629 East Spruce Street, Chatham, Illinois 62629
Chatham TGIF Group
74.4 miles away from Bel-Ridge, Missouri
201 East McMackin Street, Salem, Illinois 62881
Kamel Club Group
74.9 miles away from Bel-Ridge, Missouri
1835 East Walnut Street, Chatham, Illinois 62629
Sunlight Underground
75.1 miles away from Bel-Ridge, Missouri
211 North First Street, Steelville, Missouri 65565
First Presbyterian Church
75.8 miles away from Bel-Ridge, Missouri
211 North First Street, Steelville, Missouri 65565
Steelville Happy Hour
75.8 miles away from Bel-Ridge, Missouri
County Road 1100 East, Kell, Illinois 62853
Crossroads Group
75.9 miles away from Bel-Ridge, Missouri
20 South Hickory Street, Du Quoin, Illinois 62832
Wednesday Night Group Du Quoin
76.3 miles away from Bel-Ridge, Missouri
521 West Park Drive, Ironton, Missouri 63650
79 miles away from Bel-Ridge, Missouri
1104 North 42nd Street, Mount Vernon, Illinois 62864
New Found Freedom Group
79.4 miles away from Bel-Ridge, Missouri
4212 Broadway Street, Mount Vernon, Illinois 62864
Saturday Night R A W
79.7 miles away from Bel-Ridge, Missouri
116 East Franklin Street, Taylorville, Illinois 62568
79.9 miles away from Bel-Ridge, Missouri
3205 Broadway Street, Mount Vernon, Illinois 62864
Primary Purpose Group Mount Vernon
80.4 miles away from Bel-Ridge, Missouri
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Bel-Ridge, Missouri 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.