1701 8th Street Southwest, Altoona, Iowa 50009
Progress Not Perfection Altoona
72.3 miles away from Tara, Iowa
156 U. S. Highway 71, Arnolds Park, Iowa 51331
#132068
73.3 miles away from Tara, Iowa
1225 Copper Creek Drive, Pleasant Hill, Iowa 50327
Anything Goes Pleasant Hill
73.6 miles away from Tara, Iowa
3938 Fleur Drive, Des Moines, Iowa 50321
Wakonda Candlelight Meeting
73.7 miles away from Tara, Iowa
4313 Main Street, Elk Horn, Iowa 51531
Sons and Daughters In Recovery Group #725097
73.8 miles away from Tara, Iowa
3301 Southwest 9th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50315
Saturday Night South Side Step Study
73.9 miles away from Tara, Iowa
U.S. Highway 71 South, Okoboji, Iowa 51355
Discussion Group #663536
73.9 miles away from Tara, Iowa
3820 Southwest 9th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50315
SouthSide Step Study Des Moines
74.1 miles away from Tara, Iowa
3501 Hill Avenue, Spirit Lake, Iowa 51360
#179589
74.8 miles away from Tara, Iowa
200 2nd Street Northwest, Mitchellville, Iowa 50169
New Beginnings Mitchellville
74.9 miles away from Tara, Iowa
200 Main Street, Danbury, Iowa 51019
Danbury A.A. Group #665097
75.1 miles away from Tara, Iowa
3400 Zenith Avenue, Spirit Lake, Iowa 51360
#712592
75.5 miles away from Tara, Iowa
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Tara, 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.