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Robert Stump
  • Dec 15, 2018
  • 1 min

LifeRing fundraising drive ends December 20!

Hello, LifeRing’s annual fundraising drive ends in less than 1 week! With the support of our members and friends/family, we’ve raised over $6,000 so far. This is a great start! We’ll be able to fund more new meetings and increase our efforts in spreading awareness about LifeRing. Thank you so much to those who have donated. We have less than 1 week left to reach our $15,000 goal. Will you help us reach it? As a small non-profit, any support we receive truly goes a long wa
Robert Stump
  • Nov 27, 2018
  • 1 min

Help LifeRing Give the Gift of Sobriety

I know you’re probably flooded with Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Giving Tuesday emails. So I’ll keep this short. Will you help LifeRing give the gift of sobriety? There are so many people in dire need of addiction recovery. But they don’t even know LifeRing exists. We want to change that. We’re on a mission to grow, which means more meetings in more cities, and more people receiving the support they need. But we can’t do this without you. If LifeRing has positively changed
Robert Stump
  • Nov 10, 2018
  • 2 min

News from the North—LifeRing Secular Recovery-Canada

The following was written by Jamie Itterman LifeRing Secular Recovery-Canada November 2018 Canada Regional Representative: Jamie Itterman Vancouver Hub: Jamie Itterman Victoria Hub: Calla Raglan Our meetings in Canada have continued to have regular attendance as last reported. We have some people that come regularly for a while but eventually move on for whatever reasons, back to their own communities or on to other options. Overall, attendance is steady with all meetings hav
Robert Stump
  • Dec 23, 2017
  • 1 min

“Alcoholics Anonymous Struggles to Stay Relevant as Secular Programs Gain Momentum”

A recent issue of the Colorado online newspaper Boulder Weekly carried an article about LifeRing that made our hearts beat a little faster: “Alcoholics Anonymous struggles to stay relevant as secular programs gain momentum.” See the article by clicking HERE. The piece featured the founder of LifeRing in the Denver/Boulder area, Kathleen Gargan, who has served LifeRing as the starter and convenor of many meetings, a former Executive Director and Board member of the organizatio
Robert Stump
  • Jul 15, 2016
  • 1 min

LifeRing Expands in Connecticut; New Meeting in Wilton

The fifth LifeRing meeting in Connecticut will open its doors on Tuesday, July 19th, in Wilton, CT. The new meeting will be held at the Comstock Community Center, Room 31, 180 School Road, Wilton, CT 06897 at 6 pm. The Wilton meeting will join four other LifeRing meetings held at the Greenwich hospital. Learn more about LifeRing in Connecticut on the LifeRing Connecticut website: #Selfdirection #health #Sobriety #alcoholism #WiltonCT #tools #NewMeetings #Recovery #Invitation
Robert Stump
  • Jul 12, 2016
  • 1 min

New LifeRing Meeting in Richmond, CA

LifeRing is very pleased to announce a new meeting starting Wednesday, July 13, in Richmond, California. The meeting will be held at Kaiser Richmond Chemical Dependency Services at the Richmond Medical Center, 901 Nevin Ave., Building 2, 3rd Floor, in Conference Room H starting at 7 pm. Future meetings will be in the same place on Wednesdays at 7. The meeting convenor will be Larry L. who has, for the past 3 years, been convening a LifeRing meeting he began in Berkeley, CA. T
Robert Stump
  • Feb 6, 2015
  • 1 min

New LifeRing Meeting to Start in Berkeley, CA

A new LifeRing meeting is coming to Berkeley, CA, the city next door to the LifeRing headquarters in Oakland. The meeting will be on Thursdays starting Feb. 12th at the Alta Bates Herrick Hospital on Dwight Ave. near Shattuck St. Meeting time is 7:30 pm. New LifeRing convenor Larry L. reports that “it is in the CC Conference room on Level A at Herrick. Take the “B” elevator to Level A.” The Herrick facility has long hosted LifeRing meetings and has been the site of several An
Robert Stump
  • Jun 12, 2014
  • 4 min

Martin Nicolaus’s Prepared Remarks for the 2014 LifeRing Annual Conference

Below is the talk that LifeRing’s founding leader wanted to give at our recent Annual Conference. Unfortunately, Martin Nicolaus ran into car trouble which you can read about on his personal blog Here. So what follows is what Marty would have presented to the Annual Conference had he made it on time: I get a great warm feeling from seeing the caliber of the people who are taking the lead in serving the organization today.  The basic principles of LifeRing address urgent socie
Robert Stump
  • Jun 3, 2014
  • 1 min

Dr. Candice Shelby’s Presentation on “Biocoding” Posted on Website

What I would like to consider specifically today is the way in which the processes of addiction and recovery are connected to processes of meaning development and change. The level of meanings that I’m going to focus on here are at the semantic, psychological, and social levels. These meanings are encoded into individuals through the interaction of their highly complex organic systems with the highly complex environments in which they are embedded. The correlation of the mean
Robert Stump
  • Jun 2, 2014
  • 4 min

LifeRing Annual Conference a Big Success

Friday’s event was at the Arlene Francis Center, a funky, warm-hearted facility located on the wrong side of the tracks along with several shelters for homeless people. There, the early arrivals met for socializing and a convenor workshop. The socializing, as always happens at LifeRing gatherings, was lively and very talkative. There was a presentation on a large screen of a number of greetings sent by members or groups of members, both snapshots and brief videos. Despite a f