Why Mark Houston Recovery?

We will allow our resident’s to tell you why choose Mark Houston Recovery:

• MHR is impeccable with their word
  
• Very smooth and organized


• They attack every part of the disease


• The staff from the top down really cares about recovery


• Great setting, doesn’t feel clinical


• They hold us accountable


• The community comes first


• There is a brotherhood here I haven’t had anywhere else


• They turn us into men…


• All same gender = less distraction


• Everything is personalized and individualized


• They get us to our true self


• I can’t hide out or isolate


• Very clear directions


• The personal trainers help us get in shape, we don’t just work out, and we learn how to do it the right way.


• Live and work the 12 Steps (10, 11, & 12 everyday)


• The structure here is unlike anything I have ever had. I have to attend everything.


• Gave me a new understanding of what recovery is supposed to be.


• Steel-on-Steel is something I had never experienced. It’s amazing!


• They give us the whole package – body, mind & spirit


• They prepare us for life’s challenges and make us better people


• Very life based, everything is done by experience


• It’s about teaching us how to do life


• I am gaining life skills


• I get spiritual and practical experience through action


• You don’t learn it, you live it.


• Common sense financial classes


• They wake you up. I was asleep in my life before MHR. I had no idea what I was missing.


• There is not an emphasis on the finish line; it’s about where we are today.


• You sign up, you suit up and all the cards are on the table from the beginning.


• Very dynamic


• Everyone is treated exactly the same


• The speaker meetings are great.


• We are shown by the staff how to do sobriety and live life and not told how to do it.


• They take us to the right outside meetings, very stable with lots of support.


• Fellowship – the alumni come back and they sponsor and speak to us


• MHR models “real life”


• Staff is behind vision – staff in recovery


• Safe environment


• Longer length of stay important – better than 30 day treatment


• Education vs. Experiential… MHR is all experience


• Residents are proud to be a part of MHR


• Structure – Disciplines – Consequences


• LIMITED communication with outside… keeps the focus


• Nutrition


• Work Ethic – as well as cooking, cleaning, doing laundry for ourselves.


• Small communities – no one “left behind”


• Medical Team in Recovery


• Buddy System


• Learning how to have FUN again


• Learn how to be “men” at MHR


• Sober living Transitional Homes


• Follow-Up Care provided – ADAP


• Accountability / Responsibility