LifeRing Resources

Welcome to LifeRing Secular Recovery

You have the power to overcome substance use challenges. LifeRing is here to help you succeed!

LifeRing is a worldwide, peer-led community dedicated to helping individuals achieve freedom from alcohol and non-medically indicated drugs. Our approach centers on personal empowerment, encouraging you to develop and strengthen your Sober Self to achieve and maintain abstinence. We believe there are as many paths to a substance-free life as there are successful sober people. Through mutual support and the sharing of practical experiences, our network provides a safe, non-judgmental space to help you on your recovery journey.

Strengthen Your Sober Self

LifeRing is dedicated to helping you strengthen your Sober Self and weaken the Addicted Self. Our local and online meetings provide a community where individuals can connect Sober-Self to Sober-Self. We share knowledge, understanding, and encouragement, focusing on our current lives rather than past hurts. This direct, peer-to-peer connection empowers you to learn from others and build your own strength.

We believe that within every person facing substance use challenges, there's a desire for lasting sobriety—what we call the Sober Self. While addiction can suppress this part of you, it's always there. We also recognize the Addicted Self, which seeks to control decisions and perpetuate substance use.

Your Path, Your Power

At LifeRing, we deeply respect your unique path to recovery. We understand that sobriety is a personal journey, and we celebrate the diverse ways people achieve it. Many of our members find success by participating in various recovery programs, and we fully support those choices.

What we offer is a focus on positive, practical, present-day solutions that can help transform despair into hope and resolve. We've seen this approach work for countless individuals, regardless of their past experiences or previous methods of seeking recovery. Ultimately, we respectfully embrace whatever works for you in your pursuit of a substance-free life.

Your Own Personal Recovery Program

Unlike approaches that rely on external steps, higher powers, or sponsors, LifeRing believes you are the expert in designing your own Personal Recovery Program (PRP). You know what you need to embrace, what to let go of, what triggers cravings, and what brings healthy pleasure. You are the only one who can truly navigate your path to recovery, and LifeRing provides the supportive community to help you succeed.

How LifeRing Supports You

LifeRing provides support for you to get and stay addiction-free. You do the hard work, and we offer information, advice, understanding, and lots of support:

• Information and Knowledge Exchange: Practical tools and insights from those with lived experience.
• Understanding and Encouragement: A non-judgmental community that truly gets it.
• Supportive Connections: Find safe and empowering connections through LifeRing's local meetings, online meetings, Email groups, and various publications from the LifeRing Book Store — all here to help your recovery success.