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¿LifeRing Secular Recovery en el Idioma Español? ¡Si!
LifeRing Secular Recovery is proud to introduce our first Spanish language HWYW meeting on Saturdays at 4:00pm Pacific Time beginning August 21st. Please join us in welcoming convenor Alejandro Diaz Guerrero! Born in Mexico and brought up in Inglewood, California, Alejandro is now back in Mexico working as a Spanish medical interpreter. This experience…
Special Monthly Meeting: LifeRing 101
LifeRing is proud to present a special meeting LifeRing members, friends and families, and people curious about LifeRing Secular Recovery. LifeRing 101 is held on the first Saturday of the month at 9:00am Pacific Time. LifeRing 101 | Introduction for Members, Friends, and Family The first Saturday of the Month at 9:00am Pacific Zoom Meeting…
The Liver Spot Is Growing!
The Liver Spot LifeRing meeting has captured the attention of Stanford,. UCSF, Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic to name a few medical centers equipped to meet the physical disruption and challenges caused by substance use disorder. Doctors and nurses and therapists are referring patients to The Liver Spot and our attendance is growing! The…
LifeRing Summer Newsletter
Here we are in the full heat of Summer! Lots of awesome things have been happening since the flurries of December. This is an exciting time for LifeRing. We’re adding new meetings, new committees and (at long last) a new LifeRing introductory pamphlet for distribution this month! We held our 2021 Annual Meeting in June…
Pride in LifeRing Meetings
We Can Do Better With Diversity and Inclusion in Recovery This Pride Recovery has a diversity and inclusion problem. Throughout the recovery world, we have what seems to be no meetings for the BIPOC population (none that I could find, and I really looked). Recovery is overwhelmingly white and straight from this Queer…
Juneteenth
As a queer man, I am struck by the significance of Juneteenth. As Pride Month is central to my community–to its shared identity and, well, its sense of pride–so is Juneteenth central to the identity and pride of the Black American community. Knowing we share this relationship to ritualistic commemorations only reaffirms my imperative to…
You Are Not Alone
You Are Not Alone An Interview with Dr. Michele Kenny; author of Keeping Covid Sober: One Isolated Drinker’s Journey through a Quarantined Pandemic. Michele is an active LifeRing Member, Convenor and Committee Coordinator. Interviewing Party (IP): Michele, what was it like to write about your own recovery path? And what did you learn from your…
Living Well With a Dual Diagnosis
Living Well With a Dual Diagnosis What is a Dual Diagnosis And Why Does It Matter? To be honest, I had never heard the term “dual diagnosis” until I started with LifeRing Secular Recovery. But once I got clear on what that meant, it gave me a powerful framework for understanding myself: my Bipolar diagnosis…
2021 LifeRing’s Annual Meeting and Congress
LifeRing Annual Meeting: Saturday, June 5, 2021, 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, Pacific Time June 5, 2021, 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, Pacific Time Saturday’s Highlights (complete meeting agenda listed below) Marty Nicolaus — Retired JD, co-founder of LifeRing Secular Recovery and author of numerous recovery support books. Dr. KJ Foster — Ph.D. in Counselor Education, founder, and CEO…