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Dick Sprague, a LifeRing Convenor in Tabernash (Grand County), CO, provided information for an article in SkyHiNews “serving Winter Park, Granby, and Grand County, CO.” The article can be read in full by clicking Here. Sprague is mentioned in the article and provided most or all of the information for it. Here’s a sample: “LifeRing…
A LifeRing Keeper: Lessons Learned After 7 Months of Sobriety
Below is a recent post to one of LifeRing’s email groups, written by a member expressing her great pleasure at reaching 7 months of continuous sobriety. It contains much wisdom that I wanted to share. It speaks both to those new to recovery and to veterans. — Craig Whalley Hello all. Altho I don’t post…
Drunk Drivers Not the Only Danger on the Nation’s Highways
We all know about the dangers of drunk driving, and about the draconian penalties imposed on drivers who test above a certain level for the presence of alcohol in their blood. The level considered “impaired” has dropped considerably over the years and may drop again to a level that catches even relatively small amounts of…
A Round or Two with Mike Tyson
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…
A LifeRing Keeper: Getting and Staying Sober
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 LifeRing Keeper: “I’m not Wrong, I’m not Insane, I’m not Powerless”
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…
LifeRing Member Pens “Choice of Support” Article in Online Magazine
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…
A Doctor Who “Gets it” About Offering Choice in Recovery
A recent article in ASAMagazine, an online publication that bills itself as “The Voice of Addiction Medicine” features words that are music to the ears of those who believe in the need for doctors and treatment professionals to offer real choices to their patients and clients. “I have seen many of my colleagues view 12-step…
Video of Martin Nicolaus Lecture Returns to this Website
A video of a lecture given by LifeRing’s founding leader Martin Nicolaus in Victoria, Canada, is now available again. The talk was given to a group of medical professionals at ‘Psychiatric Grand Rounds’ at the Eric Martin Institution in October of 2010. It provides a very good look at the intellectual underpinning of LifeRing. view…