Why do I need Meetings?

In early recovery meetings are your thread to sanity, they are life blood. Studies have shown that those in early recovery who go to 3 meetings or more per week have a 67% better chance of getting clean and sober than those who do not. Those are pretty good odds, if you truly want to have a better life and change, I would absolutely suggest you take advantage of anything that will give you an edge. How does going to meetings give you an edge? Well first off they are a safer place to be than just about anywhere else you would go , You are more than likely not going to be getting drunk or high at a meeting,. Secondly you are will be with others just like you, those who understand your pain, your shame, your guilt, your fears and those that feel or have felt just exactly how you feel. Thirdly you will meet those who can help you recover. Fourthly you will learn here of “The Program” that will change your life—that will give you a new life.

Yes you will meet “sick people” there, hell you’re sick. This is where the sick come to get healed. We are all sick damaged people just working together to be better people “one day at a time”. However yes there are some that are sicker than others, yet they too can recover. And yes there are a few that are just sick and don’t bother to change. However perhaps one day. You need to listen with your heart rather than your head, when you listen with your heart, you will hear those who speak the “language of the heart”; those are the ones you want to be around. They will show you “the Program”, which will give you a new life. Meetings are where we find the directions to the path and the answers, which are in the Program. Meetings alone may possibly get you clean and sober however they will not grant you long term sobriety, and a new lease on life. Only the Program will do this for you. However the paradox is: it is you and you alone, with the support of your sponsor, support system, and possibly a recovery coach, that will get you a new lease on life. YOU have to do the work, albeit all those in “the program” will help, however only you can do the work. Nobody, not the best sponsor in the world, not the best support system in the world and definitely not the best recovery coach and/or counsellor can do this for you. However meetings are where you find all these things and more. As well as some of the best support and help available in the world, just remember to listen with your heart, for the “language of the heart” for in meetings is where it is spoken.

Remember God does not create garbage