510 East Oakton Street, Des Plaines, Illinois 60018
Beginners Group
243.5 miles away from Gard, Illinois
1424 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610
Group 6
243.5 miles away from Gard, Illinois
330 West Golf Road, Arlington Heights, Illinois 60005
Monday Nite Mixed
243.5 miles away from Gard, Illinois
1711 North Cleveland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60614
NBS Step Study
243.5 miles away from Gard, Illinois
9009 West Algonquin Road, Algonquin, Illinois 60102
120853
243.6 miles away from Gard, Illinois
2311 North Southport Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60614
St. Josaphats Wednesday Night Big Book Discussion Meeting
243.6 miles away from Gard, Illinois
2210 Jackson Street, Anderson, Indiana 46016
Womens Group - 83
243.6 miles away from Gard, Illinois
100 East Beam Street, Porter, Indiana 46304
Porter 100 East Beam Street
243.6 miles away from Gard, Illinois
2100 North Sheffield Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60614
AA Step and Tradition
243.6 miles away from Gard, Illinois
332 West 11th Street, Anderson, Indiana 46016
Stop The Insanity
243.6 miles away from Gard, Illinois
108 South Chestnut Street, Lamoni, Iowa 50140
South Iowa Pacific Group
243.7 miles away from Gard, Illinois
113 1st Avenue West, Cascade, Iowa 52033
Cascade & Area Group #105344
243.8 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.