AA Meetings Pasatiempo, CA

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

The closest AA meeting to you is 0.9 miles away and meets on Sunday at 9:00 AM.

If you can't find a meeting close to you at the time you're looking for, we recommend checking out nearby towns including: Paradise Park, Santa Cruz, Twin Lakes, and Mount Hermon.

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

What is an AA Meeting?

An AA Meeting is a place to spread a message of strength, hope and courage to other alcoholics. This is a safe place for an alcoholic wanting to get sober to come in and ask for help. These AA Meetings in Pasatiempo, CA will help them build a support network to help achieve sobriety. You will be greeted by your peers that have all lived and survived from addiction. Their survival of maintaining their sobriety is reliant on helping others and giving back to others the support that they received.

How to Choose an AA Meeting in Pasatiempo, CA

It is important when coming to AA that you choose a meeting that is best for where you are at in sobriety. The 1st type of AA meeting is a new comers meeting and is not limited to only new comers but is a meeting that encourages them to speak their truth and accept help. The second type of meeting would be a single gender meeting, which is only open to one gender. A Closed meeting simply means the group is solely focused on conversations regarding how to stay sober from alcohol. Talking about any other drugs is not allowed. A Step Study is a meeting that is simply focused on a single step and discussed in length regarding the best approach to working this step and applying it to your daily life. Traditions meetings are focused on the 12 traditions of AA. The 12 traditions are different than the 12 steps. The traditions were established to maintain order throughout AA and holding each group accountable to these traditions is why you can walk into an Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting anywhere in across the globe to hear the same message.

How to Get The Most From an Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting in Pasatiempo, CA

In order to benefit the most from your first AA meeting you should remain open minded. We all had an idea of what these meeting were and generally it is the same misconception. The most beneficial thing I was told was to sit down, stop talking, listen to the message, and modestly ask for help. Regardless of the meeting, that one thing that won't change is the message of recovering from a hopeless state of mind. The process of recovering from that hopeless state is in asking for help from another alcoholic which you will find in any meeting you choose to start with.