LifeRing Secular Recovery
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LifeRing Secular Recovery (LifeRing or LSR) is a secular, non-profit organization providing peer-run addiction recovery groups for anyone with a desire to recover from alcohol and drug addiction or who are in a relationship with an addict or alcoholic. LifeRing split from Secular Organizations for Sobriety in 1997, and incorporated officially in 1999. LifeRing has meetings in the United States, Canada and Europe.[1][2][3]
LifeRing encourages an experimental approach to maintaining abstinence from addictive drugs and its members are free to incorporate ideas from any source they find useful, including other addiction recovery groups. LifeRing encourages members to use relapses as learning experiences and discourages admonishing members for relapsing. The LifeRing philosophy is expressed in three principles: Sobriety, Secularity, and Self-Help. Sobriety is defined as abstinence from alcohol and addictive drugs (prescription or otherwise). According to the principle of Secularity LifeRing meetings do not open with prayers and members are not encouraged to believe in a Supreme Being. The principle of Self-Help encourages each member to develop their own program of recovery. Unlike twelve-step programs, members do not have sponsors, but are encouraged to help each other. Meetings are ran by peers, not lead by professionals, and members are allowed to give each other feedback during them.[2][4]
LifeRing uses the book How Was Your Week[5] which replaced the Handbook of Secular Recovery[6] which replaced the text used in Secular Organizations for Sobriety, the Sobriety Handbook.[7]
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- ^ White, William L. (2005). "Part I: Addiction Basics: Chapter 4 History of Drug Policy, Treatment, and Recovery", in Coombs, Robert Holman: Addiction Counseling Review: Preparing for Comprehensive, Certification and Licensing Examinations. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 81-104.
- ^ a b White, William L.. "Management of the High-Risk DUI Offender" (pdf).
- ^ Farrell, Jodi Mailander. "Options abound for people seeking treatment", Newport News, Virginia: Daily Press, 2006-09-06. Retrieved on 2008-04-25.
- ^ Solomon, Melanie (2005). "Section I: Self-Help Groups, Part One: Total Abstinence, LifeRing", AA: Not the Only Way: Your One Stop Resource Guide to 12-Step Alternatives. Anchorage, Alaska: Capalo Press, 27. ISBN 0976247992. OCLC 77565735.
- ^ Nicolaus, Martin (2003). How was your week? : bringing people together in recovery the LifeRing way : a handbook. Oakland, California: LifeRing Press. ISBN 0965942945. OCLC 57334759.
- ^ LifeRing (2000). Handbook of Secular Recovery. Oakland, California: LifeRing Press. OCLC 46597744.
- ^ Secular Organizations for Sobriety (1997). Sobriety handbook, the SOS way : an introduction to Secular Organizations for Sobriety / Save Our Selves (SOS). Oakland, California: LifeRing Press. ISBN 0965942902. OCLC 37853736.
