400 West Spring Street, South Elgin, Illinois 60177
South Elgin Friday Night Fellowship
25.3 miles away from Mettawa, Illinois
2311 North Southport Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60614
St. Josaphats Wednesday Night Big Book Discussion Meeting
25.3 miles away from Mettawa, Illinois
2601 West North Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Gratitude Chicago
25.3 miles away from Mettawa, Illinois
4314 39th Avenue, Kenosha, Wisconsin 53144
Shalom Center of Interfaith
25.4 miles away from Mettawa, Illinois
802 East Geneva Road, Wheaton, Illinois 60187
Wheaton Sunday Night
25.4 miles away from Mettawa, Illinois
1336 South Villa Avenue, Villa Park, Illinois 60181
Genesis Group 2
25.6 miles away from Mettawa, Illinois
155 East Brush Hill Road, Elmhurst, Illinois 60126
Couples in Recovery Group
25.6 miles away from Mettawa, Illinois
493 Forest Avenue, Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137
Glen Ellyn Wednesday Night
25.6 miles away from Mettawa, Illinois
10308 North Main Street, Richmond, Illinois 60071
Ceased Fighting Group
25.6 miles away from Mettawa, Illinois
7329 Harrison Street, Forest Park, Illinois 60130
Diehard Bleacher Bums
25.6 miles away from Mettawa, Illinois
815 South Finley Road, Lombard, Illinois 60148
41 Atheists Agnostics and Everyone
25.7 miles away from Mettawa, Illinois
1511 Wilmot Avenue, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin 53181
Calvary Congregational Church
25.7 miles away from Mettawa, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Mettawa, 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.