. - Dov

These 4 parshiyos resemble our journey in recovery. First comes Shkalim, which means we have to weigh our actions, put them in balance - the inventory. After that comes Zachor: we find the bad that has to be eliminated and we do so just like with Amalek. After we got ri...

A man from a city in southern Eretz Yisroel had a daughter critically ill in the hospital. The doctors had all but given up on her. They advised that they will make the last-ditch attempt with a dangerous chemo - but the hospital was out of it. The father was sent to a p...

"The answer lies in what I learned from GYE: If you go out into the street expecting to somehow avoid gazing at forbidden things, you have lost the battle before you start. You have to train yourself in your own home to keep your focus within 4 amos of where you are walki...

HOPE stands for: Hold On, Pain Ends

In the beginning of "Machshivos charutz," R' Tzadok Hacohen of Lublin explains the deepest secrets of milchemes hayetzer. He explains that there are two "drachim" in milchemes hayetzer that are both legitimate but only when used together. IE: Although some people have mor...

Guard Your Eyes has given me the tools to make through thick & thin: I am getting divorced after just a short while married, and being strong in these areas has given me my only anchor to be happy again. I am over 125 days clean and it’s a big thank you to the GYE support group. I have reached goals and levels I never knew I had inside me; however, Guard Your Eyes has brought it out in me!

 “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” — Wayne Dyer

“You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.” — Jerry Garcia

“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” — Lao Tzu

 “There are two types of pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.” — Jim Rohn

 “If you only pray when you’re in trouble, you’re in trouble.”

I don't usually write but today I must because I feel a huge surge of gratitude for the weekly chizuk you send through the Breaking Free emails. Especially, the article by Dov "R' SHIMON BAR YOCHAI DIDN'T BRING ALONG A SANDWICH" because it is the first time I finally und...

*I was getting my teeth cleaned today - by a female hygienist who had to reach over me a couple times. והמבין יבין. I tried so hard to control my thoughts and think of Hashem's love in giving me this test. And, you know what she said to me? "Wow! You're a great patient! N...

My sponsor told me that I should be a grateful alcoholic and always have “an attitude of gratitude”—that gratitude was the basic ingredient of humility, that humility was the basic ingredient of anonymity and that “anonymity was the spiritual foundation of all our Traditi...

“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

A Practice For When You Find Yourself Annoyed by Other People By Leo Babauta It’s a common thing to be frequently annoyed by other people — added to our regular interactions with family, friends and coworkers are the online habits of people on various social media, and t...