2500 University Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50311
Meeting Makers Make It
57.6 miles away from Ellston, Iowa
4801 Franklin Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50310
Honesty Hour
57.7 miles away from Ellston, Iowa
2507 University Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50311
Meeting Makers Make It
57.7 miles away from Ellston, Iowa
323 East Locust Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50309
Mon/Wed E. Village
57.8 miles away from Ellston, Iowa
1050 6th Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50314
Friends of Bill Holiday Inn
58 miles away from Ellston, Iowa
5720 Urbandale Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50310
Monday Nite Stag
58.1 miles away from Ellston, Iowa
3530 70th Street, Urbandale, Iowa 50322
Urbandale 70th St Group
58.1 miles away from Ellston, Iowa
801 University Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50314
Inner City Group
58.2 miles away from Ellston, Iowa
2901 Hoover Drive, Trenton, Missouri 64683
Suspended MI Group
58.2 miles away from Ellston, Iowa
3010 52nd Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50310
Three Legacies
58.3 miles away from Ellston, Iowa
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Ellston, 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.