308 Jefferson Street, Jefferson City, Missouri 65101
260.9 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
308 Jefferson Street, Jefferson City, Missouri 65101
Downtown Group
260.9 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
400 North Walnut Street, Itasca, Illinois 60143
Whistle Stop
260.9 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
1233 West Holtz Avenue, Addison, Illinois 60101
Slow Learners
261 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
313 East Main Street, Warrenton, Missouri 63383
452 Early Birds
261 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
207 East Center Street, Itasca, Illinois 60143
Monday Night 12 and 12
261.1 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
1600 West Park Avenue, Libertyville, Illinois 60048
Mens Promises Group
261.1 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
206 North Midland Avenue, Joliet, Illinois 60435
Steel City Group
261.1 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
815 South Finley Road, Lombard, Illinois 60148
41 Atheists Agnostics and Everyone
261.1 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
, Pawnee, Illinois 62558
Friends of Bill W Pawnee
261.1 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
305 East Boughton Road, Bolingbrook, Illinois 60440
Beginners Sampler
261.2 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
2001 Butterfield Road, Downers Grove, Illinois 60515
Acceptance Group
261.3 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Gifford, 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.