Posts by The Chief

Keepers: Voices of Secular Recovery edited and with an introduction by Marty Nicolaus From LifeRing Press Keepers is a selection of more than 120 short items culled from among the best postings by members of the LifeRing email list during 1996 – 1999. A small number of copies of the book are still available at…

On the Thursday and Friday leading up to the 2005 LifeRing Congress in Guelph, Dr. Ronald Warner of the University of Toronto led a workshop entitled “Solution Focused Interviewing: Basic Skills.”  I was one of the more than two dozen paying participants. Like Moliere’s bourgeois gentleman who discovers that he has been “speaking prose all…

By Rick B. Rick eloquently and accurately  explains to a newbie what LifeRing is, and what it IS NOT.  “LifeRing is not a pill, or a magic spell, or a secret formula.  LifeRing is simply an organization of people who share a common goal – sobriety,  and who share some common basic beliefs about how…

by Tim in Toronto The scene: A party. Our cast of characters: Larry: Somebody who used to drink too much Alvin: Somebody who enjoys the occasional snifter of brandy And now, Larry and Alvin discuss drinking… 9:00 PM Alvin: Care for a drink? Larry: No, thanks. Alvin: You don’t drink? Larry: Nope. Alvin: Why not?…