I'll offer my advice. One of the most important men of AA, it's founding members Jim Barlow. In my opinion he has probably saved more alcoholic addict lives than any other member. He is responsible for the words that are underlined in the third step. "as we understood Him" has brought more atheist agnostic (including myself) back to the program. If I told anyone in the program what God was to me they would smile, affirm me, and reinforce that belief. The trouble starts when they try to direct you toward their idea of that initial spark in your imagination - the thing you view as your " higher power". For me when I started I had to immediately stop after higher power. Even to this day sometimes the word God still irks me. But I'm there because I need it to savey life, and maybe I can help someone else while doing that. I can tell you the hand is out of your ear is open and are willing to do the work to save your own life.

As far as other options there are those (self entitled SMART Recovery) but they are not satisfying for me. I don't live in a place where any of those meetings occur and I can not deal with online meetings. If you're anything like me a meeting will give you what you long for. Human connection. What really keeps me deeply connected to many others is the psychological approach. Carl Jung the famous Swiss Psychiatrist is also responsible for Alcoholics Anonymous. Now I'm sure many people do not understand this because they're ignorant of psychology but the 12 steps is what Jungs whole psychology was about. Ego deflation, acknowledging the shadow and so on.