12 Misc.

 Keeping the Sobriety Priority fresh in our minds is helped with daily reinforcement. The following are excerpts from email posts contributed to a “Daily Do” topic.. Laura L:  One thing that helped me a lot when I got sober was to actually write down how drinking made me feel, and all the guilt, shame etc.,…

   Contributed by a member of the Santa Rosa CA LifeRing meeting These thoughts and actions have helped some achieve abstinence.  They may, or may not, be suitable for you. 1. Change mind set to one of a non-drinker/user.  This is easier said than done.  Consider how it’s helped quarterbacks, amputees, etc.  (Psychocybernetics by Maxwell Maltz.)…

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…