414 West Main Street, Collinsville, Illinois 62234
Sobriety in Blum
26.4 miles away from Burgess, Illinois
608 North Van Buren Street, Litchfield, Illinois 62056
A Day at a Time Group
27 miles away from Burgess, Illinois
201 West Chestnut Street, Gillespie, Illinois 62033
Gillespie Group West Chestnut Street
27.4 miles away from Burgess, Illinois
7517 North Illinois Street, Caseyville, Illinois 62232
Blue Collar Sobriety Group Mens
27.4 miles away from Burgess, Illinois
107 West Elm Street, Gillespie, Illinois 62033
Gillespie Group
27.7 miles away from Burgess, Illinois
724 East Bethalto Boulevard, Bethalto, Illinois 62010
Sisters in Sobriety Women
27.9 miles away from Burgess, Illinois
368 North Park Street, Hoyleton, Illinois 62803
Big Book Study Group Hoyleton
28 miles away from Burgess, Illinois
114 South Washington Street, Bunker Hill, Illinois 62014
Bunker Hill Group
28.2 miles away from Burgess, Illinois
504 North Poplar Street, Salem, Illinois 62881
Friday Night at Sobriety Center
28.3 miles away from Burgess, Illinois
409 Broadway Avenue, South Roxana, Illinois 62087
Sunday Morning Big Book Group
28.8 miles away from Burgess, Illinois
404 North Pleasant Avenue, Centralia, Illinois 62801
Little Church Group
29 miles away from Burgess, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Burgess, 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.