I got sick and tired of being sick and tired.

S.A. isn't a religion, we can't open the gates of Heaven and let you in, but we can open the gates of Hell and let you out.

I have 41 days sober today. How do I do it? I pray. I rely on G-d, always realizing that lust is more powerful than me and it is only through His strength that I can stay sober. I go to lots of SA meetings. I have a sponsor who I call almost every day. I call others in th...

The goal of my recovery is not really sobriety, if by "sobriety" we only mean "not drinking/using schmutz/whatever". This is for two reasons. One is that such an attitude is shallow, and the second reason is that such a perspective may not work, even to stop the drinking/...

My best friend became my worst enemy.

Please be patient---God isn't finished with you yet.

A treatment center is where you go and pay $15,000 to find out that S.A. meetings are free.

There is pain in recovery. Misery is optional.

Sorrow shared is halved; joy shared is doubled.

F.A.I.T.H.: Fantastic Adventure in Trusting Him.

Yesterday is a cancelled check, tomorrow is a promissory note, only today is cash in the bank.

My daily sobriety is contingent on my spiritual condition.

Pain is the touchstone of progress.

If you don't want to slip, stay away from slippery places.

We have a living problem, not a lusting problem.

We have a disease that tells us we don't have a disease.

A Talmid of Duvid Chaim's group wrote yesterday to Steve and Duvid Chaim: After being clean for 112 days, I had a fall today. I was white-knuckling to a degree, happy to "make it through" each day. Don't worry, no depression, I've already turned the fall into an aliyah...

If it were only masturbation (including the issur, spiritual/mental/interpersonal damage that it causes and its onesh as I understand them all in my heart) that I considered my big problem, I doubt I'd have ever stopped. I went on with it for years and cried my eyes out, ...