939 Oak Street Southeast, Salem, Oregon 97301
Second Chance Group Salem
32.6 miles away from Gates, Oregon
685 Marion Street Northeast, Salem, Oregon 97301
Way Home Group
32.8 miles away from Gates, Oregon
600 State Street, Salem, Oregon 97301
Daily Reprieve Salem
32.8 miles away from Gates, Oregon
1444 Liberty Street Southeast, Salem, Oregon 97302
Downtown Group Salem
32.8 miles away from Gates, Oregon
582 High Street Southeast, Salem, Oregon 97301
Step of the Month AA Group
32.9 miles away from Gates, Oregon
555 Gaines Street Northeast, Salem, Oregon 97301
Primary Purpose Gaines Street Northeast
32.9 miles away from Gates, Oregon
1305 5th Street Northeast, Salem, Oregon 97301
Primary Purpose 5th Street Northeast
32.9 miles away from Gates, Oregon
1111 Bain Street Southeast, Albany, Oregon 97322
Albany Group 1
33.2 miles away from Gates, Oregon
930 Plymouth Drive Northeast, Keizer, Oregon 97303
Big Book Study
33.3 miles away from Gates, Oregon
522 North Pacific Highway, Woodburn, Oregon 97071
Fraternidad Woodburn
33.6 miles away from Gates, Oregon
375 Taybin Road Northwest, Salem, Oregon 97304
Pioneer Group Salem
33.8 miles away from Gates, Oregon
2530 Grand Prairie Road Southeast, Albany, Oregon 97322
Happy Hour Grand Albany
33.8 miles away from Gates, Oregon
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Gates, Oregon 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.