800 North Main Street, Edwardsville, Illinois 62025
Step by Step Sunshine Group
3.1 miles away from Gard, Illinois
519 Chapman Street, Edwardsville, Illinois 62025
Friday Night Back to Basic
3.2 miles away from Gard, Illinois
310 South Main Street, Edwardsville, Illinois 62025
Edwardsville Bulldogs Men
3.8 miles away from Gard, Illinois
7372 Marine Road, Edwardsville, Illinois 62025
Monday Night 11th Step Meeting
4.6 miles away from Gard, Illinois
724 East Bethalto Boulevard, Bethalto, Illinois 62010
Sisters in Sobriety Women
4.7 miles away from Gard, Illinois
1802 Madison Avenue, Edwardsville, Illinois 62025
Saturday Night Library Group
4.9 miles away from Gard, Illinois
1914 Esic Drive, Edwardsville, Illinois 62025
Early Bird Group Edwardsville
5.2 miles away from Gard, Illinois
1 Hairpin Drive, Edwardsville, Illinois 62025
The Spiritual Experience
5.2 miles away from Gard, Illinois
180 Cottonwood Road, Glen Carbon, Illinois 62034
Ladies in Recovery Big Book Study Women
6.2 miles away from Gard, Illinois
409 Broadway Avenue, South Roxana, Illinois 62087
Sunday Morning Big Book Group
6.2 miles away from Gard, Illinois
South 14th Street, Wood River, Illinois 62095
East End Park Group
6.2 miles away from Gard, Illinois
3277 Bluff Road, Edwardsville, Illinois 62025
Sunday Night Growth Group
6.4 miles away from Gard, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Gard, 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.