What options are available for people in AA and NA (and other recovery groups)...

[NurseJackie]

What options are available for people in AA and NA (and other recovery groups) when they cannot attend meetings? Virtual meetings? Skype? Phone? Reading? Meditation? Music?

When meetings are cancelled and venues closed... or when isolated at home, are these self-quarantining times more difficult for those who are in recovery? I imagine that there are those among us who are struggling even more.

[LisaM]

1. I know some people in these programs who are doing online meetings (Zoom, I think).

Just one more group of people suffering residual consequences from this.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Zoom...go to your county NA and AA site and you will see meetings scheduled

using Zoom.

Put Zoom on your phone, tablet or laptop...

[SledDriver]

3. SMARTrecovery.org has a lot of resources, including online meetings, chat, etc

https://www.smartrecovery.org/

[gibraltar72]

4. Served 21 years on board of halfway house

12 step principles. I never had the problem. Just say I'm a friend of a friend of Bills. Interact as much as you can with others. Tell them what you feel. If you have a sponsor lean on them. I know that's not much help. But you have resources today we never had Skype and so on. Hope it goes well as it can It's still one day at a time.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Zoom AA meetings are also available in my district here in New York

Since the majority of AA meetings have been canceled for over 2 weeks. It's been up to the venue to decide on whether to allow meetings, those held in church basements/schoolrooms were canceled early on since most churches have also canceled services.

[yewberry]

6. Have you looked at IntheRooms?

https://www.intherooms.com/home/

There are online meetings happening almost all of the time.