Tips & Suggestions

Ahron Posted on the Forum: I have gotten to the point where I can ;occasionally ;understand why "normal" people view p***n as repulsive (not all the time though). I'm happy about that. However seeing pretty women on the street, even with no further thought beyond the first glance, triggers lust i...

In our "Practical Tips" section on our site (at the very bottom of the page), we present a tip called "The Last Resort" for someone who is about to stumble. We offer ;an alternative to viewing pictures of flesh that will turn one "on", namely by showing pictures of flesh that will turn one "off"....

I was on the street, walking back from getting lunch at a milchig restaurant in Manhattan because of course, it's the Nine Days so we don't eat meat. But the Yetzer Hara doesn't mind that one, it seems. He was much more intent on getting me to lust after women who felt that 90 degrees and humid j...

Here's what helped me after a 15 year addiction. . . A rabbi was saying that if you would rather DIE than eat a bug, that Hashem won't have it happen that you will ever eat a bug. I had heard this before as a Chasidic story, but the Rabbi said it in such a way, he said that if there is any sin wh...

HOW TO START EACH DAY RIGHT 1. Open a new file in your computer.2. Name it 'Lust'. ;3. Send it to the Recycle Bin. ;4. Empty the Recycle Bin. ;5. Your PC will ask you: 'Do you really want to get rid of Lust?6. Firmly Click 'Yes'

I just saw an ad for GYE on ;YeshivaWorld.com. It reminded me of the ad I saw last August that changed my life. Wow - it's almost a year that I'm clean of the bad stuff!! ;(See Jack's 90 day timeline ;here). But, I know I could fall in a second - so I'd better not be too haughty. A person can fal...

Someone who has been on our forum for a long time and put in a lot of effort to break this addiction and yet still continued to have occasional falls, wrote on the forum: I think many of us have given it our all. We've made drastic changes in our lives, created many fences, worked so hard in our ...

I'm sorry if you weren't warned, but the fact is - this forum is a one way street; there is no leaving! This is a club of fighters, not winners. In truth, we ;are winners, because ;not giving up IS winning. ;When the angels claimed that the Torah should be given to them and not us, Hashem answer...

Rav Arush discusses how people get depressed because even though they try their best to succeed, they fail and continue to fall. ;He writes that if someone gets depressed, he should realize that he doesn't have enough Emunah, because he thinks that he could accomplish something that Hashem didn't...

The miracle is in process at this very moment! It is more useful for me to be aware of one short coming in myself, than realizing a thousand in someone else. Happiness is not ready made, it is built through our actions. I know that true happiness comes from Hashem - and it comes ;from within...