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Pride in LifeRing Meetings
We Can Do Better With Diversity and Inclusion in Recovery This Pride Recovery has a diversity and inclusion problem. Throughout the recovery world, we have what seems to be no meetings for the BIPOC population (none that I could find, and I really looked). Recovery is overwhelmingly white and straight from this Queer…
Read MoreJuneteenth
Official Recognition of Juneteenth as a National Holiday Adds Cause to Celebrate As a queer man, I am struck by the significance of Juneteenth. As Pride Month is central to my community–to its shared identity and, well, its sense of pride–so is Juneteenth central to the identity and pride of the Black American community. Knowing…
Read MoreYou Are Not Alone
You Are Not Alone An Interview with Dr. Michele Kenny; author of Keeping Covid Sober: One Isolated Drinker’s Journey through a Quarantined Pandemic. Michele is an active LifeRing Member, Convenor and Committee Coordinator. Interviewing Party (IP): Michele, what was it like to write about your own recovery path? And what did you learn from your…
Read MoreLiving Well With a Dual Diagnosis
Living Well With a Dual Diagnosis What is a Dual Diagnosis And Why Does It Matter? To be honest, I had never heard the term “dual diagnosis” until I started with LifeRing Secular Recovery. But once I got clear on what that meant, it gave me a powerful framework for understanding myself: my Bipolar diagnosis…
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