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Re: ADVICE NEEDED 17 Aug 2021 01:33 #371675

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The "inevitable fall" is the sheker - big fat lie of the yetzer hara. There is no need at all to ejaculate - and this is coming from a guy who used to masturbate 3 times a day...... Get past this warped thought and you are heading to iyh break free.
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Re: ADVICE NEEDED 17 Aug 2021 03:53 #371682

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Is there a way to be on guard instead of being overconfident, and to be prepared just in case but without feeling that a fall is inevitable? Because if you feel it's inevitable then it will actually be inevitable. Maybe you can take the maalos of being cautious and planning and not being reckless without the chisronos of self-bashing and self-fulfilling-prophecies.
In the place where ba’alei teshuva stand, even pure tzaddikim who never sinned cannot stand. (Rabbi Avohu, Brachos 34b)

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My favorite book for breaking free: The Battle of the Generation 
https://guardyoureyes.com/ebooks/item/the-battle-of-the-generation. Change your attitude and change your life!

Rabbi Shafier's incredible lectures on breaking free: The Fight. Download here: 
https://theshmuz.com/series/the-fight/

If you're only ready to try something small, check out an easier way to do self-talk here:
https://guardyoureyes.com/forum/4-On-the-Way-to-90-Days/378128-Captain—Shtarkemotionals-Secret90Day-Challenge

Re: ADVICE NEEDED 17 Aug 2021 23:38 #371704

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4 days, 
im starting to wonder why its even a תאוה, even from a purely physical perspective i feel much better, alert and focused, after only a few days. its amazing how fleeting pleasure overpowers basic pleasure of life.
jack

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Re: ADVICE NEEDED 20 Aug 2021 13:19 #371771

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7 days
i made it to a week
and now i fell.
last time i promised to stay and after 2 days i gave up. im gonna really try hard to start over properly, this time.
send me chizzuk please!!

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Re: ADVICE NEEDED 20 Aug 2021 13:28 #371772

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You view it as:

I fell. I'm a mess/ sinner. And it doesn't matter what else happened. This act I just did defines me.

The real view is:

For 7 days, you were challenged with small challenges and possibly big ones and you fought back many times. Each effort you put in is priceless.
(And if we want to get even more real, it doesn't really matter how many days it was, only how many times you fought. But we'll use your numbers.)
And your identity from all this should be that you are a fighter, not a sinner.
Get back up! It's a big struggle but no one asked you to be clean or perfect or to be a "tzaddik," just to try! (And then you're a true tzaddik!)
In the place where ba’alei teshuva stand, even pure tzaddikim who never sinned cannot stand. (Rabbi Avohu, Brachos 34b)

Great free resources:
My favorite book for breaking free: The Battle of the Generation 
https://guardyoureyes.com/ebooks/item/the-battle-of-the-generation. Change your attitude and change your life!

Rabbi Shafier's incredible lectures on breaking free: The Fight. Download here: 
https://theshmuz.com/series/the-fight/

If you're only ready to try something small, check out an easier way to do self-talk here:
https://guardyoureyes.com/forum/4-On-the-Way-to-90-Days/378128-Captain—Shtarkemotionals-Secret90Day-Challenge

Re: ADVICE NEEDED 22 Aug 2021 04:42 #371787

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Jack you did great! 

We fall when we are not properly prepared for the situation that led to it (if you were, you would not have fallen). Take this fall as a learning experience, see what can change to make sure you are better prepared next time.

Take it and grow from it, then it becomes part of your recovery.

I don't know why you are here and fighting but you keep on coming back so you obviously have a good reason. do those reasons still apply?

Use that as motivation, use what brought you back to keep you going. 

We are here for each other.

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