We Will Find What Helps Us, Also Helps Our Kids Our Presenter, Kathy Saval, received her MSW from the University of Michigan, has over 30 years in recovery and is raising her 4 sons as a sober mom!Listen as she shares her...
Connecting Women in Recovery
Annual Picnic at Gallup Park
Our Annual Picnic at Gallup Park is fun for the entire family! We will have our child care staff on hand to play games with the kids. Past years games included a three-legged race, water balloon toss and a sack race! Your main entree will be provided along with...
Free childcare at recovery meetings
The Ann Arbor Women’s Group’s free childcare program fulfills a crucial need for parents in recovery. Since December 2010 A2WG has provided safe, free childcare while parents attend their 12 step meetings.
About our monthly events
Relaxing and fun
Movies and ice cream
Jewelry making
Family picnic at the lake
Informative
Health and Wellness
Taxes and Finance
Sponsorship
Spiritual
Meditation
Labyrinth Walks
Yoga
Enhance Your Recovery
Women who make strong bonds in recovery tend to have longevity in sobriety. The Arbor Women’s Group bridges the gap for women, and we do it in a FUN way! A2WG conducts monthly activities to strengthen and enhance women’s recovery through fun, informative, healthy events. Our events, workshops and retreats are free, low-cost, and/or scholarship based.
Featured Blog Posts
Staying On Point: Balance And Rebalance
“Do I have enough vodka to get through the day?” This was always the question before I got sober. If the answer was “yes,” I could focus on the little things like, what were my son and I going to have for dinner that day, or did I have an exam that day that I needed...
Zoom: Meeting In The Future
My coworker sent me this video the other day. A lawyer was in an online hearing and there was a “filter” on his camera, meaning the computer was making him appear to be a talking cat to the other people in the meeting. He didn’t know how to turn off...
Codependency: A Series – Part 3/3 (Living that Non-Codependent Life!)
I lost one of my best friends recently. Sugar. Sugar has been there for me every day since I got sober from alcohol. In early sobriety, in rehab, I couldn’t get enough of Tootsie Rolls. Those little individually wrapped brown chunks of bliss. At one point, I had my...
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Women’s Recovery Retreat
The Women’s Recovery Retreat is the first weekend in August. It starts Friday evening and ends Sunday afternoon. One-third of the ladies that go to this event will go on scholarship. No car? No problem. We match the ladies up for a fun carpool ride to the retreat center.
The three-day retreat has:
- recovery workshop
- great food, snacks, fresh baked goods to take home
- yoga, labyrinth walking, quiet reflection, recovery meetings
- S’mores making at the beachside fire pit, drumming, dancing
- swimming, sunbathing, lounging, fellowshipping
- the “no-talent” talent show
- crafts and a charm ceremony
- and more…
Lake Huron Retreat Center
If you’ve never been to an A2WG 3-day retreat, you are in for a treat! The retreat center has hotel-like accommodations and sits on Lake Huron in Port Huron, MI. It’s absolutely beautiful and peaceful there. Writing about it just won’t do it justice. Watch the video on this page.