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Credit Rumble Viral. Thursday was Thanksgiving and my first real dinner party since beginning recovery. We’ve hosted parties for up to 20 people in a 400 square foot diving (dining/living) room, but yesterday was exclusively for besties and their loved ones. This year, my friend’s husband came to our house drunk. Not quite passing-out drunk,…

Reading the recent post on honeybees made me think back to how I started out with LifeRing many years ago. There were no face-to-face meetings in my area (yet) and no online meetings at the time, so I joined one of the email groups, LSRmail, and then later, LSRsafe. This was an ideal way for…

One of the major tenets of LifeRing’s secular approach to sobriety is the revolutionary (some would call it rebellious) concept of “choice in recovery.” What does that mean? It means that we are anything but a “one-size-fits-all” support system that not only makes room for the individual sober self living inside all of us but…