894 West Riverside Boulevard, Rockford, Illinois 61103
Upper Room
28.9 miles away from Forreston, Illinois
401 North Cherry Street, Morrison, Illinois 61270
Morrison Group
29.5 miles away from Forreston, Illinois
4215 East State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61108
Healthy Solutions
29.5 miles away from Forreston, Illinois
5403 North 2nd Street, Loves Park, Illinois 61111
Loves Park Group
29.6 miles away from Forreston, Illinois
430 Merrill Avenue, Loves Park, Illinois 61111
Augury
29.6 miles away from Forreston, Illinois
502 3rd Street, Savanna, Illinois 61074
1st Presbyterian Church Mondays at 8pm
29.6 miles away from Forreston, Illinois
900 North 2nd Street, Rochelle, Illinois 61068
Rochelle Hospital
29.8 miles away from Forreston, Illinois
1100 Calvin Road, Rochelle, Illinois 61068
1st Presbyterian Church
29.8 miles away from Forreston, Illinois
4848 Turner Street, Rockford, Illinois 61107
Rainbow Recovery
30 miles away from Forreston, Illinois
903 North Caron Road, Rochelle, Illinois 61068
St Patricks Comm Center
30.2 miles away from Forreston, Illinois
7605 North 2nd Street, Machesney Park, Illinois 61115
Three Legacies Group
30.5 miles away from Forreston, Illinois
960 U.S. 52, Amboy, Illinois 61310
Emmanuel Lutheran Church Wednesdays
30.7 miles away from Forreston, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Forreston, 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.