I've been doing SMART recovery. It's very different than AA. Smartrecovery.com
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I found it helpful to try opening up and communicating with the group. It was easier for me to open up to a therapist. Fellowship in a room is a two way system. Getting a sponsor and working steps was a game changer. If someone sits in the corner I don’t run up to ask what is wrong. If someone asks for my help completely different. 3 years later I don’t go to meetings to not drink tonight I go to see my friends and share honest vulnerability I don’t share at work or non sober friends. That is how it works for me.
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When we first get involved with recovery , we have our perceptions of what we think is or isn’t going to work for us , later to find we were wrong and find our way thru others that have gone before us ! From one their shall come many and from many their shall come one ! Trust when I say if one keeps going to the barber shop one day they will get a hair cut !
Getting sober is extremely uncomfortable. The first step is uncomfortable, admitting you are powerless to your addiction. The next uncomfortable part is realizing your underlying conditions that causes you to drink. Any type of healing is always uncomfortable at first. Just keep going after it.
It seems to me the doctrines of AA run counterintuitive to the brass tax of sobriety, especially for folks with a drinking problem.
Mutual support can help when healing trauma that's a catalyst for substance abuse. Is that what you are hoping to find at meetings..?
Keep searching for a program.don’t give up.look on line.
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