207 North Prospect Avenue, Park Ridge, Illinois 60068
Share and Care
18.4 miles away from Lake Bluff, Illinois
West Industrial Avenue, Lake Barrington, Illinois 60010
As Bill Sees It
18.4 miles away from Lake Bluff, Illinois
405 West State Road, Island Lake, Illinois 60042
How and Why Meeting
18.4 miles away from Lake Bluff, Illinois
130 Venice Road, Lakemoor, Illinois 60050
Laughing Waters 12 and 12
18.5 miles away from Lake Bluff, Illinois
420 West County Line Road, Barrington, Illinois 60010
Barr Pals
18.7 miles away from Lake Bluff, Illinois
311 Depot Street, Antioch, Illinois 60002
Antioch Recovery Club
18.8 miles away from Lake Bluff, Illinois
1803 83rd Street, Kenosha, Wisconsin 53143
First Presbyterian Church
19 miles away from Lake Bluff, Illinois
557 Lake Street, Antioch, Illinois 60002
St. Peter Catholic Church
19 miles away from Lake Bluff, Illinois
23 South Street, Fox Lake, Illinois 60020
Discussion Keep it Simple Open
19.1 miles away from Lake Bluff, Illinois
1006 Gillick Street, Park Ridge, Illinois 60068
Early Birds Park Ridge
19.2 miles away from Lake Bluff, Illinois
2001 80th Street, Kenosha, Wisconsin 53143
St. Mary's Lutheran Church
19.3 miles away from Lake Bluff, Illinois
535 Custer Avenue, Evanston, Illinois 60202
Cuckoos Nest
19.3 miles away from Lake Bluff, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Lake Bluff, 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.