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More than a few recovering alcoholics/addicts, myself included, have compared their time in active addiction to getting into the ring with “Iron” Mike Tyson, and for good reason. The former undisputed heavyweight boxing champion of the world (1987 – 1990) was widely known during his heyday for crushing his opponents, sometimes in as little as…

This was posted recently on a LifeRing Email group by a longtime member: In a nutshell, my sobriety support group is LifeRing Secular Recovery. — the bottom line is to not drink or otherwise use- no matter what — we believe we have all the power over our addiction as long as we do not…

A recent post from a LifeRing email group sums up the experience of many upon finding LifeRing:     Without being too dramatic, my childhood years were pretty traumatic.  I was shuttled around from orphanage to orphanage, foster home to foster home, till I was in my teens.  The resounding message that I received from all…

A member of, and  convenor for, LifeRing has written an article that was published in “Secular News Daily,” an online magazine. The article, entitled  “When it comes to Sobriety, a Choice of Support” was written by Byron Kerr, who has started several LifeRing meetings in the Santa Rosa, CA, area and is now concentrating his…