wondering if there are any aa meetings in aruba? wondering if there are any that are held near the resorts? thank you for your help

This is what I found on the http://www.arubabound.com/faq.htm#bill website.

Friends of Bill W.
When you arrive on the island call 838989, leave your first name, hotel and room number and you will receive a fax with meetings for all Twelve-Step groups. There are 27 meetings a week in Aruba (AA, NA, OA, ALANON etc.). They can also pick you up at your hotel to take you to the meeting. top

Keep on top of this question. I did hear in the past there were such meetings. Applauds to you for trying and doing what ever needed to keep your life or whoevers life on course.
No person should ever fault anyone for falling down. Fault only if they do not want to get up.....and then an added ingredient could easily be, not able to get up on their own strength.
Thats when you seeks friends, family and loved ones who can help.
Meetings and seminars and talks etc. etc. help immencely! Talking and sharing with others who understand exactly the circumstances is a form of love.

All the best of luck to you....cal

Please dont ever ever think, This is the way it is and this is the way it is always going to be! Life changes in an instant and in a lot of ways thats wonderful to look forward too. God bless!

Yes there are aa meetings in aruba. When i was there, i stayed at LaCabana, the help desk they have in the lobby had a list with the phone numbers you would need to call.You will proably not speak to a person,you will get a message to leave first name, hotel&room number and they will fax a copy of
meetings in the area.What ever hotel your at,
ask the help desk. Or do some reaserch on the
web prior to going,its better to have all this when you get there.

thank you very much! we appreciate it! Have a great day!

Marg,

When are you going to be in Aruba? We are staying at LaCabana Dec. 26- Jan. 14, 2006 maybe we can get together I'am also in my sixth year of recovery.Our email is dci14729@aol.com contact if you would like.
Mike and Dolores Incorvaia

Yes, there are meetings, even a meeting house dedicated to them. However, you need a car to get to it - it is not located in a tourist area.

Also, from what I understand, the environment is not the same as it is in the US. First off, it more NA (Aruba is very close to Columbia) than AA.

If you have recently started recovery, I would think twice before leaving your support network. It is not the same on Aruba, or anywhere other than where you're used to.

My father spent the better part of the last 5 years in treatment facilities, the "best" centers in the country, but when we were in Aruba last January he . . . I would call it relapse, but it was so much worse than he had ever been.

However, he could have gone anywhere in the world and the same thing would have happened. He could not manage things without his support network, his sponsor, etc.

Temptation is everywhere, and if you have the strength to not give in to it in any foreign envirnoment (i.e. not home), than you'll be fine here.

I live on Aruba now, and I'd be happy to give you a ride to a meeting if you need it.

Greg, speaking from experience of a close family member I think when anyone has alcohol problems or severe depression lasting a long time, severe anxieties meetings etc. are certainly wonderful but they need a complete life style change.
If the life style you lead causes you to "pick up" as they say or depresses you or what ever it does to make you unhappy continually you need a lot more than meetings and/or therapy.
Change is change. 95% of the time, if you stay in the same environment, same surroundings, same work atmosphere, same family problems and more, people eventually go back to what got them in tbl. in the first place.

Support groups are great also but when your A.D.L (active daily living) is affecting your life, no matter what it takes, change your life style and circumstances. What sense does it make to have a great job in a beautiful home and not be happy?
At all cost and consideration you need to get away from what put you where you are in the first place.
Hanging in there and all that is fine but when your circumstances turns you to the vices and is heading you down the road to destruction, get away and get away quick before an extremely life threatening occurence happens.
If you want to change a bad circumstance you must change the circumstance causing the problem, no matter what it takes and no matter how hard it is to make the change!
Nothing is worth your life as a sacrifice!

AA meetings saved many lives and helped tons of good people. But you shouldn't have to go to them all your life to cope with bad circumstances in your life that can be, if you really want it too, be changed for good.
I admire immencely people who realize they have a true problem that they cannot fix themselves and reach out for the help they need. Sharing thoughts and stories with people who know how they feel inside and not with outsiders, so to speak, who do not understand an uncontrollable vice.
These good people are drinking and all the rest of the vices, knowing all along they are doing wrong and they hate themselves for it but they need help and understanding.

God bless all you people who are reaching out for help and I lived a long time with it with a close family member. They stumbled a long time and until they made some major changes in their life, they never would have really made it.

Nice of you to offer rides, Greg, God bless!

Cal -
I couldn't agree more. What brings you to the Aruba pages?

I agree with Cal as well. His posts appear to have depth and understanding of human nature. Like the song goes, people who need people are the luckiest people in the world.