103 2nd Street Southwest, Bondurant, Iowa 50035
Bondurant Group
13.9 miles away from Carlisle, Iowa
5720 Urbandale Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50310
Monday Nite Stag
13.9 miles away from Carlisle, Iowa
4300 Beaver Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50310
Back to Basics
14 miles away from Carlisle, Iowa
4525 Beaver Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50310
New Hope Group- Beaver
14.1 miles away from Carlisle, Iowa
407 West 2nd Street, Prairie City, Iowa 50228
Camel Group Prairie City
14.3 miles away from Carlisle, Iowa
5128 Meredith Drive, Des Moines, Iowa 50310
Cover II Cover
14.6 miles away from Carlisle, Iowa
1025 28th Street, West Des Moines, Iowa 50266
New Beginnings at Covenant
14.6 miles away from Carlisle, Iowa
2700 72nd Street, Urbandale, Iowa 50322
KISS Group Urbandale
14.7 miles away from Carlisle, Iowa
3650 68th Street, Urbandale, Iowa 50322
Grupo Un Nuevo Despertar #714336
14.8 miles away from Carlisle, Iowa
3530 70th Street, Urbandale, Iowa 50322
Urbandale 70th St Group
14.8 miles away from Carlisle, Iowa
4501 Mills Civic Parkway, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265
Ladies Night West Des Moines
15.2 miles away from Carlisle, Iowa
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Carlisle, 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.