3465 North Macarthur Road, Decatur, Illinois 62526
Beginners Group
26.5 miles away from Dawson, Illinois
317 West Decatur Street, Decatur, Illinois 62522
Loves Home Group
26.8 miles away from Dawson, Illinois
269 West Eldorado Street, Decatur, Illinois 62522
Back To Basics
26.8 miles away from Dawson, Illinois
201 West North Street, Decatur, Illinois 62522
Unity At Six
26.8 miles away from Dawson, Illinois
204 West Prairie Avenue, Decatur, Illinois 62522
Sunlight Group Decatur
26.8 miles away from Dawson, Illinois
130 West Eldorado Street, Decatur, Illinois 62522
Road To Recovery
26.9 miles away from Dawson, Illinois
114 East Walnut Street, Mason City, Illinois 62664
Mason City C
27.4 miles away from Dawson, Illinois
1176 East Riverside Avenue, Decatur, Illinois 62521
Hump Day
27.8 miles away from Dawson, Illinois
State Route 4, Virden, Illinois
Discussion Virden
28.7 miles away from Dawson, Illinois
32946 State Route 4, Girard, Illinois 62640
Virden Area Group
30.9 miles away from Dawson, Illinois
345 West Main Street, Mount Zion, Illinois 62549
Mt Zion Study Group
31.7 miles away from Dawson, Illinois
719 West White Street, Clinton, Illinois 61727
CLINTON
33.3 miles away from Dawson, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Dawson, 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.