Reaction Paper About Aa Meeting

The AA meeting I attended was on September 11, 2015 at the 13th street clubhouse in Bowling Green Ky. There was a good amount of people that attended the meeting. About 25 people were there and it was a good mixture of women and men from all walks of life. The room that the meeting was in was a big room with plenty of options on where to sit. It was not a fancy room but it serve its purpose for the meeting. They had tables that were in a circle where most of the attendies sat at but then they had seats that outline the room so that if you did not feel confrontable with sitting in the circle you could sit around them and still feel part of the group. At this meeting they had someone that was in charge of the group and he was also is someone …show more content…
As the meeting went on I felt better about being there because I found that I might not have a problem with alcohol but I do have my own problems that I can apply some of the coping mechanisms that they learn and apply those to me. What I learned about the 12 step program is that the recovering alcoholic is ultimately responsible for their recovery and that they themselves are responsible for the actions that got them there and any of their actions that will happen for the rest of their lives. What I learned about my self is that I need to take responsibility for my addictions that I have and change those because if I don’t I may run into some of the same issues that all of the recovering alcoholics have with alcohol. My perception of addiction changed a little bit because I understand a little more now on what they deal with and how much of a struggle it is not to give into the temptation of having a drink. An addiction is addiction weather its smoking, alcohol or eating junk food. We all deal with addiction of some sort but how we control and deal with them is what makes the difference between getting in trouble for them and paying the price for that