AA Meetings Gardena, CA

Below is a comprehensive directory of AA meetings in Gardena, California.

The closest AA meeting to you is 0.41 miles away and meets on Friday at 7:30p.

If you can't find a meeting close to you at the time you're looking for, we recommend checking out nearby towns including: Alondra Park, West Athens, West Rancho Dominguez, and Lawndale.

Additional local resources: Gardena NA Meetings | Gardena Al-Anon Meetings

What is an AA Meeting?

A meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous is a place to share experiences and success stories with other alcoholics. This is a safe place for an addict seeking sobriety to come in and ask for help. These Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings in Gardena, CA will help them build a support network to help guide them to sobriety. You will be welcomed by your peers that have all lived and survived from addiction. Their survival of maintaining a sober life is dependent on helping others and giving back to others the guidance that was given to them.

The Best Method of Selecting an AA Meeting in Gardena, CA

It is important when coming to AA that you pick a meeting that is suited for where you are at in sobriety. The first type of Alcoholics Anonymous meeting is a new comers meeting and is not solely for new comers but is a meeting that encourages them to speak their truth and accept help. The next type of meeting would be a single gender meeting, either a men’s meeting or women’s meeting. These types of meeting are closed to the opposite sex. A Closed meeting simply means the group is solely focused on conversations regarding how to stay sober from alcohol. Talking about any other illicit substances is not allowed. A Step Study is a meeting that is simply a specific step and spoken about in length regarding the best approach to working this step and applying it to your daily life. Traditions meetings revolve around the 12 traditions of AA. The 12 traditions are not the same as the 12 steps. The traditions were created to maintain order throughout AA and maintaining accountability to these traditions is why you can attend a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous anywhere in across the globe to hear the same message.

How to Get The Most From a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous in Gardena, CA

The best way to benefit the most from your first AA meeting you should keep an open minded. We all had an idea of what these meeting were and generally it is the same misconception. The one piece of advice I was ever given was to sit down, stop talking, pay attention to the message, and graciously ask for help. No matter the type of meeting meeting, that one thing that will always be present is the 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 Alcoholics Anonymous meeting you choose as your first.