Posts by The Chief

Two long-time LifeRing volunteers carried our message to the Southwestern School for Behavioral Health Studies Conference in Tucson, AZ. The event ran from Aug. 20-23. Tim Reith (pictured), a LifeRing board member and meeting convenor in Tucson headed the effort, helped by former LifeRing board member Chet Gardner. Tim reports: I think things went pretty…

A member of one of the LifeRing email groups asked for examples of a “plan” for staying sober, since LifeRing places the responsibility for building a plan or program on each of us as we each develop our own approach to getting and staying clean and sober. This is a reply that explains very well…

August 1, 2012, is the date of the very first LifeRing meeting in Humboldt County in Northern California on the Pacific Ocean coast. The meeting, in McKinleyville, will happen every Wednesday at 7 p.m. . The convenor for the meeting says it will be structured around the “How Was Your Week?” approach used in most…

After many months of frustration, LifeRing’s newest convenor, Roy R., is ready to go with the first LifeRing meeting  in the Miami, Florida, area. On Tuesday, July 24th, the meeting will have its first gathering. After that, it will meet every Tuesday at 7 p.m. In large urban areas it’s often difficult to find a…