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I came across some great chizuk that "Mevakesh Hashem" posted on our forum to someone who is just starting out on their journey and is having a hard time:   When the Yetzer Hara realizes that you are ready for real to give up the evil addiction, that's when he tightens th...

Listen up, all you spiritual warriors on our list! We keep receiving e-mails from people how difficult the struggle is and how they keep slipping... Dear Yidden! We know how powerful lust is, and how insidious the addiction can be! BUT... We know that the addiction is de...

Here are some excerpts from an article on www.chabad.org that deals with recovery from addictions. Rabbi Benyamin Bresinger has worked with addicts for twenty years. He is the creator of a national seminar which integrates kabbalah and the 12 steps of Alcohol Anonymous, a...

MAZAL TOV to our dear member Jack for reaching 90 clean days! We added a new "Simcha Niggun" to our Music page in honor of Jack's achievement (scroll down to the 'Simcha Nigunim'). Let's put on Jack's Simcha Niggun (set it to loop) and let's dance together with Jack in o...

An inspiring Post on the Forum from "Chasdei Avos" I just wanted to share that I have been clean, bli ayin Horah, since Rosh Chodesh Elul. I get chills just saying that. Thank You Hashem so much. I must say, my shalom bayis, including both emotional and physical, contin...

I recently read an amazing story of an older couple from Russia. The wife called the Chevrah Kadisha and told them that her husband had died. They came and took the body and prepared him for burial. The next day, the Chevrah Kadisha came to the Beis Hakvaros and no one wa...

"Me" posted on the Forum:I saw in the Le'kutei Moran (Torah 25) an unbelievable Limud that pertains to all of us. (The following is my Hakdamah): We have our ups, and then our downs. Then we go up again and down again. Sometimes when we start to fall, we get depressed, an...

Most Yidden go through life content with doing the Mitzvos in the same way that they were taught as kids, never developing a deeper connection with their spirituality. However, this struggle often forces us to realize that without a true connection to our ideals, even the...

One of our members was once a hard-core addict in the worst ways and was sent by Rabbi Avraham Twerski to the SA groups. His life had hit rock bottom and having no choice, he joined the groups and worked the 12 steps program until it became his very "life-blood". He learn...

One of the members of our forum who goes by the name "Jack", has been struggling for 38 years. Thank G-d, Jack is already past 60 days clean with the help of all the wonderful people who offer support on the forum. Jack's time-line can be viewed here, and his thread on th...

Someone sent us his story recently, and at the end he writes: "I've come a long way, and with the help of this site and the forum, I'm able to climb further up. But till today, I still have a hard time talking to women and I feel like I blush every time I have to face one...

Emotional safety is a funny thing, It should really be what your parents bring, But if it is something that given to you, they have not, It then becomes something, for which to be sought. Heed my words; do not search amongst virtual places, It can be found, but does not l...

Dear holy Yidden, We might have a tendency to think that after Rosh Hashana and Yom-Kippur when we worked so hard and achieved spiritual heights, the Yetzer Hara won't bother us for a while. I must warn you. It is exactly the other way around. Precisely when there is so m...

"Jack" Posted: To the people that think they are not doing well because they are still falling: it is a process. In the beginning of the process, you think you're not doing well because you still fall. But falling and getting up is PART OF THE PROCESS. What do you think, ...

Here are excerpts from an inspiring post by "Boruch" on the forum (edited a bit for clarity): Until recently, deep down, I believed that I was really in control and if only I wanted to enough... But that was the critical error. Because what I thought was my single greates...

"Struggling" Posted on the forum: What I don't miss today about my addiction: - Feeling shame and guilt. - Trying to cover my tracks - Sneaking around and trying to think of excuses - Lying to the people I love and who love me! - Having to turn the sound off on my compu...

Yesterday, two great warriors on the forum hit Level 6, their 70th day clean! They call themselves "BeHoly" and "Ano-nymous" - a Buchor. We are looking forward to making a big Le'chayim for them when they reach the 90 Day "Wall of Honor" chart. They both posted very insp...

A new warrior who calls himself "Boruch" has joined the forum. After coming to the realization that he is dealing with a full blown addiction, he is strongly determined to break free of it. He said: "I now realize that half-hearted measures will not work anymore and I am ...