330 West Golf Road, Arlington Heights, Illinois 60005
Monday Nite Mixed
261.8 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
731 Southwest Buchanan Street, Topeka, Kansas 66606
Wednesday Women's Group
261.8 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
305 North Dunton Avenue, Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004
Step Sisters Arlington Heights
261.8 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
1000 1st Street Southeast, Little Falls, Minnesota 56345
Monday Nite Courage To Change Group #637835
261.8 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
1501 South Main Street, Lombard, Illinois 60148
41 Four Seasons Step Group
261.8 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
500 Wilcox Street, Joliet, Illinois 60435
St Francis Sunday Open Meeting
261.9 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
749 South Hunt Club Road, Gurnee, Illinois 60031
Tuesday 24 Hours a Day
261.9 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
1015 State Highway 47, Warrenton, Missouri 63383
Group 130
261.9 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
710 West Marion Street, Joliet, Illinois 60436
Bunch of Wax
262 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
1703 North Broadway Street, Crest Hill, Illinois 60403
Fellowship Club of Will County
262 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
1005 Southwest 10th Avenue, Topeka, Kansas 66604
WREN House Recovery Center
262 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
1005 Southwest 10th Avenue, Topeka, Kansas 66604
Ebony Group
262 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.