131 North Main Street, Glen Carbon, Illinois 62034
Morning Miracles
47.2 miles away from Patoka, Illinois
186 Summit Avenue, Glen Carbon, Illinois 62034
Thursday Night Open Group
47.7 miles away from Patoka, Illinois
South 1st Street, Fairfield, Illinois 62837
Fairfield 1st Street
47.8 miles away from Patoka, Illinois
1203 Vandalia Street, Collinsville, Illinois 62234
AA Meeting Collinsville
47.8 miles away from Patoka, Illinois
, Shelbyville, Illinois 62565
Sunday Night Group
47.9 miles away from Patoka, Illinois
201 East Church Street, Collinsville, Illinois 62234
Collinsville Lounge Group
48.3 miles away from Patoka, Illinois
307 West Clay Street, Collinsville, Illinois 62234
Honesty Group
48.6 miles away from Patoka, Illinois
1 Hairpin Drive, Edwardsville, Illinois 62025
The Spiritual Experience
48.6 miles away from Patoka, Illinois
414 West Main Street, Collinsville, Illinois 62234
Sobriety in Blum
48.7 miles away from Patoka, Illinois
7517 North Illinois Street, Caseyville, Illinois 62232
Blue Collar Sobriety Group Mens
48.9 miles away from Patoka, Illinois
North Center Street, Tilden, Illinois 62292
One Day at a Time Group Tilden
49 miles away from Patoka, Illinois
101 North Walnut Street, Pinckneyville, Illinois 62274
Friday Night Group
49.1 miles away from Patoka, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Patoka, 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.