1006 Gillick Street, Park Ridge, Illinois 60068
Early Birds Park Ridge
24.9 miles away from St. Charles, Illinois
3435 Hollywood Avenue, Brookfield, Illinois 60513
Wednesday Night Castaways
25.1 miles away from St. Charles, Illinois
111 South Church Street, Wauconda, Illinois 60084
Closed Polish
25.3 miles away from St. Charles, Illinois
200 Barrington Road, Wauconda, Illinois 60084
Big Book Wauconda
25.3 miles away from St. Charles, Illinois
3701 Doty Road, Woodstock, Illinois 60098
Camerons Comrades
25.4 miles away from St. Charles, Illinois
100 North Main Street, Wauconda, Illinois 60084
Winners And Beginners 12 And 12
25.4 miles away from St. Charles, Illinois
7525 West Belmont Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60707
Step
25.4 miles away from St. Charles, Illinois
2506 Caton Farm Road, Joliet, Illinois 60435
Time to Grow and Let Go
25.5 miles away from St. Charles, Illinois
207 North Prospect Avenue, Park Ridge, Illinois 60068
Share and Care
25.6 miles away from St. Charles, Illinois
405 West State Road, Island Lake, Illinois 60042
How and Why Meeting
25.6 miles away from St. Charles, Illinois
3212 South Riverdale Road, McHenry, Illinois 60051
Burtons Bridge Group
25.8 miles away from St. Charles, Illinois
7329 Harrison Street, Forest Park, Illinois 60130
Diehard Bleacher Bums
25.9 miles away from St. Charles, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in St. Charles, 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.