302 11th Street, Port Byron, Illinois 61275
Port Byron Hilltop
34.9 miles away from Sterling, Illinois
2700 West Stephenson Street, Freeport, Illinois 61032
Crossroads Group Freeport
35 miles away from Sterling, Illinois
225 North Cherry Avenue, Freeport, Illinois 61032
9am Sobriety Group
35.4 miles away from Sterling, Illinois
302 North Cody Road, Le Claire, Iowa 52753
William's Hall
35.9 miles away from Sterling, Illinois
408 Jackson Street, Cleveland, Illinois 61241
Cleveland Group
37.5 miles away from Sterling, Illinois
201 East Chicago Avenue, Davis Junction, Illinois 61020
Davis Junction
37.8 miles away from Sterling, Illinois
110 West 1st Street, Kewanee, Illinois 61443
Henry County Group
39.5 miles away from Sterling, Illinois
4438 South Bend Road, Rockford, Illinois 61109
Second Chance
39.5 miles away from Sterling, Illinois
126 West 5th Street, Pecatonica, Illinois 61063
Pecatonica Group
40 miles away from Sterling, Illinois
507 1st Street, Colona, Illinois 61241
Colona Group
40.4 miles away from Sterling, Illinois
1550 7th Avenue, Silvis, Illinois 61282
Our Primary Purpose Silvis
41.7 miles away from Sterling, Illinois
223 East Front Avenue, Stockton, Illinois 61085
Stockton Group
41.9 miles away from Sterling, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Sterling, 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.