Posts by LifeRing

Michael Walsh, Executive Director of LifeRing Canada, writes: We are a non-profit entity with a Board of Directors and are expecting to have charitable status this year. The website is being updated and will offer much more information about the board, LifeRing’s mandate in Canada and other neat gadgets before the end of the summer.…

From Lauretta M., who spearheaded the LifeRing presence at the Pride event in San Francisco June 27 (see advance post here): Thanks all, I have been so busy I haven’t had a chance to properly thank people that helped. Wesley helped  set up. Njon, Rand, Mary hung out with me.  Lynn, and Ernie helped wrap out.…

Kudos to Dianna Narciso, blogger for the website examiner.com of San Francisco (no relation to the Examiner newspaper) for mentioning LifeRing among “rational alternatives to AA” in her article on the 75th anniversary of AA.  Her article asks the important question, “why … AA works for the few it does help out of addiction,” and…

Dale in St. Cloud FL posted this letter to the convenor list: Letter to the Dr. Phil show: Dr. Phil, I was alternately moved by and dismayed with your show today on alcoholic women. You expressed a limited knowledge of the current state of the addiction field. A few comments: You said addiction was a…