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For recovery to work, people need choice.
” My IOP program is still heavily NA/AA formatted. They ask me every week if I have a sponsor. I tell them LifeRing doesn’t do official sponsors, but I have accountability peers in 3 different groups there! ” – Ashley, 155 days sober Ashley has recently joined the LifeRing Community. Like many others in programs requiring…
Give the Gift of Hope
Let me introduce you to my family. They’ve been with me since I first stumbled over the front steps and crawled up to my room at 15 through the day I told them I was quitting some 35 years later. The shock on their faces was almost the same both times. “What can this be?…
Thanksgiving Day Open Door Invitation
LifeRing Open Door Invitation THANKSGIVING DAY – online holiday gathering – Zoom Link ● Meeting ID: 912 8539 8966 ● Passcode: lifering Thursday, November 25th from 6:00am to Midnight Pacific Time LifeRing Secular Recovery is offering a place at our table during our open door online Thanksgiving Day Gathering. Convenors from across the…
Recovery and Mindful Eating
Bringing LifeRing to People in Recovery who also struggle with Eating Disorders LifeRing is proud to announce our first special recovery meeting for people who also struggle with eating disorders: MINDFUL EATING Tuesdays at 11:00am Pacific Time Zoom Meeting Link ● Meeting ID: 920 2549 7153 ● Passcode: lifering Sheika is an in-person convenor in…
California Recoverin’ at Café Tropical
LifeRing’s first meeting in Los Angeles, which started in March 2018, has returned to meeting in person at Café Tropical, 2900 W. Sunset Bl., in the beautiful Silver Lake neighborhood, just east of Hollywood. Café Tropical has been a fixture of the local recovery community through successive owners for many years, offering peer-support meetings…
SAD – The Season is Upon Us!
With Daylight Savings Time right around the corner, it’s time to talk SAD. Over 10 Million Americans experience Seasonal Affective Disorder. I’m one of them. Okay, I’m not going to say it’s ironic, or perhaps a little ridiculous, for a person with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) to live in the San Francisco Avenues, but here…
Veterans in Recovery
It is our great honor to introduce LifeRing’s newest online special meeting starting this Veterans Day 2021, November 11th at 4:00pm Pacific: Veterans in Recovery HWYW Online Meeting Thursdays at 4:00pm Pacific Time First Meeting: Veterans Day, November 11, 2021 Veterans in Recovery is a closed meeting and attendance is reserved exclusively for veterans…
LifeRing Volunteers Needed: Peer Alternatives for Addiction 2 (PAL2) Study
RESEARCH PARTICIPATION UPDATE — 11.24.2021: WE’RE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THAT LIFERING PARTICIPATION NUMBERS HAS BEEN MET. THANK YOU!! The Peer Alternatives for Addiction (PAL) Study has received the required number of surveys from LifeRing participants, They have closed the online survey while completing survey verifications. We’ll post an update should new participates be needed…
