225 North Cherry Avenue, Freeport, Illinois 61032
9am Sobriety Group
30.2 miles away from Chana, Illinois
Maintenence Drive, Poplar Grove, Illinois 61065
New Horizons
30.6 miles away from Chana, Illinois
2700 West Stephenson Street, Freeport, Illinois 61032
Crossroads Group Freeport
31.5 miles away from Chana, Illinois
402 South Center Road, Durand, Illinois 61024
Medina Group
31.5 miles away from Chana, Illinois
10816 Main Street, Roscoe, Illinois 61073
Roscoe Recovery
32.1 miles away from Chana, Illinois
123 South County Line Road, Maple Park, Illinois 60151
Big Book First 164 Group
32.1 miles away from Chana, Illinois
201 Illinois 64, Lanark, Illinois 61046
Rolling Hills Progress Center
32.5 miles away from Chana, Illinois
318 West Main Street, Rockton, Illinois 61072
Muddy River
33.4 miles away from Chana, Illinois
203 West Washington Street, Marengo, Illinois 60152
The Warriors
36.4 miles away from Chana, Illinois
223 East Grove, Hampshire, Illinois 60140
Hampshire Oaks
36.4 miles away from Chana, Illinois
119 East Washington Street, Marengo, Illinois 60152
Misfits
36.5 miles away from Chana, Illinois
411 South Main Street, Pearl City, Illinois 61062
Pearl City Open
36.5 miles away from Chana, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Chana, 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.