5720 Urbandale Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50310
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92.8 miles away from Thornton, Iowa
2301 Hickman Road, Des Moines, Iowa 50310
Freedom & A New Happiness
92.8 miles away from Thornton, Iowa
U.S. Highway 71 South, Okoboji, Iowa 51355
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92.9 miles away from Thornton, Iowa
1301 Okoboji Avenue, Milford, Iowa 51351
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92.9 miles away from Thornton, Iowa
1225 Copper Creek Drive, Pleasant Hill, Iowa 50327
Anything Goes Pleasant Hill
93 miles away from Thornton, Iowa
1204 L Avenue, Milford, Iowa 51351
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93 miles away from Thornton, Iowa
2700 72nd Street, Urbandale, Iowa 50322
KISS Group Urbandale
93.2 miles away from Thornton, Iowa
309 2nd Street, Jackson, Minnesota 56143
Jackson Java Group #721968
93.2 miles away from Thornton, Iowa
1400 Pennsylvania Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50316
White House Group
93.3 miles away from Thornton, Iowa
4801 Franklin Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50310
Honesty Hour
93.3 miles away from Thornton, Iowa
3400 Zenith Avenue, Spirit Lake, Iowa 51360
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93.3 miles away from Thornton, Iowa
204 2nd Street Northwest, Faribault, Minnesota 55021
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93.3 miles away from Thornton, Iowa
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Thornton, 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.