7525 West Belmont Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60707
Step
271.4 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
8945 Veterans Memorial Parkway, O'Fallon, Missouri 63366
Group 122
271.4 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
3465 North Macarthur Road, Decatur, Illinois 62526
Serenity Seekers
271.4 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
3465 North Macarthur Road, Decatur, Illinois 62526
Beginners Group
271.4 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
3435 Hollywood Avenue, Brookfield, Illinois 60513
Wednesday Night Castaways
271.4 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
6240 North Avondale Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60631
The First Stop
271.4 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
600 Lincoln Avenue, Wamego, Kansas 66547
Any Lengths
271.5 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
900 North Mason Street, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914
Wednesday Night BB Study Group
271.6 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
501 Ash Street, Wamego, Kansas 66547
Wamego Senior Center
271.6 miles away from Gifford, Iowa
601 Elm Street, Wamego, Kansas 66547
The Foxhall Group of Wamego
271.6 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.