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It’s the hardest physical challenge of a Navy SEAL’s 24-week training. It’s where the remaining 20% of recruits are whittled down to the 5%. A former Navy SEAL who got through ‘Hell Week’ shared an important idea that we can all use to get through our challenge. Hell Wee...

Shabbos Parshas Nitzavim 5780 To help us keep inspired through Shabbos, GuardYourEyes is proud to present Weekly Newsletter #20, designed to be printed out and read over Shabbos. The pamphlet contains stories, divrei Torah, practical advice, humor and chizuk, all relating...

I thank Hashem that I found this supportive and loving group of Neshamot! I am a 50-year-old Jewish man, who is learning to love Hakodesh Baruch Hu through Daily Prayer deepening Torah Study, and the performance of Mitzvot. After watching a video lecture from a Rabbi abo...

How old will be you be in seven years if you don’t go to medical school (or fulfill any other ambition)? – Pauline Phillips (“Dear Abby”) Abigail Van Buren, who penned the long-running “Dear Abby” advice columns from 1956 until her death in 2013, was actually a Jewish wom...

Shabbos Parshas Ki Savo 5780 To help us keep inspired through Shabbos, GuardYourEyes is proud to present Weekly Newsletter #19, designed to be printed out and read over Shabbos. The pamphlet contains stories, divrei Torah, practical advice, humor and chizuk, all relating ...

I just read the vort "The Problem of Instant Gratification" in your parsha newsletter (page 4). It reminded me of a nice true story of the same idea that I heard about 40 years ago in Israel. A chossid was once lying in bed on a freezing morning in Russia. He was craving...

Shabbos Parshas Ki Teitze 5780 To help us keep inspired through Shabbos, GuardYourEyes is proud to present Weekly Newsletter #18, designed to be printed out and read over Shabbos. The pamphlet contains stories, divrei Torah, practical advice, humor and chizuk, all relatin...

We have started a SMART Recovery zoom meeting each Sunday morning at 9am Eastern. If you're interested in joining please write to smartlakewood@guardyoureyes.org. Through Zoom’s video and screen sharing features, this support group will resemble live meetings as closel...

I’m a Rebbe in a Yeshiva Elementary School. This past week, we met with the parents of a young man with severe anxiety as we prepared to set him up for the coming school year. Meeting by Zoom, we were joined by parents, teachers, administration and the boy's psychologist....

Shabbos Parshas Shoftim 5780 To help us keep inspired through Shabbos, GuardYourEyes is proud to present Weekly Newsletter #17, designed to be printed out and read over Shabbos. The pamphlet contains stories, divrei Torah, practical advice, humor and chizuk, all relating ...

One of the greatest successes of the 12-Step program is in teaching addicts how to surrender instead of fighting against desires that they feel ‘powerless’ over. How can we all apply this to our struggles, regardless of if we're addicts or not? What does surrender really ...

A GYE User wrote: I feel that I’ve been numbed by watching so much garbage to the concept of infidelity, which seems so thrilling etc. I'm very disturbed by this, because even if I can stop watching vids, the allure remains. I’m not dating yet, but I really want to try ch...

So many dear friends (mostly bochurim, but some marrieds too) are crying and miserable. They had worked so hard, b'ezras Hashem reached major milestones, and had attained real menuchas hanefesh. They had set up practical gedarim​, filters, guidelines, accountability. They...

“The Eyes of Hashem your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year” (Devarim 11:12). When trouble in the world causes people’s parnassah to decline, people make every effort to protect and stimulate their livelihoods. G-d fearing Jews,...

Shabbos Parshas Eikev 5780 To help us keep inspired through Shabbos, GuardYourEyes is proud to present Weekly Newsletter #16, designed to be printed out and read over Shabbos. The pamphlet contains stories, divrei Torah, practical advice, humor and chizuk, all relating to...

I am not one who does segulos or who says he understands why or how Hashem does things, but right after the first girl that I dated said no to me, I reached out to you for help and got a filter on my computer. Since then I have not even thought of watching anything bad, o...

In recent weeks I've been thinking about something I saw in one of Rabbi Noach Weinberg’s books where he speaks about reaching our goals. He says that the most common reason we don’t reach our goals is because it feels “heavy”, “painful” or “hard”, and therefore we don’t ...

Question: I’m 18 and according to Chazal I should get married. It is just not fair! My desires and urges are so great but I have at least 3 years to go until I get married! Sometimes I just feel like giving up. What is the proper outlook? Answer: First of all, Hashem sen...