AA Meetings White Stone, VA

Below is a comprehensive directory of AA meetings in White Stone, Virginia.

The closest AA meeting to you is 2.08 miles away and meets on Saturday at 7:30:00 PM.

If you can't find a meeting close to you at the time you're looking for, we recommend checking out nearby towns including: White Stone, Irvington, Irvington, and Kilmarnock.

Additional local resources: White Stone NA Meetings | White Stone Al-Anon Meetings

What is an AA Meeting?

An Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting is a place to share experiences and success stories with other alcoholics. This is a safe place for an alcoholic seeking sobriety to come in and ask for help. These Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings in White Stone, VA will help them build a support network to live a sober life. You will be welcomed by your peers that have all lived and survived from alcoholism. Their ability to maintain their sobriety is dependent on helping others and giving back to others the guidance that was given to them.

How to Choose an AA Meeting in White Stone, VA

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 members to share their stories and reach out for help. The second 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 substance use addictions is not allowed. A Step Study is a meeting that is simply focused on a single step and spoken about in length regarding the best approach to working this step and applying it to your daily life. Traditions meetings are based off the 12 traditions of AA. The 12 traditions are not the same as the 12 steps. The traditions were established to maintain order throughout AA and maintaining accountability to these traditions is why you can walk into 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 White Stone, VA

In order to benefit the most from your first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting you should keep an open minded. Everyone had preconceived notions of what these meeting were and generally it is the same misconception. The best advice I ever got was to sit down, stop talking, listen to the message, and humbly ask for help. No matter the type of meeting meeting, the one constant will be 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 Alcoholics Anonymous meeting you choose to pick as your first.