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Get Free Through Surrender

By GYE Corp.
'Hanging on' just for today while doing nothing to learn tools to get free of lust is nothing but a bastardization and poor usage of the old adage, 'One Day at a Time". Spare me of that fate, please. I want to surrender lust one day at a time, not hold my breath and pret...
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A 'G-d Help' Program

By GYE Corp.
I think we desperately need to quit our preoccupation with lust and thinking about our 'addiction patterns' and stop seeing our 'triggers' everywhere. When we use the steps, we are not trying to 'kill our addiction with analysis', but rather to get ourselves and our over...
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Sometimes Low Self-Esteem Comes From Pride

By GYE Corp.
I believe that one of the main reasons that I was always hurting so much inside and felt so down on myself, was that in the things that really mattered, I honestly and innocently expected unrealistic things for myself. It was torture. I felt it was a great injustice that ...
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Reversed Order

By GYE Corp.
I have not found it to be true that one must first love themselves before they will be able to love others, as I have heard many people say. Nor do I buy that a healthy self-esteem is needed at all, in order for anyone to recover. Nor do I believe that I needed to feel fo...
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Turning Our Back on Our Old Selves

By GYE Corp.
The steps (besides the first one) as I was taught them and use them, have little to do with getting me sober. That is what my first step is about, and why it is the only step that even mentions our addiction. The 3rd step and on are about keeping me sober. I must use t...
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To the Point of Survival

By GYE Corp.
Hashem does not tell me anywhere in the Torah not to be an addict! Yes, He does tell me not to look at shmutz, mz"l, stare at women, etc. But my addiction is not the aveiro itself. My addiction - the only thing I actually need to be free of today - is the predictable at...
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R' Shimon Bar Yochai Didn't Bring Along a Sandwich

By GYE Corp.
Someone wrote to Dov: So let me see if I get this right: Step 1: Admit that my addiction of obsession with lust is making my life impossible. Step 2: I am not successful at managing or curing this addiction. But God can manage it for me. I need to turn to Him Step 3...
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Addict vs. Non-Addict

By GYE Corp.
I completely reject the idea that any yid who uses shmutz (fantasy) and hz"l once in a while is "an addict". As far as I am concerned, that is ridiculous. The badness of the aveira does not convert in into an addiction - at least per the 1st of the 12 steps that I know of...
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The Day AFTER the Seder Night

By GYE Corp.
I believe that Hashem heals us only oneday at a time. Not for a week, a month, a year, and certainly not for a lifetime. I believe that for an addict, the "teshuvah gemurah" fantasy (as Chazal say for normal people: "he is omeid in one big nisayon so that Hashem is mey'id...
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I Refuse to be Relegated to the Trash Heap

By GYE Corp.
So, what is your plan, actually? Do you have any actual action-tools (things to do) that you didn't have for the past few years? If so, great. When they work, iy"H, share them with us. But if you are essentially trying basically the same thing and expecting a totally diff...
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Turning the Ship Around

By GYE Corp.
The 3rd step is about switching to a new attitude that is something like this: "since G-d is... well, G-d, then He must know better than me. He can give me anything. And He could not possibly have anything against me, for He needs nothing - He doesn't even need me to list...
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Breathing Air Is Not "Al Pi Torah"

By GYE Corp.
The 12 steps IS THE TORAH APPROACH. What you are doing IS NOT THE TORAH APPROACH because it is making you act out! No one looks at shmutz and is mz"l and just whines about it like a little girl for years "al pi Toirah". That is idiotic. For the past 15-20 years you admit ...
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The Makka is the Refuah

By GYE Corp.
Someone asked on the forum: I was wondering about why we have these periods of cleanliness, and then BAM fall into extreme desire? Further, they seem to follow patterns; 30 days seems to be a rough point, as an example. These periods of really bad desire can last an hour,...
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There's Only One Day Of Recovery

By GYE Corp.
"It starts with one... and it ends with one." Meaning: There really is only one day of recovery - ever. And that's 'today'. This is, I believe, why Teshuvah is one of the things sometimes code-named "Atah" - Today. (V'ata Yisrael, Ma hashem Elokecha Sho'el Me'Imach). It'...
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We Need to Make it Real

By GYE Corp.
The thing all the 12-step-recovering addicts in the world are making such a big deal about, is different than all the steps we thought we had taken in the past that "look like" the 12-Step program. It is different because it is different! All those times we have done the...
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Letting the Familiar Curiosity Go

By GYE Corp.
People in recovery often emphasize "living in the solution, not in the problem". It's hard to understand, at first. "whadaya mean, I'm living in the problem?" When we delve and delve and delve... it wraps us up in the problem and soon we will act out. Cuz we are sick and ...
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Don't Put the Cart Before the Horse

By GYE Corp.
I pity the person who starts off his recovery by focusing on fixing the human wreckage his behavior caused. In my case that'd truly be putting the cart before the horse, and in the worst way. It would retard my entire - and I mean entire - recovery and leave me:1- still r...
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If It's Impossible, There Might Be Hope

By GYE Corp.
Dear friend, Do you think you are an addict? In other words, are you beaten? I am. I'm an addict who is sober today for a bunch of years and there are many others like me (even many frum ones) who will gladly meet with you on the phone, or preferably in person, to freely...
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My 'Life' Forbids Me to Act Out

By GYE Corp.
Eye.nonymous Writes: I relate a lot to the concept of R.I.D (Restlessness, Irritability and Discontent) - which is exacerbated by our character defects - as being a big cause of our lust urges. It's sometimes reassuring to know "I'm tired," or "I'm off schedule," and TH...
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Don't Give Power to Flesh & Blood

By GYE Corp.
Someone wrote: I can get triggered by the SLIGHTEST touch of a woman! Getting touched by the cashier handing me change has triggered me. Even getting touched by a woman nurse taking my blood has triggered me! Dov Replies: I am not recommending any specific course of a...
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