319 East 75th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60619
Evans Ave Early Birds
18.4 miles away from Darien, Illinois
659 South River Street, Aurora, Illinois 60506
Happy Hour Group Aurora
18.4 miles away from Darien, Illinois
4704 West Irving Park Road, Chicago, Illinois 60641
The Breakfast Table
18.4 miles away from Darien, Illinois
4704 West Irving Park Road, Chicago, Illinois 60641
Thursday Night Big Book Study
18.4 miles away from Darien, Illinois
8 East Wilson Street, Batavia, Illinois 60510
Willingness Group
18.5 miles away from Darien, Illinois
305 West Black Road, Shorewood, Illinois 60404
New Hope Step Group
18.6 miles away from Darien, Illinois
732 Prairie Street, Aurora, Illinois 60506
Luigis Sat AA
18.6 miles away from Darien, Illinois
119 West Wise Road, Schaumburg, Illinois 60193
Big Book Priority Discussion
18.6 miles away from Darien, Illinois
2442 West Moffat Street, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Silent Recovery
18.6 miles away from Darien, Illinois
15 Oak Street, North Aurora, Illinois 60542
California Big Book
18.7 miles away from Darien, Illinois
1150 West Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607
West Loop Big Book
18.7 miles away from Darien, Illinois
1500 North Hoyne Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60622
Hoyne and LeMoyne Wednesday
18.7 miles away from Darien, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Darien, 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.