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Ahron Wrote: 've had it with falling. I'm serious now. I will not let anything get in my way. Not my yetzer hara, depression or anything else. I have potential for greatness! Hashem has blessed me with more than I could ever desire. He has absolute love for me. I will not...

I have committed myself to being better in regards to P**n and self pleasure. So far I'm 40 days clean. It has to become a mindset. All those things that we saw in the movies and clips are fake. The connection that I feel with my wife and with Hashem is so much better. S...

When your will rises to that supernal level of holiness, it is cleared of all bad traits and all bad actions that exist in the world - even of the most inconsequential matters that most people ignore.One might desire illicit relations more than life itself, because sexual...

This may be something of "heresy" to say on GYE, but mast** for a woman is not that bad. ... But that's not the point... I strive to eradicate p**n and mast** altogether not because of how bad it is, but because I had become a slave to lust - and lust has destroyed everyt...

I read "Garden of Emunah" over Shabbos... it really makes everything so simple. We need to plain-and-simply connect to God. Fulfilling my selfish desires is against Emuna, because it means I feel that "I need to do this now or else I'll be _______". So instead of "let go ...

"NOYA" (a 21 Year Old Bochur) rants on the forum: Okay, I miss the lust. I want to act out. But what will happen then? Once I do it, I'll feel miserable about myself. I'll feel "out of it" for days. I'll feel dejected and I won't be able to concentrate on my davening and ...

The Vilna Goan writes (in Even Sh'laymo) that bitachon (Trust in Hashem) is the opposite of taivah for physical pleasure. Taivos are based on a drive to fill a physical need that we feel we must have ... or we'll die. We must have it NOW. We feel that we must provide ours...

I went out with the family yesterday on a trip, and my shmiras eynayim was greatly tested. I kept my cool though-out, and I practiced closing my eyes on the bus and appreciating my ears. It was actually fun! I heard many more things with my eyes closed, and it gave them a...

"shmiratainayim" wrote on the forum two days ago: Ok, so I accept this addiction as a fact, but it's so hard to fight it. I'm single, in the parsha of Shidduchim, and gifted with the capabilities to create an uprising in the Jewish world (in chinuch, kiruv krovim or kiruv...

I just listened to the new Boruch Levine CD and one of the songs has the coolest message... The song is about a shnorer who decides to become a fake Rebbe so that people will donate to him in return for his giving them a bracha. The plan works out fabulous. He rakes in th...

So CNN did an important news piece yesterday... I think it was part of their business report... very important business news... The story was about an entrepreneur that was expanding his business in the face of the economic difficulties we all face... It was some importan...

"KolelGuy" wrote on the forum: I've been doing really well since my last fall, which just "happened" to be the day before I joined the GYE crew. The main issue for me has always been that I would forget my weakness and get too confident. But since I'm here, I keep myself ...

In the bracha prior to shmona esrei we say every morning: Mimitzraim gualtanu Hashem Elokeinu, mibeis avodim p'disanu, kol bechoreihem haragta, ubechorcha ge'alta, v'yam suf bakatah, v'zeidim tibata, v'didim he'evarta,.... They all are in chronological order. But why is m...

Just finished day 80, and the Big 90 is only 10 days away!! The Yetzer Hara is pulling out the stops now, but I'm gonna stand tall. "Just Say No to Drugs-of-choice"!! I gotta remember it's like an allergy, I can't touch a drop of lust. CNN, outa here - I don't need to see...

We all know the old joke about the guy on the roof that drowned in a flood, and complained in heaven that G-d didn't personally save him when he prayed, and G-d answered - "What do you want from Me? I sent you 2 boats and a helicopter...!" I prayed and prayed for help, fo...

To my fellow yidden, I would like to share with you some of the benefits/rewards that come with being clean in the hope to give you chizuk. This comes from MYSELF, and not 2cd hand evidence: 1 - When you daven, you don't feel like a hypocrite. Davening is SO much more mea...

This is a sickness. Yes, it's a sickness that involves an aveirah, but right now, you're limited in what you can do about that, until you treat the sickness. So your goal (as far as your avodas hashem goes) HAS to be to focus on dealing with the addiction (see the handboo...

Not isolating yourself and becoming a part of a group is the main way to get sober and recover from this addiction. Ideally, that means a live SA or SLAA group in your city. We also have phone groups that meet 3 nights a week for members of the forum. You - and none of us...