Posts by The Chief

Regular visitors to LifeRing.org may have noticed a good deal of unavailability recently. Anyone familiar with “simple” updates of a computer system will sympathize. We believe that things are now back to normal and stable. Thanks for your patience and BIG thanks to Karen I., our hard-working (and very persistent, thank goodness) IT coordinator.

A head’s up: the LifeRing website will be down for a few hours on Nov. 11. We’re upgrading something and it requires saving and re-loading the site’s content. If all goes well, it won’t take terribly long.

The California Association of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors held their annual get-together this past weekend and LifeRing was there. Joe Mott, a LifeRing board member, and Cat H., an active member, manned a table in the exhibitor’s area for the largest annual gathering of California treatment professionals. Joe and Cat reported that they receive…

Martin Nicolaus, author of Empowering Your Sober Self and Recovery by Choice, has an article in the recent edition of the “Journal of Groups in Addiction and Recovery.” Nicolaus, the founding leader of LifeRing who retired in 2010, still makes regular speaking engagements drawing on his knowledge and experience in the recovery field. The article,…