Is
LifeRing for you???
Twelve-step recovery helps many people, but it was
never meant for everyone.
People who want to maintain abstinence from alcohol and other
addictive substances deserve a choice.
LifeRing
optimizes the active ingredient of every organized recovery effort:
peer support. LifeRings are small circles with a conversational
format, focusing on current events in participants' lives. Feedback
(crosstalk) is encouraged.
Meetings
are free of religious content. Your faith or disbelief remain
private. There's no "higher power" required for LifeRing
recovery. We end meetings with a round of applause for our progress.
The
LifeRing program features an open architecture: how you maintain your
sobriety and how you rebuild your life is your choice. There are no
Steps and no sponsors. Building on the abstinence platform, you
construct your own individual recovery program in a cooperative
environment. Because you design and build it yourself, you
become deeply invested in your recovery, and you grow into a
resilient, confident, and independent person who lives life to the
fullest, free of alcohol and other addictive drugs.
LifeRing
is not for everyone. If you're inclined to be a rebel or a
misfit, if you tend to think outside the box, if you're self-reliant,
if you question authority, if you're willing to give and take with
other people, and you want to stop drinking and using addictive drugs,
then LifeRing may be the recovery path of choice for you.
Pittsburgh
meeting:
Wednesday, 7:30 - 8:30 p.m.,
566 Trenton Avenue,
Pittsburgh, PA
15221 (private home, Wilkinsburg neighborhood),
contact Bill M. at
412-371-8570,
or PITNews1@aol.com,
for directions.
