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Recovery meetings

Twelve-step recovery meetings in St. Augustine

Independent AA, ACA, CoDA, SAA, OA and Marijuana Anonymous groups meet at CSL First City, 93D Orange St., St. Augustine, FL 32084, with at least one meeting every day of the week. Most meetings are in person and many are open to anyone. Times and formats are listed below.

These meetings are listed on the CSL First City website for informational purposes only. Each group is self-supporting and is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution, including CSL First City.

AA

Alcoholics Anonymous

  • Monday, 12:00 PMLanguage of the HeartPlain Big Book
  • Tuesday, 7:00 AMAs Bill Sees ItLiterature
  • Wednesday, 12:00 PMLanguage of the HeartOpen, 12 & 12 (4th Wednesday: Traditions)
  • Friday, 12:00 PMLanguage of the HeartOpen Big Book

CSL First City is home to many AA meetings. These groups do not endorse or lend their names to CSL First City, so as not to violate Tradition Six.

Please use the AA Meeting Guide app to confirm the latest meeting details in the St. Augustine area.

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ACA

Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families

  • Tuesday, 12:00 PMPeeling the Onion (FL0433)Open discussion — Big Red Book fellowship text and Strengthening My Recovery daily reader
  • Thursday, 12:00 PMPeeling the Onion (FL0433)Open step study — Yellow Book

Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA)/Dysfunctional Families is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition program of people who grew up in dysfunctional homes. We meet to share our experience of growing up in an environment where abuse, neglect and trauma infected us. This affects us today and influences how we deal with every part of our lives.

ACA provides a safe, nonjudgmental environment that allows us to grieve our childhoods and conduct an honest inventory of ourselves and our family, so we may identify and heal core trauma, experience freedom from shame and abandonment, and become our own loving parents.

Meetings are in English, in person, open to all, and held in the meeting room at CSL First City. Love offering.

The 14 Traits of an Adult Child (The Laundry List)
  1. We became isolated and afraid of people and authority figures.
  2. We became approval seekers and lost our identity in the process.
  3. We are frightened by angry people and any personal criticism.
  4. We either become alcoholics, marry them or both, or find another compulsive personality such as a workaholic to fulfill our sick abandonment needs.
  5. We live life from the viewpoint of victims and are attracted by that weakness in our love and friendship relationships.
  6. We have an overdeveloped sense of responsibility, and it is easier for us to be concerned with others rather than ourselves; this enables us not to look too closely at our own faults.
  7. We get guilt feelings when we stand up for ourselves instead of giving in to others.
  8. We became addicted to excitement.
  9. We confuse love and pity and tend to “love” people we can “pity” and “rescue.”
  10. We have “stuffed” our feelings from our traumatic childhoods and have lost the ability to feel or express our feelings because it hurts so much (denial).
  11. We judge ourselves harshly and have a very low sense of self-esteem.
  12. We are dependent personalities who are terrified of abandonment and will do anything to hold on to a relationship in order not to experience painful abandonment feelings, which we received from living with sick people who were never there emotionally for us.
  13. Alcoholism is a family disease; we became para-alcoholics and took on the characteristics of that disease even though we did not pick up the drink.
  14. Para-alcoholics are reactors rather than actors.

— Tony A., 1978

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CoDA

Co-Dependents Anonymous — Discovering CoDA

  • Monday, 6:00 PMDiscovering CoDAOpen, co-ed literature discussion
  • Thursday, 9:00 AMDiscovering CoDAOpen, co-ed literature discussion

A Co-Dependents Anonymous meeting focused on recovery from codependence through working the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. This open, co-ed, literature-based meeting explores CoDA-approved literature as members share experience, strength and hope while learning to build healthy, loving relationships.

The only requirement for membership is a desire for healthy and loving relationships. All are encouraged to share or simply listen. Newcomers are always welcome.

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Discovering CoDA meeting flyer: Mondays at 6 PM and Thursdays at 9 AM at CSL First City
SAA

Sex Addicts Anonymous — Esteemable Acts Group

  • Tuesday, 6:00 PMEsteemable Acts GroupIn person, closed, round robin, co-ed, Green Book literature

A closed, co-ed SAA meeting held in person at 93D Orange Street, following a round-robin format based on the SAA Green Book.

OA

Overeaters Anonymous — Saturday Serenity

  • Saturday, 10:00 – 11:00 AMSaturday SerenityClosed, co-ed

A closed, co-ed OA meeting with a rotating weekly format.

Meeting format

  • 1st Saturday: Big Book
  • 2nd Saturday: Leader’s choice
  • 3rd Saturday: Step of the month (OA Twelve and Twelve)
  • 4th Saturday: Speaker — or Tradition of the month if there is no speaker
  • 5th Saturday: Leader’s choice
MA

Marijuana Anonymous

  • Sunday, 5:00 PMLiterature meetingOpen, co-ed — Life with Hope

An open, co-ed literature meeting: anyone is welcome to attend, members and non-members alike. We read together from MA’s Life with Hope and related literature as a way of sharing the program’s tools and experience.

Marijuana Anonymous is a peer-support recovery program built on the same Twelve Steps that have helped people get and stay free from addiction for decades. It is simple: one person who has been there, helping another person who is there now. You don’t have to have it figured out. You just need a desire to stop using. No fees, no dues.

Marijuana Anonymous “Welcome to Paradise” flyer: Sundays at 5 PM at CSL First City Teaching Chapter, 93D Orange Street

Week at a glance

Recovery meetings by day

All meetings are held at 93D Orange St., St. Augustine, FL 32084. Times are Eastern.

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Looking for support beyond the meeting room?

Rev. Sherri offers confidential pastoral care for recovery, grief and life transitions, and our Grief Life Circles hold space for any kind of loss.

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