2110 West 1st Street, Ankeny, Iowa 50023
Ankeny Early Birds
120.4 miles away from Carpenter, Iowa
118 Northwest Linden Street, Ankeny, Iowa 50023
Ankeny Early Birds
120.4 miles away from Carpenter, Iowa
14383 Forest Boulevard North, Hugo, Minnesota 55038
Hugo AA
120.4 miles away from Carpenter, Iowa
1361 7th Avenue Southwest, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52404
West Highlands
120.4 miles away from Carpenter, Iowa
525 A Avenue Northeast, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
The Basic Text Cedar Rapids
120.4 miles away from Carpenter, Iowa
235 35th Street, Marion, Iowa 52302
Together We Can Group #178313
120.5 miles away from Carpenter, Iowa
225 35th Street, Marion, Iowa 52302
Sunday Morning Industrial
120.5 miles away from Carpenter, Iowa
1448 North 4th Street, New Richmond, Wisconsin 54017
New Richmond Alano Society
120.6 miles away from Carpenter, Iowa
1285 3rd Avenue Southeast, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52403
Women Into Action Cedar Rapids
120.6 miles away from Carpenter, Iowa
310 5th Street Southeast, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
The Downtowners 12 10 PM
120.7 miles away from Carpenter, Iowa
103 2nd Street Southwest, Bondurant, Iowa 50035
Bondurant Group
120.7 miles away from Carpenter, Iowa
512 6th Street Southeast, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Neighborly
120.8 miles away from Carpenter, Iowa
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Carpenter, 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.