My first experience at an alcoholics anonymous meeting was very interesting and in a way uplifting. At All Saints Lutheran Church the home group called “The Young People’s Group” there were people who had come from all walks of life. The group meeting that I thought would have been rather small slowly became larger and larger over the course of the night. I was unaware that the AA meetings had been setup with a set of codes or rules for those who struggle every day to fight this addiction. They
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I attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting on 7/11 in Elizabeth NJ at the immaculate Conception School on Prince Street. It was an open-discussion meeting. It reminded me of any therapeutic group; although it did seam more structured and ritualistic‚ almost like a religious group. Before the meeting‚ everyone was socializing gathered around coffee and cookies. Most people seemed to be very close to each other. There was a stand with many pamphlets containing information about alcoholism‚ the program
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For my Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting assignment I attended an AA meeting held at Annunciation RC Church in Paramus. I was a bit nervous before coming in to the meeting. I had my own personal feelings towards alcoholics for some time. I had a few relatives that dealt with alcohol with some of their lives. Like most families from my background‚ talking about alcoholism just never happened. It was something that was kept secret and never discussed. My religion tells us that drinking any kind of
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Step Meeting The meeting I attended took place in Bothell on a weeknight at 7:00 pm in the evening. The meeting was held in a local church and there were 17 people in attendance‚ excluding myself. Among the 17 people‚ there were 6 women and 11 men. The average attendee was approximately between the ages of 40-50‚ 4 people were under the age of 30‚ and two were somewhere around 60. Of the 17 people‚ 16 were white and one woman was of an Asian-American descent. The focus of the meeting was
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AA Meeting After reading and hearing about everyone’s experience with alcohol I decided to attend an AA meeting. I chose this for two reasons‚ one because I wanted to see if these meeting are effective and second because after hearing everyone’s stories I began to doubt myself. I consider myself a social drinker because I like to go out and party mostly every weekend. After learning so much about alcohol I started to wonder if I depended on it in order to have fun. Honestly it is quite scary to
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Running head: My visit to an AA meeting I attended a AA meeting on Saturday night at 7: 00 pm in Bergen County Housing Health Human Services Center 120 South River Street. This simple experience opened my eyes as a person and as a future nurse .One of the First things I noted was the alcohol addiction has no social boundaries or race‚ Gendered or age‚ the meeting was very diverse to my surprise. At an AA meeting‚ people with alcoholism are accepted and understood‚ helping many People keep
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When I saw on my syllabus that I had to attend an AA meeting‚ I was vey nervous‚ frightening and anxious. Walking through the door of my first AA meeting was‚ stressful and uncertain‚ since I did not know what to expect. Being an observator among total strangers‚ who‚ willing wasting their lives away by driking without any regards for their families and friends was not my idea of time well spend. There are hundreds of studies that had shown‚ alcohol have destructive short term and long term effects
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AA Meeting Mandeep Kaur RN 40L July 02‚ 2013 Group Selection: I selected an Alcoholic anonymous meeting. I wanted to see what they do and how it works for people who are alcoholics. I searched alcoholic anonymous meetings in Fresno and found this community service group online at http://fresnoaa.org/home/ Purpose of the group: In Alcoholic Anonymous meeting‚ people gather from community in groups to help one another achieve and maintain abstinence from alcohol. These meetings are free
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Visits to AA meetings I was quite apprehensive about going to a meeting‚ more so than I expected to be. I am not an alcoholic‚ and I was nervous about being invasive to those who are... I am involved in other support groups and I would feel violated if a student sat in one... especially if they participated in any way. I comforted myself with the fact that is acceptable to have visitors at open meetings... then I had to find open meetings. I was also worried about encountering really small
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I was a little nervous attending one of these meetings because I didn’t know what to expect but only know from television shows and movies. What is the reality though? I imagined and painted a picture of what an AA meeting would be like. I pictured a room full of people that were obvious addicts‚ unkept appearances‚ offensive hygiene and at least one person smelling of alcohol while moving back and forth in the chair. As I entered the room‚ my perspective laughed at me and as I looked around
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