LifeRing Online
 

LifeRing Online

What This Brochure Is About.
Can you get clean and sober using online support? Maybe you can! Lots of people have been doing it for years. To find out if online support will work for you, start at www.unhooked.com.

Now in its eighth year (2003) on the Net, www.unhooked.com stands for the 3 "S" of recovery the LifeRing way: Sobriety, Secularity, and Self-Help.

Sobriety: We don't drink or use no matter what. Sobriety is our priority. 

Secularity: The power to stay clean and sober is within you. Everyone is welcome regardless of faith or lack thereof. 

Self-Help: We build our own individualized recovery programs. Plenty of tools and support provided. You can do it your way.

www.unhooked.com is the gateway to a world of support online -the website, chat rooms, email lists, the Forum- and to the schedule of face-to-face meetings. try it... chances are you'll find something that works for you.

Details below...
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Start at www.unhooked.com, your gateway to LifeRing.
On the web continuously since 1996, www.unhooked.com is updated on the average every three days. With thousands of text and graphics files, it's also the doorway to connecting with other clean and sober people in the LifeRing chat rooms, email lists, and the Forum. 

You'll find many hours of sober reading on www.unhooked.com.

  • International meeting list: Face-to-face meetings wherever they exist, with contact information.
  • Booktalk: Dozens of recovery-related books reviewed by people in recovery.
  • NewsWire: Daily news feed about addiction and recovery in science, culture, and politics.
  • Keepers: Some of the best postings culled from the LSRMail list.
  • LifeLines: Quarterly newsmagazine in PDF format about LifeRing members and their stories.
  • Bulletin: News items about LifeRing activities and events.
  • Science: Hundreds of articles from the scientific and popular press about addiction and recovery.
  • Poetry: The experience of addition and recovery told in verse.
  • Gallery: Art by artists in recovery or about recovery-related issues.
  • Music: A collection of popular and classic tunes about addiction and getting free of it.
  • Toolbox: Ideas and practices that have worked to keep their contributors sober.
  • Nicotine: Information and support to quit the addiction that kills more alcholics than alcohol does.
  • Humor: Laugh yourself clean and sober with this irreverent collection of the best and worst.
  • Recreation: Hundreds of ideas about how to fill the time you used to waste drinking/drugging.
  • Food & Bev.: Recipes and nutritional ideas for sobriety.
  • Links: Hundreds of connections to other recovery-related websites.
  • FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions about LifeRing.
  • Philosophy: Brief introduction to the basic LifeRing principles of Sobriety, Secularity, Self-Help.
  • Convenors: A whole section for the people who make LifeRing meetings possible.
  • Treatment Locator: A list of treatment providers who offer choices beyond 12-Step.
  • For Treatment Professionals: Materieals of interest to counselors and physicians.
  • LifeRing Press: A listing of books and other itmes for sale by LifeRing Press.
  • Shop Online: Click through this page to shop online and make a free donationto LifeRing.
  • About: Who we are and how to contact LifeRing by mail, telephone, fax, or email.
LifeRing Online Clubhouse.
A great place to begin with LifeRing. Feel free to ask questions. It's a friendly sober place in cyberspace.

Chat in real time with others who are achieving freedom from drugs/alcohol by a different road that the twelve-step program.
  • Sober chat with a chat host seven days a week at 7pm Pacific / 8pm Mountain / 9pm Central / 10pm Eastern (0300 GMT).
  • Many other hosted chat hours.
  • Instant access to the chat room. No need to register.
  • Completly anonymous. Just think up a nickname and you're in.  
 Click on Chat or go to http://unhooked.com/chat/
LifeRing Email Lists.
Anytime night or day, anywhere in the world, you can make a clean and sober connection with others who understand. Try:
  • LSRMail: Always somebody awake and posting. Your inbox will be full of support for living clean and sober every day.
  • LfeRing E-Pals: For the first-time inquiries. Direct, one-on-one response form a sober participant. 
  • WO List: Women only. Recovery discussion for women.
  • Sober Parent list: special issues facing parents in recovery.
  • Loved One: For people in relationships with people who drink/drug.
  • LSRBody: For people dealing with weight, exercise, and similar issues in recovery.
  • Sober Coffeehouse: For politics, economics, and other subjects that are Off Topic in recovery lists.
  • Geographical email lists: San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Northern Virginia, Midwest, Texas, United Kingdom, and others.
Click on Email or go to http://unhooked.com/lsr/connect.htm

Prefer the bulletin board format? Go to the LifeRing Forum.
Thousands of sober messages organized by topic in a public archive. If you're a Delphi member you're already signed up.


You can download here the brochure in pdf format. Or contact us for an order.

Language
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Contacts
European Office
World Office

Links
unhooked.com
LifeRing Press

Brochures
Welcome To LifeRing
If This Is Day One
Sobriety Is Our Priority
Secular Is Our Middle Name
Self-help is what we do
LifeRing Online
Giving Something Back
We Come Recommended
Food For The Sober Mind
A Different Kind of Workbook
Giving Something Back

Books
Recovery by Choice
How Was Your Week?
Keepers
Presenting LifeRing
Bylaws of LifeRing Secular Recovery

Meetings in Europe
Face-to-Face
Mailing Lists