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SAD – The Season is Upon Us!
With Daylight Savings Time right around the corner, it’s time to talk SAD. Over 10 Million Americans experience Seasonal Affective Disorder. I’m one of them. Okay, I’m not going to say it’s ironic, or perhaps a little ridiculous, for a person with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) to live in the San Francisco Avenues, but here…
Veterans in Recovery
It is our great honor to introduce LifeRing’s newest online special meeting starting this Veterans Day 2021, November 11th at 4:00pm Pacific: Veterans in Recovery HWYW Online Meeting Thursdays at 4:00pm Pacific Time First Meeting: Veterans Day, November 11, 2021 Veterans in Recovery is a closed meeting and attendance is reserved exclusively for veterans…
LifeRing Volunteers Needed: Peer Alternatives for Addiction 2 (PAL2) Study
RESEARCH PARTICIPATION UPDATE — 11.24.2021: WE’RE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THAT LIFERING PARTICIPATION NUMBERS HAS BEEN MET. THANK YOU!! The Peer Alternatives for Addiction (PAL) Study has received the required number of surveys from LifeRing participants, They have closed the online survey while completing survey verifications. We’ll post an update should new participates be needed…
LifeRing Outreach Committee
A Call to Action COVID has transformed the recovery community with the unprecedented rise in alcohol abuse, substance abuse, and suicide. According to the CDC 93,000 individuals died from an overdose in 2020 alone. There has never been a more important time to raise the voice of the nonprofit, self-help recovery support group.…
Why Is Choice So Important?
Finding the right recovery pathway is a deeply personal undertaking. What may work for one person may not for another. One of my best friends and running buddy quit drinking and using about a month before I did. He chose the 12-step approach while I embraced Lifering’s secular platform. My choice was right for me.…
LifeRing Migrates to Scotland
LifeRing is proud to introduce our online “How Was Your Week” meeting originating in Scotland, UK. This meeting is convened by well-traveled Edinburgh native Michael T. Michael writes: LifeRing has had a profound effect on me that I will always be grateful for. I always feel better after a meeting. There is something unique…
LifeRing’s First Co-occurring Disorders Meeting
Since our first co-occurring disorders focus meeting on Wednesday, August 23, 2021 – LifeRing has added four new co-occurring disorders meetings throughout the week including one for Polish-speakers diagnosed with co-occurring disorders. To see the latest LifeRing Focus Meetings, please refer to the LifeRing Online Meetings Page | Focus Meetings Breakout Menu at the bottom…
Gone
During winter of 2016, in a smoky, dimly-lit garage, I remember Nate scratching these lyrics into a notebook. He would then strum his guitar, change up a few words and refrains, and take a swig from his bottle. I often hung out with the “boys”; we would sing along with the guitars, wax philosophically, laugh,…