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…

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Give the Gift of Hope

Hope is Where The Heart Is 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. For 35 years, my family lived quietly with the…

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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…

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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…

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