505 5th Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50309
5th Ave Fellowship
49.7 miles away from Stratford, Iowa
4501 Mills Civic Parkway, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265
Ladies Night West Des Moines
49.8 miles away from Stratford, Iowa
323 East Locust Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50309
Mon/Wed E. Village
49.9 miles away from Stratford, Iowa
1240 Heires Avenue, Carroll, Iowa 51401
Focus On Freedom Group #719139
50.7 miles away from Stratford, Iowa
1225 Copper Creek Drive, Pleasant Hill, Iowa 50327
Anything Goes Pleasant Hill
50.7 miles away from Stratford, Iowa
200 2nd Street Northwest, Mitchellville, Iowa 50169
New Beginnings Mitchellville
50.8 miles away from Stratford, Iowa
3301 Southwest 9th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50315
Saturday Night South Side Step Study
51.9 miles away from Stratford, Iowa
3938 Fleur Drive, Des Moines, Iowa 50321
Wakonda Candlelight Meeting
52 miles away from Stratford, Iowa
3820 Southwest 9th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50315
SouthSide Step Study Des Moines
52.2 miles away from Stratford, Iowa
6205 Southwest 9th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50315
Freedom Group
53.7 miles away from Stratford, Iowa
6001 Southeast 5th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50315
TNT Group
53.8 miles away from Stratford, Iowa
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Stratford, 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.