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I wrote to you a few months ago telling you about the book "Breaking the Cycle". At that point, I wasn't ready for your approach on GYE. I needed to deal with the addiction without any mussar. This book greatly helped me, but it wasn't enough. A few weeks ago I looked th...

At first, I was afraid, I was petrified Kept thinking, I could never live without you by my side But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong And I grew strong and I learned how to get along And so you're back from outer space I just walked in to fi...

An ageing master grew tired of his apprentice’s complaints. One morning, he sent him to get some salt. When the apprentice returned, the master told him to mix a handful of salt in a glass of water and then drink it. “How does it taste?” the master asked. “Bitter,” said...

My school recently made a video for some project to be shared on social media. I noticed that the boys in my class, who were involved in the video, purposefully put videos of themselves looking real good so that the girls from the girls' school will watch it and see how ...

The Torah says Haggar put Yishmael under a tree, walked two bow shots away so as not to see him die from thirst and sat down to cry. The malach opened her eyes and she saw a well. The pasuk says: "She walked, she filled up her water skin, and gave the boy to drink." Wher...

Dear Higher Power, please come to my aid, I've started again and can't stop. You've helped me before, so many times, and I know that you will once again. Alone I'm so lost, but with You, I'm OK, just guide me, I'm willing to follow. Beloved King, as I understand You, ...

ONCE AGAIN, THAT AWFUL PAIN SHAME, REMORSE, I'VE GONE INSANE THAT FIRST LOOK, MUST'NT DRINK BUT I DID AND NOW OF ALL I CAN THINK IS MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE I SIMPLY CANNOT CLOSE THE DOOR THE BEAST IS LET LOOSE AND RUNS AMOK BEFORE I CAN PAUSE AND TAKE STOCK. NOW I SIT ...

The Pasuk says (Shemos 21:26) "If a man hits the eye of his servant or the eye of his maidservant and damages it, to freedom he shall send him in place of his eye". When a person can’t control what he looks at he becomes a slave to the Yetzer Hara. But the Pasuk is tell...

I have a great tool that helped me a ton.It's a small but powerful tefila that works instantly, and according to the guy that taught it to me, it works for everyone. First, a few things to point out before I begin. It's important to know that we always have bechira (choi...

Lying here in a depression, Lost in a powerful digression, All that work made no impression, I have yet to learn my lesson. Seven months of being clean, Of staying far from things obscene. One misplaced ad in a magazine, And now square one I am back in. Why am I tempte...

Don't just lie there alone, come on out - join the group, We're all fightin' a battle and we need every single troop, We're all in this together, here's my hand, hold on tight, I can't afford to lose you, so I'll pull with all my might. There's no time for depression, w...

Everything that happens on Earth is connected to what's happening in Shomayim. In every Jew, there are 70 nations struggling for dominance over the "Jew" part inside of us. Considering the current situation, we must fight back. We, the GYE members, are Hashem's front-lin...

Hey! What's all this commotion? I second Hillel's notion. There is no magic potion Nor "anti-falling" lotion. Smile. Stay a while. No room for self pity or denial. Put your "Will power" on trial And guilt, despair, and other thoughts so vile! It's time we all adjust...

Shabbos 31b: "All the Torah in the world won't save a person unless he has Yiras Shomayim." Artscroll footnote at the end of the sugya defines Yiras Shomayim as negating YOUR will in order to fulfill Hashem's will. Yes, Torah and honesty in business are indispensable, BUT...

Even though I have 3 years of SA sobriety, the lust struggles come and go in cycles, and never go away completely... B"H, it wasn't real shmutz, but I got lost this week and last week watching movies and movie clips, some even rated R to satisfy the lust urge to see skin,...

Dear chashuva fellow strugglers,You might ask, if the Jews said naaseh v'nishma, why did the Creator find it necessary to force them to accept the Torah by hanging a mountain over their heads? The answer is that the Creator of all things knew that even though the people...

First the problem: We are sincere people who want to stand before Hashem and tell Him that we really do not want this lust in our lives. That "I want to do Your will, not mine." We want to stand on these days of the Yomim Noraim, free of sin, free of this lust. We want t...

Dear GYE Family, I hope everyone had an easy fast and a meaningful and uplifting Yom Kippur. Now as we move from the Yemei HaDin (which were also Yemei HaSimcha) into the days of Z'man Simchaseinu, I'd like to share a few thoughts with the chevra, which have special signi...