Need to walk into a meeting for the first time... help?

Dublin · Member

Need to walk into a meeting for the first time... help?

Quetzal · MIP Old Timer

Hi Ren,

Don't worry about your first meeting. You'll find lots of really lovely and helpful people who are all trying to stay sober one day at a time. An A.A. meeting may take one of several forms, but at any meeting you will find alcoholics talking about what drink did to their lives and personalities, what actions they took to deal with this, and how they are living their lives today.

You could always 'phone your local helpline and see if they can arrange for someone to meet you outside the meeting room and then introduce you to a few people there.

Please keep posting and letting us know how it goes for you, won't you?

Take care,

Carol

lostmdboy · Veteran Member

I proromiss you by the time you have been in the meeting for ten minutes you will be wondering "what was I scared of?" Kike so many things atleast for this alky worry about how things might be is just a waste of energy, because the never turn out how I thought they would. I know it is a humbling expierence, but that is exactly what a lot of us need.

StPeteDean · MIP Old Timer

No worries, these are the same people that you laughed with while you were drinking. We still laugh a lot, we just found ways to do it without alcohol. It's a hard concept at first, and you'll wonder why most of these AA people are so happy. It's because they are free, on a daily basis, from the horrors of active alcoholism.

Make sure that you tell them that you're new, or in your first meetings, so that they can welcome you properly.
Typically several members will offer you their phone number to offer support. Generally it's good to go to a couple speakers meetings, followed by some beginners meetings before going to discussion meetings, so that you can learn some of the basic stuff. You'll feel more comfortable that way. Enjoy your new journey, it's a beautiful thing. Ask lots of questions here and at the meetings.

Dean

-- Edited by StPeteDean at 10:38, 2008-03-24

Bryan39 · Senior Member

meetings are a bunch of alcoholics taking turns talking about their disease there usually is a topic for discussion bbut for your first meeting share whatever is on your heart or simpply feel free to say "i'm just going to listen" mostly just remember that evryone there has been where you are good luick

lani · MIP Old Timer

Best of luck at your first meeting! May it be the "first" of many wonderful things to come your way!!! You just have to want it!!!
Let us know how it goes!!!!!
Lani

Sobrietyspell · MIP Old Timer

Welcome to MIP, Ren. You've been here a few times since first logging on, haven't you! I'm glad you keep coming back. It sounds like you've had some struggles stopping though you still want to. It takes a great deal of courage to go to your first meeting so I'm commending & congratulating you there. I hope it brings about the changes you want in your life. It helped me to stayed stopped too. Now, I have the small matter of learning to live with some semblance & sanity in my life on a daily basis today 1Day@aTime & that's not easy! I'm glad I have help to do so. Gosh knows I need it! I find it hard to do the things I want & need to do. I don't always handle responsibility & time management well & sometimes feel spoiled with the choices I'm free to make as I have a tendency to go for easy options i.e. laziness or avoid stuff by doing too much. I also like to overanalyse & forget to keep things simple with first things first! I'm glad you're here. I hope we can help each other. Let us know how your first meetings go. Try a few & see how you find them. Lots of lovely people there, keen to help. Take care until your next posting, Danielle x