Luckily, like with many businesses and groups, the internet made it easier for people to connect and find time to meet again with their support groups. The only requirement is to seek sobriety, while the group’s primary purpose is to stay sober in the process. While discussion meetings in person can create a sense of fellowship where everyone shares a common problem, a hybrid or virtual meeting can serve the same purpose. If this disrupted your ability to attend AA meetings, you are not alone. Maybe you were attending meetings before the start of COVID and had a really great time being around like-minded individuals with whom you were able to share your experience, but then they all got put on pause due to the pandemic. You may have fallen off and found that the stress of the last several months has caused you to seek alternate ways to fill your time and supply yourself with happiness. With people being laid off, people getting sick, housing prices rocketing, and the state of the future of our world still somewhat unknown, taking care of yourself might have gotten placed on the back burner. Things have not been easy over this last year (and then some).

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