505 East Grant Street, Macomb, Illinois 61455
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86.2 miles away from Richland, Iowa
6411 Southeast 5th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50315
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86.9 miles away from Richland, Iowa
6001 Southeast 5th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50315
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87 miles away from Richland, Iowa
507 1st Street, Colona, Illinois 61241
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87.1 miles away from Richland, Iowa
68 Gruber Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50315
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87.6 miles away from Richland, Iowa
1 Thelma Street, Hudson, Iowa 50643
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87.6 miles away from Richland, Iowa
6205 Southwest 9th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50315
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87.9 miles away from Richland, Iowa
3820 Southwest 9th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50315
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88.3 miles away from Richland, Iowa
3301 Southwest 9th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50315
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88.4 miles away from Richland, Iowa
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Richland, 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.