Posts by LifeRing

A recent post from a LifeRing email group sums up the experience of many upon finding LifeRing:     Without being too dramatic, my childhood years were pretty traumatic.  I was shuttled around from orphanage to orphanage, foster home to foster home, till I was in my teens.  The resounding message that I received from all…

A member of, and  convenor for, LifeRing has written an article that was published in “Secular News Daily,” an online magazine. The article, entitled  “When it comes to Sobriety, a Choice of Support” was written by Byron Kerr, who has started several LifeRing meetings in the Santa Rosa, CA, area and is now concentrating his…

A recent article in ASAMagazine, an online publication that bills itself as “The Voice of Addiction Medicine” features words that are music to the ears of those who believe in the need for doctors and treatment professionals to offer real choices to their patients and clients. “I have seen many of my colleagues view 12-step…

A video of a lecture given by LifeRing’s founding leader Martin Nicolaus in Victoria, Canada, is now available again. The talk was given to a group of medical professionals at ‘Psychiatric Grand Rounds’ at the Eric Martin Institution in October of 2010. It provides a very good look at the intellectual underpinning of LifeRing. view…