400 North Center Street, Rosewood Heights, Illinois 62018
Experience Strength and Hope Rosewood Heights
68.8 miles away from Ashland, Illinois
504 East 12th Street, Alton, Illinois 62002
North Alton Group
69 miles away from Ashland, Illinois
549 Cimarron Drive, Hamel, Illinois 62046
Hamel Camel Meeting
69.1 miles away from Ashland, Illinois
830 Brown Street, Alton, Illinois 62002
Bikers In Recovery Alton
69.2 miles away from Ashland, Illinois
88 Tomlinson Street, East Alton, Illinois 62024
Barely A Beginning Group
69.4 miles away from Ashland, Illinois
609 Berkshire Boulevard, East Alton, Illinois 62024
Working with Others East Alton
69.4 miles away from Ashland, Illinois
10 East 3rd Street, Alton, Illinois 62002
The Market Street Group
69.5 miles away from Ashland, Illinois
10 East 3rd Street, Alton, Illinois 62002
Alton Wednesday Night Group
69.5 miles away from Ashland, Illinois
101 East Main Street, Alhambra, Illinois 62001
Alhambra Sunshine Group
70.6 miles away from Ashland, Illinois
South 14th Street, Wood River, Illinois 62095
East End Park Group
71.2 miles away from Ashland, Illinois
, Shelbyville, Illinois 62565
Sunday Night Group
72.8 miles away from Ashland, Illinois
409 Broadway Avenue, South Roxana, Illinois 62087
Sunday Morning Big Book Group
73.4 miles away from Ashland, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Ashland, Illinois as the funding is accepted on a donation from its members.
AA is one of most commonly known programs in the United States and around the world that helps countless men and women achieve sobriety in the pursuit of lifelong recovery. They are usually small groups of recovering alcoholics who share their recovery journey and are there to help new members get sober.
Alcohol Addiction is a disease of the mind, body, and soul. AA has curated meetings to help with each individual piece of your sobriety. If you are in search of a meeting on the first three steps, you should choose a beginner meeting. If you are looking to get more in touch with your spiritual side, attending a meditation meeting would be an ideal choice. If you are in search of stories of inspiration for overcoming alcoholism, a speaker meeting is a good starting point. If you are through your steps and are now working on the traditions of AA, a tradition meetings will help. If you want to attend a single gender group, you can go to a men’s or women's meeting where you won't find anyone of the opposite gender there. The fact of the matter is there is a meeting for everyone. Try different meetings out until you find one that fits your needs.
In order to benefit the most from your first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting you should remain open minded. Everyone had preconceived notions of what these meetings were and generally it is the same misconception. The best advice I ever got was to sit down, shut up, listen to the message, and humbly ask for help. Regardless of the meeting, there will be the same message of recovering from hopelessness. The process of recovering from that hopeless state is in asking for help from another person suffering from alcoholism which you will find in any meeting you choose to start with.