1025 28th Street, West Des Moines, Iowa 50266
New Beginnings at Covenant
46 miles away from Bayard, Iowa
2700 72nd Street, Urbandale, Iowa 50322
KISS Group Urbandale
46.2 miles away from Bayard, Iowa
5665 Merle Hay Road, Johnston, Iowa 50131
Johnston Group
46.3 miles away from Bayard, Iowa
3530 70th Street, Urbandale, Iowa 50322
Urbandale 70th St Group
46.3 miles away from Bayard, Iowa
3650 68th Street, Urbandale, Iowa 50322
Grupo Un Nuevo Despertar #714336
46.4 miles away from Bayard, Iowa
1076 8th Street, Manson, Iowa 50563
Manson Topic Group #704241
46.9 miles away from Bayard, Iowa
1990 Grand Avenue, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265
Ray Harrison Dinner Group
46.9 miles away from Bayard, Iowa
5128 Meredith Drive, Des Moines, Iowa 50310
Cover II Cover
47.1 miles away from Bayard, Iowa
1240 66th Street, Windsor Heights, Iowa 50324
Big Book Babes
47.1 miles away from Bayard, Iowa
1105 Grand Avenue, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265
4th Dimension Meditation
47.2 miles away from Bayard, Iowa
5720 Urbandale Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50310
Monday Nite Stag
47.2 miles away from Bayard, Iowa
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Bayard, Iowa 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.