Jbird,
i went to Lifering meetings, and for the first few months, they almost always "made me" want to drink. it was disconcerting, to say the least.
i figured out that it was the hour-long concentrated focus on hearing and talking about drinking that did it....in my "outside-of-meetings-life" even at the beginning there were little breathing spaces from that concentration.
but i just kept going, because i firmly believed that looking at the things that "make me want to drink" is of benefit to me and that "i want to drink" in no way means i will. and i was convinced that the problem wasn't in the meeting making me want to drink, but somewhere in how i reacted to the meeting.
has been a long time since i've had that reaction to a meeting.