Tips & Suggestions

This was a ;really ;great post on our Forum by "battleworn" and ;I want to share it with everyone: I've been thinking that the website is really loaded with great advice, but it would probably be helpful to some people to lay down the basic steps. So I'll try to start and I welcome your comments ...

Someone wrote in today some thoughts that help him, and I would like to share them with everyone: I just want to tell you that your site and chizuk etc. seems to have helped me a lot, and is continuing to do so. Hashem Yishmereinu veyechzkeinu. Some additional thoughts: 1. Stopping these things...

Someone that I am a sponsor for, recently wrote me as follows: One of the ideas mentioned on ;the weekly call this past Tuesday that I thought was great, is that it's OK to let painful feelings just sit there. ; It's OK to be in pain - it's part of life and it will pass. ; We addicts are not awar...

Someone posted something beautiful on the forum. Ahhh, the Yetzer Harah. ; Yes, this shmendrick IS stronger than us, and yes, without Hashems help, we have NO chance of overcoming him. He knows this truth, and I personally have experienced this over many many years. I had realized that the ONLY c...

Someone recently sent us the following e-mail: I first of all wanted to thank you very much for all your efforts & chizuk. I wanted to share my experience with you so if you think it's appropriate to share it with everyone, you can. I was R'L a serious addict and for me it was a daily and som...

It's Elul and we all want to start doing Teshuvah, but we ask ourselves "Where do we start?". Someone posted on the forum yesterday something simple ;yet profound from the ;Chofetz Chaim (and we added it to our ;Teshuva page). The ;Chofetz Chaim says that the essence of doing Teshuvah is to make ...

The Gemara in Kidushin 81/a tells a story: Some women who had been taken captive were redeemed and brought to Nehardai. They were kept in the attic of Rav Amram the Chasid and ;the ladder was removed. At night, a ;beam of light reflected ;off one of the women, revealing her beauty. Rav Amram was ...

The ;"Jewish Healing Group" had a great FREE session this past Tuesday night, with a professional sex-therapist on the line who offered a lot of important information of the nature of the addiction. One important ;aspect mentioned by the therapist was, that although we are all religious, ;Mussar ...

Posted by 'Mevakesh Hashem' on ;the forum: One who thinks that they are ever "in full control" is opening himself up for a nasty fall, as the Yetzer Hara is a lot stronger than you! One must ALWAYS realize that they are never "in full control", rather they are in the control of Hashem Yisborach!...

Here are some excerpts from a discussion on ;our forum that's just packed with great tips and chizuk! (Some slight editing was done to make it easier to read). "Frumthinker" writes: I came across this site today, and I felt compelled to make some comments here. I won't say that I am very far alon...