Yiddle2 wrote on 08 Dec 2009 15:54:
Hi GYE community,
I thought of something that I think many people on the forum could benefit from. Right now we have these SA groups where there's a sponsor and sponsees on the call going through the 12 steps. It is great for anyone who wants to go through the steps. I am doing that, but I am also doing something else that I think has helped me tremendously. I call in on a non Jewish phone group. They dont have a sponsor run the call. They have people like me and you, in recovery. Theres a literature and they red questions and go around to people on the call and answer the questions. Everyone has like two minutes maximimum to answer each question. I think this would be a great idea for us to do. we could make our own support group. where we just answer the questions and everyone gets to speak (if you want you can just listen, but the call is based on people speaking up). These people do it every night but we dont have to. We could do it any set number of times per week. If anyone has interest in this then reply on this thread with your amount of interest (not at all, somewhat, very, YES YES YES, etc.), how many times a week you would the call to take place, and which days it should take place. I personally would want like 3 times a week. Thursday, Motzei Shabbos and maybe Monday but thats all flexible.
This is what I originally posted when I introduced the idea of this support group call. I haver a set of questions that we can go around as a group answerign them. They will not give us more info about our addiction, its intention is to give each of us insight by HEARING the voice of another addict and his (sorry no females on this call but you guys can start your own...mom) tribulations and successes that he had throughout his day, week, month, year, and life. Like I have said previously, I have done this and it has worked well. It has worked well through saying my story and hearing other people's story. GYE Kehilla: Our main problem is that we are too attached to our computer or TV screens. Getting out of isolation is a must in order to be free from lust. This will start off as a trial. One day. Thats all I ask of people to commit. We can do it either in the middle of the day so people in Israel can join or do it at night if only people in America want to do it.
So I say again!
מִי לַיה-וָה אֵלָי
