Meetings are a source of believable hope. We can hear how other recovering people stay clean and sober and how they deal with difficult issues in recovery. Meetings give us a safe place to voice our concerns and feelings about recovery. We can ask and listen for advice on how other people have endured their cravings without drinking or using again. We can constructively fill those voids of time that we once spent with our drinking and drugging friends.
Meeting are the best place to develop a supportive network of recovering friends.
Experience has shown that quality, long-term recovery improves through working the program along with others. By ourselves we may become complacent or slip into denial. Being part of the fellowship of Dual Recovery Anonymous helps up stay on course. It acts as a sounding board to help us recognize our successes and cope with our challenges in recovery. It is simply a matter of individual preference and need.