Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings in Tennessee

What Is Alcoholics Anonymous?

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an international fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other so that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.

Hermitage Group

• Monday – Friday at noon (open discussion)
• Tuesday and Thursday at 6 p.m. (closed meetings for alcoholics only)

Downtown Noon Group

• Address: 161 Rains Ave, Nashville, TN 37203
• Meetings: Daily at noon (open discussion meeting)

Whitehaven Morning Group

• Address: 4784 Elvis Presley Blvd, Memphis, TN 38116
• Meetings: Monday–Friday at 10:30 a.m. (closed discussion for alcoholics only)

The 12 Steps of AA

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) outlines a 12-step program to help members achieve and maintain sobriety. The steps aim to motivate members toward positive change across Tennessee.

1. Admitting one is powerless over alcohol and that one’s life has become unmanageable.
2. Coming to believe that a Power greater than oneself can restore one to sanity.
3. Making a decision to turn one’s will and one’s life over to the care of God as we understand Him.
4. Making a searching and fearless moral inventory of oneself.
5. Admitting to God, to oneself, and to another human being the exact nature of one’s wrongs.
6. Being entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asking Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Making a list of all persons we had harmed and becoming willing to make amends to them all.
9. Making direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continuing to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitting it.
11. Seeking through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Getting Started with AA in Tennessee

Use the meeting search on udetc.org to find local meetings in your area. Both in-person and online/virtual meetings are available in most places across Tennessee.

Attending Your First Local AA Meeting

AA meetings in Tennessee may be “open” or “closed.” Open meetings welcome anyone interested in Alcoholics Anonymous. Closed meetings are for those who have a desire to stop drinking.

When attending your first local AA meeting:

1. Arrive early and introduce yourself as a new local member.
2. Share your experiences if you feel comfortable.

Receive welcome keychain tags marking periods of sobriety:

• 30 days
• 60 days
• 90 days
• 6 months
• 9 months
• 1 year
• 18 months
• Years 2-30