About the organisation
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LifeRing Secular Recovery is an abstinence-based recovery organisation with no steps, no sponsors, and no religious content. Meetings are conversational: people talk about their week, what worked and what nearly did not, and help each other strengthen what LifeRing calls the sober self.
It is free, anonymous, and open to anyone who wants to stop drinking or using, however they got here.
LifeRing suits people who want peer support without a programme handed to them. There is no required literature and no higher power; each member builds a personal recovery plan from what works for them. It attracts people who bounced off the language of twelve-step rooms but still want the company of others doing the same thing, and people who happily attend both.
The classic LifeRing meeting opens with the question, how was your week? Sharing is conversational and crosstalk is allowed, so people respond to each other rather than only speaking in turn. Meetings you can join from the UK run online through the week; each meeting's own page carries the joining details.
LifeRing sits alongside SMART Recovery and Women for Sobriety as the main secular alternatives in these listings. SMART is tools-and-worksheets practical, Women for Sobriety is for women and built on affirmations, and LifeRing is the conversational one. All three are abstinence-based, and none conflicts with also attending a twelve-step fellowship.