500 Wilcox Street, Joliet, Illinois 60435
St Francis Sunday Open Meeting
24.5 miles away from Batavia, Illinois
200 North Main Street, Mount Prospect, Illinois 60056
Recovery 5
24.5 miles away from Batavia, Illinois
120 Woodlawn Avenue, Joliet, Illinois 60435
St. Paul Group
24.6 miles away from Batavia, Illinois
206 North Midland Avenue, Joliet, Illinois 60435
Steel City Group
24.6 miles away from Batavia, Illinois
400 Opatrny Drive, Fox River Grove, Illinois 60021
Cary Grove Step
24.6 miles away from Batavia, Illinois
3435 Hollywood Avenue, Brookfield, Illinois 60513
Wednesday Night Castaways
24.7 miles away from Batavia, Illinois
255 Briargate Road, Cary, Illinois 60013
Park District Group
24.7 miles away from Batavia, Illinois
407 North Main Street, Mount Prospect, Illinois 60056
Mt Prospect 1
24.8 miles away from Batavia, Illinois
450 Illinois 22, Barrington, Illinois 60010
Sunday Morning Newcomers
24.9 miles away from Batavia, Illinois
1535 East Oakton Street, Des Plaines, Illinois 60018
Polish Speaking
25 miles away from Batavia, Illinois
710 West Marion Street, Joliet, Illinois 60436
Bunch of Wax
25.2 miles away from Batavia, Illinois
93 Berkshire Drive, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014
One Day at a Time
25.5 miles away from Batavia, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Batavia, 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.