Five Gates from the Rabbi Doctor Lynn Kesselman

I recently read a book by Dr. Rabbi Lynn Kesselman. The book was Recover with me. Lynn Kesselman talks about his past and his troubles in dealing with addiction and anxiety and depression. The book was really helpful and Lynn Kesselman gave some great advice and a real strategy which is already helping to get my own life back in order. I've personally dealt with alcoholism for a long time now. Maybe I'm not a belligerent drunk that beats his wife and dog, but I still get a bit raucous at times. I've been known to throw the TV through the front window because dinner isn't ready on time. Or to sob like a little baby till my tears run out. I've felt like I've been on an emotional roller-coaster since drinking has taken over my life. Slowly but surely I've lost my self down the neck of a bottle.

Don't just take my word, here is what Roy Evans had to say about the Rabbi Doctor Lynn Kesselman's Book"

I have served as President and Executive Director for

Bridge Back Correctional Re‐Entry Facility (prison) for the

past 35 years where I have attended to the needs of

countless recovering people. I have come to see recovery

from addictions as only one dimension of a far greater

need. The greater need touches all of us; we need a firm

connection with a sense of faith that we can have a good life

free from anxiety, depression, addictions and all of the

emotional and mental disorders which typically plague

almost every inmate at Bridge Back.

The early vision for Bridge Back was that we would

help our inmates recover from substance addictions, but

early on we learned that all who suffer from this affliction

also suffer from anxieties, depression, and other emotional

and mental disorders. They are connected in ways brilliantly

and thoroughly explained in Five Gates — The

Science of Healing the Spirit. We’ve all dreamed that one day

there would be a magic pill that would banish these

problems, but until now it seemed as though such a universal

answer would be many years in coming.

Five Gates — The Science of Healing the Spirit is not a pill

but it is the first program I have seen which holds the

promise of arresting and reversing the epidemic which

keeps mine and all other prisons full and the courts overwhelmed

with an endless supply of new disturbed and

addicted offenders. Five Gates starts by helping us see how

we have become who we are and continues to describe not

only how we would ideally be, but also gives us a method

by which we can improve ourselves quickly.

At first it seemed wrong to believe that one program

could solve all of these problems at the same time and

quickly. We have fellowships for alcoholism, narcotic

addictions, cocaine addictions, rage disorder, eating disxii

orders, sexual compulsions, emotional unrest, and

countless others. We have medical specialists for every one

of these, yet so few people really get well. I believe that

Lynn Kesselman has hit on the method for tying all of these

together into a single perspective and treatment method for

reversing their underlying cause, the dysfunctional fears

which drive people into these states of disrepair. The Five

Gates Program attacks these problems at their root which

we all knew was

I urge anyone having similar issues with anxiety induced depression and addiction to search out the Rabbi Doctor Lynn Kesselman and get help to quickly and effectively change their patterns for the better. Make today a new day and yesterday just fade into the past.