Hi MissMarie,
Welcome to SR and well done on 17 days
Have you been to any meetings as yet? Can you identify what the problem is that is stopping you from going?
I'm not sure where you are located and if you have open meetings but perhaps you could ask your brother to go with you? Otherwise BB's suggestion is a good one.
I set myself a meeting schedule each week, commit to going, then go. I think of my meetings like I would think of any other appt. I make the appt. and go.
For me, if I don't feel like going to a meeting I know it is at those times it is more important that I go. In the beginning I stuck to the same meetings but now (69 days sober) I am starting to branch out and go to different meetings and I am enjoying meeting and hearing from new people. I also have not encountered an unfriendly meeting.
You can do it MissMarie! One foot in front of he other.