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"Surrender is a response that you can bring to that moment that you have made a mistake, you've gone the wrong path, you've relapsed.

Sorrow tearing me apart. Guilt eating my insides. Anger boiling my blood. When will we finally be free from these imaginary chains?

Real life won't be as exciting as your dreams, so you'll continue to live in your mind, and that will continue further into discontentment.

"The thing about fantasizing, even in the most harmless of ways, it only serves to make you discontent with the life you actually have."

Don't give up because of one bad chapter in your life. Keep going... your story doesn't end here.

Worrying often gives a small thing a big shadow.

Nothing of real worth in life comes without effort.

"employ your time in Improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain Easily what others have Labored Hard for." Socrates

This is the best TEDx video about addiction, haven't seen it anywhere posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eJEzg0Tfc4&pbjreload=10

You can only come to the morning through the shadows. -J.R.R. Talkien

"By searching for and finding answers you build more and more momentum towards a new way of being!"

"Quitting porn is like awakening from a long, numb, unsatisfying dream." - Anonymous

But with that discomfort comes the only chance of real freedom.

"When we aren't able to make a new behavior change it is because we associate more pain to changing and more pleasure to not changing."

"The will of an addict is very strong, just misdirected and protecting an illusion"

Self-love is treating yourself like a guest in your own home.

The path to freedom is a grounding and humbling one

Sexually compulsive behaviors are not about sexual desires most of the time, if not all the time, rather something deeper to be explored.

Always remember, don't be depressed about the past, don't worry about the future, and just focus on today.

''You will take all the right decisions you need to take, when you stop being a slave to your addiction.''