307 West Clay Street, Collinsville, Illinois 62234
Honesty Group
60.2 miles away from Brownstown, Illinois
414 West Main Street, Collinsville, Illinois 62234
Sobriety in Blum
60.3 miles away from Brownstown, Illinois
400 North Center Street, Rosewood Heights, Illinois 62018
Experience Strength and Hope Rosewood Heights
60.9 miles away from Brownstown, Illinois
409 Broadway Avenue, South Roxana, Illinois 62087
Sunday Morning Big Book Group
61 miles away from Brownstown, Illinois
1835 East Walnut Street, Chatham, Illinois 62629
Sunlight Underground
61.1 miles away from Brownstown, Illinois
South 14th Street, Wood River, Illinois 62095
East End Park Group
61.1 miles away from Brownstown, Illinois
7517 North Illinois Street, Caseyville, Illinois 62232
Blue Collar Sobriety Group Mens
61.4 miles away from Brownstown, Illinois
629 East Spruce Street, Chatham, Illinois 62629
Chatham TGIF Group
61.4 miles away from Brownstown, Illinois
3465 North Macarthur Road, Decatur, Illinois 62526
Serenity Seekers
61.4 miles away from Brownstown, Illinois
3465 North Macarthur Road, Decatur, Illinois 62526
Beginners Group
61.4 miles away from Brownstown, Illinois
88 Tomlinson Street, East Alton, Illinois 62024
Barely A Beginning Group
62.1 miles away from Brownstown, Illinois
609 Berkshire Boulevard, East Alton, Illinois 62024
Working with Others East Alton
62.2 miles away from Brownstown, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Brownstown, 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.