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https://www.reddit.com/r/stopdrinking/
About: This subreddit is a place to motivate each other to control or stop drinking. We welcome anyone who wishes to join in by asking for advice, sharing our experiences and stories, or just encouraging someone who is trying to quit or cut down. Please post only when sober; you’re welcome to read in the meanwhile.
Population: 259k members
Remote Recovery Facebook Group
About: Remote Recovery was created as a way for people in any abstinence focused program of recovery to connect and share support, solution, and resources remotely. This group is not affiliated with any program, 12 Step or otherwise. This group is for all people seeking support in abstinence based recovery.
Population: 28.6k members
About: Just some sisters trying to help other sisters not slip and fall back into that same stupid pattern of insanity. We are here to help lift each other up, encourage one another, and just be there to lend an ear, and a helping hand. We are NOT here to judge! We are spreading awareness that we DO recover, one day at a time! Keep in mind addiction comes in many forms, not just drugs or alcohol. I.e. food, sex, shopping, gambling etc. Feel free to post whatever you would like. You do NOT have to be an addict to become a member.
About: She Recovers offers tons of online support for women in recovery including Facebook groups for women of color, women first responders, healthcare professionals, moms of kids with higher needs, and more!
Affordable Online Support Communities
Starting at $25 a month (aka what you used to spend on booze every night), you'll get access to monthly mini-courses, a super supportive PRIVATE community (not based on Facebook), and 12+ meetings a month! I am currently in this community and I LOVE IT!
For $24 a month, you'll get access to a private and unsearchable Café RE Facebook group, the option to be paired with an accountability partner, access to over 80 zoom chats per month (2-5 chats per day), two 6 week courses per year, and discounts to Recovery Elevator events/retreats/conferences
Virtual Meetings
About: The OIAA Directory features 1,000+ meetings worldwide, listed below and adjusted for your timezone. You can filter by day, format, or language—or search by meeting name. You can also change timezones, or select the filter, “24/7”, for meetings (email, chat, etc) available anytime.
Women for Sobriety (WFS) is the first peer-support program tailored specifically for women overcoming substance use disorders (SUDs). The WFS New Life Program is inclusive of all women, regardless of financial resources, race, religion, abilities, and backgrounds. With both in-person and online meetings, the New Life Program provides supportive, empowering, secular, and life-affirming principles that address the unique needs and challenges of women in recovery.
About: Dharma Recovery is about using buddhist practices and principles to heal the suffering of addition. They offer tons of online meetings based on region.
About: LifeRing is about providing an abstinence-based, secular, and self-empowered addiction recovery pathway through meetings and support networts.
About: SMART stands for Self-Management and Recovery Training. The SMART approach is secular and science-based, using cognitive behavioral therapy and non-confrontational motivational methods.
About: Refuge Recovery is a practice, a process, a set of tools, a treatment and a path to healing addiction and the suffering caused by addiction. The main inspiration and guiding philosophy for the Refuge Recovery program are the teachings of Siddharta Gautama, a man who lived in India twenty-five hundred years ago. Siddharta was a radical psychologist and spiritual revolutionary. Our program does not ask anyone to believe anything, only to trust the process and to do the hard work of recovery. Our program is a systematic approach to treating and recovering from all forms of addiction using the traditional buddhist practices of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.
FOR FRIENDS & FAMILY OF ALCOHOLICS
https://www.reddit.com/r/AlAnon/
This subreddit offers insight and support for people who are being impacted by someone else’s drinking.