300 North Elmhurst Avenue, Mount Prospect, Illinois 60056
Over Easy
13.6 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
507 West North Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60610
Speaker Closed
13.6 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
507 West North Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60610
Steps Traditions Mechanical
13.6 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
407 North Main Street, Mount Prospect, Illinois 60056
Mt Prospect 1
13.7 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
1711 North Cleveland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60614
NBS Step Study
13.7 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
1650 West Foster Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60640
Pass It On Chicago
13.7 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
2328 Central Road, Glenview, Illinois 60025
Serenity Seekers Glenview
13.7 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
130 South Roselle Road, Schaumburg, Illinois 60193
NW Suburbs Quad A
13.8 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
2101 Central Road, Glenview, Illinois 60025
Johns Park 24 Hour A Day Book Meeting
13.8 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
656 West Barry Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60657
Alcoholics Anonymous for Atheists and Agnostics Quad A
13.8 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
615 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60657
AA for Humanists Atheists and Agnostics
13.9 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Hillside, 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.