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Re: Hi, I'm Alex 09 Apr 2025 13:02 #434419

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grant400 wrote on 08 Apr 2025 23:35:

alex94 wrote on 08 Apr 2025 22:24:
100 days. Clink clink.
I wish i could deal with anxiety and fear like with lust.
Dont fight it, look it in the eye, say "I know you" (that means: I know you like trying to make me feel like the word will end if you dont get what you want, but we both know its just a show) and keep on moving.
Thank you Hashem.
Please help me grow.

CBT...

Welcome back!!!!!

Oh Holy General, please return to guide your troops into battle as in days of yore!!!!
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 very small (recently updated and PDF available):
https://guardyoureyes.com/forum/4-On-the-Way-to-90-Days/378128-Captain—Shtarkemotionals-Secret90Day-Challenge
Last Edit: 09 Apr 2025 13:03 by captain.

Re: Hi, I'm Alex 11 Apr 2025 15:48 #434519

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I'm honored to have the great Grant comment on my thread.
I've been exposed to CBT practitioners since I was young. What was always lacking was my motivation and sense of self to really believe in the change that was needed and do the work.
BH through extensive therapy and work I have upgraded my standard of self-care to being clean and keeping track of being clean. 
I'm davening to Hashem that this Pesach should be the beginning of a new Aliya in me taking better care of myself on a new level and working on things like anxiety.
Wishing everyone here meaningful experience of their innate freedom this Pesach, no matter in what bondage they seem to find themselves. May we be all be able to envision what freedom we seek to get to, and may we be more free to pursue our destiny than we could ever imagine.
יגל לבי בישועתך אשירה לה' כי גמל עלי

Re: Hi, I'm Alex 20 Apr 2025 16:14 #434700

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An inspiring thought I heard from Reb Shimon Spitzer that I want to take with me from Pesach.
When we are in any kind of constriction or Galus it is of course divinely orchestrated.
There is a subtle choice however, in what we do with this information.
Sometimes one may think his job is to stay in this situation and put up with it.
The answer to this is that when a Yid is in a situation that is weighing down on him and he can't serve Hashem beSimcha, Hashem certainly wants him to come out of this situation. The Shechinah itself is in in exile and in Tzaar with this Jew, because Hashem's presence cannot be fully manifested through him in this state.
So part of being open to redemption is working to not make ourselves a permanent residence in whatever transitory stage of Egypt we are in, working on our relationship with Hashem from whevrver we are and at the same time doing what we can to get out of this situation.
Last Edit: 20 Apr 2025 16:15 by alex94.
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