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Any advice on
.how to stop watching adult content for good?
.How do heal my mind from the effects of it?
.How do I stop the perverted thoughts?

Any advice on
.how to stop watching adult content for good?
.How do heal my mind from the effects of it?
.How do I stop the perverted thoughts?

Doctor said I can’t shower nor can I take my vest off. I unzip the top layer just to readjust because it slips down a little and doesn’t compress as much. I also have the drains in me that’s also a pain in the ass. I’m all sore and sweaty. It hurts a lot and I have a rash. I’m just complaining atp. Does anyone have any advice or tips on how I can speed this up a little?

I’ll be honest with you all. I’m really struggling and I don’t know where to start.

I have what doctors label as ADHD and a learning disability, but personally I don’t see these as neurological problems — I see them more as spiritual struggles, passions of the soul. Disinterest, boredom, restlessness. If something captures my attention I can spend hours on it. But when it comes to reading Scripture, learning theology, studying prayers, or going to Liturgy — I drag my feet, I procrastinate, I zone out. And that conviction alone weighs on me.

What troubles me most is that my faith feels materialistic and shallow. I catch myself relating more to the icon or the priest than to God Himself — like they are God rather than windows toward Him. I know that’s not right, but I don’t know how to move past it.

My heart feels hardened. My ears feel deaf. My eyes feel blind. Prayer feels like I’m talking to a wall. I push through it sometimes and nothing seems to change. I struggle with despondency, impatience, and honestly — jealousy. When I see other Orthodox Christians receiving visible blessings, growing in virtue, reaching a nearness to God that I desperately want, something bitter rises in me instead of joy for them.

Putting God first feels almost impossible when everything in me resists it.

More than anything, I want to learn how to actually trust God — not just intellectually acknowledge that I should, but genuinely surrender to Him. I want to know what He wants for my life. I want to reach the point where I can lay everything down and let Him take control, stop white-knuckling my own plans and will, and just rest in His providence. But I don’t even know where to begin with that kind of surrender.

I guess my questions are:

•	How do you trust God when you feel absolutely nothing in prayer?  
•	How do you break through spiritual dryness and a hardened heart?  
•	How do you deal with the passion of jealousy toward others who seem further along spiritually?  
•	How do you discern God’s will for your life when you feel spiritually deaf?  
•	How do you actually surrender control — not just say you will, but mean it?  
•	Is there a way to approach Scripture and theology when your mind genuinely won’t cooperate?

I’m not looking for someone to fix me. I just want to know if anyone else has been here and what the Fathers or your own experience say about it.

I’d say I’m pretty jacked and that I have a lot of muscle. I’m trying to get rid of fat near my gut area and lean down for bootcamp. I’ve been doing this for 5 weeks already and nothing major is changing, weight goes up and down and maybe I’m a little leaner when I’m fasted. When I re feed I go back to 220 and I’m a little bloated that’s all. This has been going on for a couple weeks now. Any advice?

I need tips on increasing pull ups number. Stuck between 10-15 regular

Weighted with 60 lbs I can do 6

The max number is 23 pull ups to get 100 points

3:40 min plank

18 min 3 mile

I got 2 months to prep. I need tips that actually work.