Several support groups use First Unitarian’s facilities to host meetings. All groups listed below are open and welcome new participants.
Al-Anon, Sundays, 5:00-6:00 pm, Memorial Hall
Al-Anon is a mutual support group of peers who share their experience in applying the Al-Anon principles to problems related to the effects of a problem drinker in their lives.
Recovery Dharma Group, Mondays, 6:00-7:00 pm, Arnold Room
Recovery Dharma is a peer-led movement and community that is unified by our trust in the potential of each of us to recover and find freedom from the suffering of addiction. We believe that the traditional Buddhist teachings, often referred to as the Dharma, offer a powerful approach to healing from addiction and living a life of true freedom.
Overeaters Anonymous, Wednesdays, 6:45-8:15 pm, Sanctuary Family Room
Overeaters Anonymous is a fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. We welcome everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively. Our primary purpose is to abstain from compulsive eating and to carry the message of recovery through the Twelve Steps of OA to those who still suffer.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Thursdays, 5:30 pm-6:30 pm, Arnold Room
A.A.’s program of recovery is built on the simple foundation of one alcoholic sharing with another. If your drinking is out of control, A.A. can help.
Narcotics Anonymous, Thursdays, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Arnold Room
If you believe you have a drug problem, N.A. can help.
Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoDa), Fridays, 12;00-1:00 pm, Arnold Room
We offer no definition or diagnostic criteria for codependence. What we do offer from our experience are characteristic attitudes and behaviors that describe what our codependent histories have been like. We believe that recovery begins with an honest self-diagnosis. We came to accept our inability to maintain healthy and nurturing relationships with ourselves and others. We begin to recognize that the cause lies in longstanding destructive patterns of living.
