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One year for me. I hesitated to post this for I firmly believe that ONLY the Almighty in His infinite kindness protected me every day and every second of the day, and no kudos are due to me nor are any bravos in order - rather a seudas hodah shall I make. The only reason...

Two days ago, after a night spent feeding my sickness, I stumbled across an ad for this site and suddenly my eyes began to open. There was hope and a way to deal with this. I told myself that Hashem sent me here for a reason, and that reason is to get better. I realized t...

90 days. I'm not really sure what the appropriate thing to say or do right now is. I'm sitting here on my couch with real tears rolling down my cheeks; tears of truth, tears of accomplishment, tears of pride, and tears of immense gratitude to Hashem and to all my "family"...

Thank you HaShem for bringing me to GYE, and thank you Guard for being a true Shaliach. Here are my thoughts at 90 days. As R' Twerski put it in his beautiful article on Pesach, when one is freed spiritually, he is thankful for every second of his freedom. GYE has made me...

I would like to thank you for your great work, ever since I found it I'm a different person. I haven't looked at shmutz since, and have guarded my eyes on the street extremely well also. KEEP IT UP!

Hi. I am an addiction counselor in Yerushalayim. I would like to receive from you several GYE handbooks if that is possible, to give to my clients. Many of them do not have access to the internet or a computer, and so the PDF cannot help them. Is this possible? Your website has good acclaim. For one, I know that Dr. Hillel Davis of Emek Refaim told me that every one of his clients who used this site has benefited from it tremendously

Dear the webmaster. No words can express the great mitzvah that you have, by saving me and thousands from one of the worst sins in the Torah. You really changed me and I will always remember it, your zechus is great, it states in sefurim that someone who prevents himself from hz"l or from asur relations the mitzva is massive, so imagine how many mitzvahs you have. Once again thank you so much for Bringing the geula closer.

My eternal thanks to you for the help you have afforded me in my quest to be a real yid. I have struggled with this for as long as I can remember and to have a tool available 24/7 on the very medium by which one can fall so hard is invaluable. Yasher Kochachem!

Sometime during my first desperate week trying to stay clean, Hashem led me to GYE. It was like being transported to a new planet. Suddenly I was not alone anymore, there were so many others who were struggling with similar issues AND SUCCEEDING. I spent hours reading the handbook and browsing the forums, and got tremendous chizuk from it!

See Jack's 90-day journey time-line from 3 years ago here. Dear Guard, I'm approaching my 3-year anniversary in 'the struggle'. I can't say I'm perfect, and I've slipped along the way, but only about 5 times in the whole 3 years. What a difference from before I started,...

I was talking to someone recently, and he asked me if I'd really be so bad off if I wasn't involved with GYE and the 12-steps. It's hard to believe that we'd all end up in the gutters so soon that we need to worry about it. I thought that if, instead of the gradual impro...

I wanted to let you know how much I enjoy the shmiras einiyim conference given at 8:30 evening. The Maggid Shiur is an extraordinary dynamic personality. And the subjects mentioned are very much insightful, from a broad range of sources; Chazal, Rishonim, Mussar and Chass...

t's the beginning of June. There are billions of women in the Northern Hemisphere who are putting on their revealing summer clothes for the next few months. This happened last year too. But there are hundreds of Jewish men who are going to guard their eyes much better t...

Dear Guard, I just want to let you know that B"H I am 172 days clean on the internet and I owe you and everyone involved with this great organization a tremendous hakaras hatov for helping me get started. Just to give a little background since my childhood I have always s...

I just want to let you know that I have been making a Double Fence TaPhSiC shevua for the last few weeks but I never came close to even needing it all that time and I wondered if maybe it was a shevuah levatolo. Until last Thursday night, when I had a major slip and rea...

The past year has been different than most of the years of my life until now. Greater awareness, hope, a shared struggle, a glimpse of some truly precious neshomos who populate GYE, a feeling of belonging to a group of truly good people, an entirely new perspective on rel...

The 12 Step Program teaches us how to become Spiritually Fit, and when I am, the triggers can wiggle by and I just won't care to focus on them. Not 'white knuckling', boys, but BLESSED INDIFFERENCE. And I'm SOOOO thankful to Hashem for giving me of His strength to become ...

DEAR YIDDEN, TONIGHT I AM CELEBRATING MY TWO YEAR MARK OF BEING A MEMBER OF THIS HOLY CHABURAH I NEED TO THANK HASHEM KI HITZALTAH NAFSHI MISHEOL TACHTIYAH. THANK YOU HASHEM. MAY THE WEBSITE AND FORUM CONTINUE TO GROW AND MAY WE REACH THE DAY THAT ALL OF KLAL YISROEL BE S...