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Study Finds Most People in the World Don’t Drink Alcohol
An article on the website www.sciencedaily.com says, “A new study by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that alcohol is now the third leading cause of the global burden of disease and injury, despite the fact most adults worldwide abstain from drinking.” The article goes on to cite more material from the…
A LifeRing Keeper: A Poem From an Irish Convenor
Philip H., a LifeRing convenor in Belfast, Northern Ireland, wrote this chilling poem about his late former wife: Powerlessness Two dead mice. One fresh, one slowly desiccating. Its head chewed, eyeless. A new lock on the dingy door and new keys. Inside the wooden floor was covered in something dark, like tar. A chair upended.…
Spring LifeRing Newsletter Published
Carola Ziermann, editor, has published the newest LifeRing Newsletter. This quarter’s edition feature stories about the upcoming LifeRing Annual Meeting in Denver at the end of May, along with an explanation of proposed bylaw changes that will enable elected delegates to vote on candidates and issues raised at the LifeRing Congress, held on the last…
Martin Nicolaus Talks About LifeRing
Late last year, LifeRing’s founding leader, Martin Nicolaus, addressed a group of San Francisco Bay Area meeting convenors. His words, as usual, eloquently present the LifeRing approach.
“Quitting Smoking for Good”
LifeRing doesn’t treat smoking like alcohol and other drugs. We recognize the severe damage it does, and it clearly is an addiction, but we havc all we can do dealing with drinking and drug use. Still, it’s worthwhile to remind ourselves that addiction is addiction, whether it’s alcohol, nicotine or caffeine. Here is an informative…
A LifeRing Keeper: 400 Sober Days
From a member of a LifeRing email group: I joined LifeRing on December 9th of 2011, it was day 3 for me . I was miserable! Guilt, shame , self-loathing, remorse and despair had become my constant companions. I felt like I was in a state of perpetual grief; I couldn’t think of one good…
Spreading the Word About Alternatives to AA
Increasing the awareness of AA alternatives is a slow and frustrating task. Headway is made one small step at a time. A recent article on the Huffington Post website marks one of those steps, this one authored by Tom Horvath, President of SMART Recovery. He writes: “Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and other 12-step groups are the…
A Solstice Essay
A message from LifeRing member Mahala Kephart: A few days late, but as I thought about how important having a secular choice in recovery has been to me, I thought maybe I’d riff on light and dark today. Whether you’re in Sweden or South Africa, the Yukon or Tierra del Fuego, or somewhere in between,…
LifeRing’s Winter Newsletter Just Published
The latest edition of the LifeRing Newsletter is hot off the press! Edited by LifeRing board member Carola Z., this edition features articles on topics ranging from the value of volunteering to proposed changes in the LifeRing bylaws. There are also articles on surviving the holiday season and LifeRing’s presence at a recent gathering of…