330 West Golf Road, Arlington Heights, Illinois 60005
Monday Nite Mixed
6.1 miles away from Wood Dale, Illinois
528 East Madison Street, Lombard, Illinois 60148
Online Lombard Kitchen Table Group
6.2 miles away from Wood Dale, Illinois
350 East Madison Street, Lombard, Illinois 60148
Serenity Group Lombard
6.3 miles away from Wood Dale, Illinois
1535 East Oakton Street, Des Plaines, Illinois 60018
Polish Speaking
6.3 miles away from Wood Dale, Illinois
1336 South Villa Avenue, Villa Park, Illinois 60181
Genesis Group 2
6.8 miles away from Wood Dale, Illinois
501 South Emerson Street, Mount Prospect, Illinois 60056
Tues Night Beginners
6.9 miles away from Wood Dale, Illinois
130 South Roselle Road, Schaumburg, Illinois 60193
NW Suburbs Quad A
6.9 miles away from Wood Dale, Illinois
301 South I Oka Avenue, Mount Prospect, Illinois 60056
S Curve
6.9 miles away from Wood Dale, Illinois
815 South Finley Road, Lombard, Illinois 60148
41 Atheists Agnostics and Everyone
7 miles away from Wood Dale, Illinois
1099 South York Street, Elmhurst, Illinois 60126
Oline And Land Brain Damaged Group
7 miles away from Wood Dale, Illinois
916 East Central Road, Arlington Heights, Illinois 60005
AM Group
7.2 miles away from Wood Dale, Illinois
1S071 Luther Avenue, Lombard, Illinois 60148
Online Lunch Bunch Group
7.2 miles away from Wood Dale, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Wood Dale, 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.