510 East 1st Street, Ankeny, Iowa 50021
Ankeny AA Basics
45.2 miles away from Paton, Iowa
410 Elm Street, Manning, Iowa 51455
Walking Miracles Group #136379
45.4 miles away from Paton, Iowa
216 All Saint's Drive, Stuart, Iowa 50250
Stuart Solutions Group
45.6 miles away from Paton, Iowa
1660 60th Street, West Des Moines, Iowa 50266
How It Works West Des Moines
45.8 miles away from Paton, Iowa
5128 Meredith Drive, Des Moines, Iowa 50310
Cover II Cover
46.3 miles away from Paton, Iowa
925 Jordan Creek Parkway, West Des Moines, Iowa 50266
Freedom Hall Step Study
46.4 miles away from Paton, Iowa
1304 Northwest 104th Street, Clive, Iowa 50325
West End Big Book
46.4 miles away from Paton, Iowa
3530 70th Street, Urbandale, Iowa 50322
Urbandale 70th St Group
46.4 miles away from Paton, Iowa
3650 68th Street, Urbandale, Iowa 50322
Grupo Un Nuevo Despertar #714336
46.4 miles away from Paton, Iowa
10395 University Avenue, Clive, Iowa 50325
Broken Elevator Group
46.5 miles away from Paton, Iowa
4525 Beaver Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50310
New Hope Group- Beaver
46.7 miles away from Paton, Iowa
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Paton, 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.