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Someone asked Dov: If our addiction is a result of a void we feel, then theoretically, someone who has filled the void should not at all be affected by triggers, right? So why is this a daily struggle still, even for those in recovery? Why does it seem that even you, Dov,...

We might have a tendency to think that after Rosh Hashana and Yom-Kippur when we worked so hard and achieved spiritual heights, the Yetzer Hara won't bother us for a while. But it is exactly the other way around. Precisely when there is so much spirituality and closeness ...

I decided to start my Motzei Yom Kippur off on the right foot, so I was listening to a shiur by Rav Fishel Schachter last night. He told a story that will make any person who is in SA, or should be in SA, truly understand the meaning of "Just for today I'll stay clean, I ...

We all know the truth. We all die. We are nothing but flesh, blood, veins and bones; here today, dust tomorrow. Our eyeballs are delicate balls of mushy fluid. And the objects of our desires are also flesh, blood and veins. If we could see what is underneath the thin laye...

On Erev Yom Kippur last year, "Trying" posted: This is very hard for me to say, since I'm dead embarrassed. But secrecy keeps strengthening the addiction, so here goes. I fell again recently. I don't know how I'll even go to shul. I just want everyone to know how pathetic...

GYE has helped me so much with the great site and the wonderful network of people who are sincere in their desire to help and encourage. It has given me hope, courage, guidance and a sense of community. You have enabled me to refocus on yiddishkeit as a relationship with ...

A year on GYE... How my life has changed... GYE gave me life, gave me happiness, gave me purity... From the last year, I gained relationships that are honest with real people - my spouse, my parents, and mostly myself. I learned: How to look within, be honest and grow. T...

It is an incredible website. I am still under shock and surprise of the unbelievable treasure Hashem has guided me to.

I just wanted to express my deep hakoras hatov to you for this amazing, wonderful, life saving, (enter one billion more  fantastic adjectives here) site. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Thanks a lot for everything you do for klal yisroel. You helped me understand what I'm up against, and as a result I joined a 12 step SA group. I cannot thank enough for the change you caused in my life. Lots of hatzlacha in your lofty work.

Hashem blesses you with this work. This site has changed my life, inside out. I'm more quiet and more careful.  Thank you.

The amount of talent and wisdom in the posts on the forum is staggering. I feel as though I have a team of highly qualified therapists.  For too long I have been looking to Rabbonim and people that do not know me, the real me, to help get me out of this problem.

Thanks for really changing my life, I can feel my neshoma again and can literally see blessing flowing back into my life. May Hashem continue to bless you and GYE and may this year bring much success to the website and holiness back into the world!

To someone who writes that he finds it much easier to stay clean when feeling close to Hashem, Dov writes: If feeling on a spiritual high is something you are dependent on, then I fear that when trials and tribulations come - and since the cheit of Adam Harishon and Cha...

R. Feigenbaum spoke once on the phone conference. At the heart of the discussion was basically the question: How can I, with all of my aveiros, ever expect to get close to Hashem? Who am I fooling? I've stood before the King before and pledged my desire to leave behind ...

Yesterday at work, I was reading the GYE forum when my boss walked past my office, so I quickly tried to minimize the screen. Unfortunately, the computer froze and was taking its sweet time trying to close. Meanwhile the Boss came to my screen and wanted to check out what...

I am a yungerman, who after spending many years in kollel, is today in the working world. I tried to the best of my ability to ensure that the transition to the work-world would not compromise the standard of Yiddishkiet I had lead when I was in kollel, and for a long tim...

Someone wrote to Dov: Steve said something yesterday on the morning call that really hit home with me. He said that when we get triggered, at that moment we need to say to ourselves, "OK, G-d, You've got my attention! Where are we going with this? What message do you ...