The Official Website of Author Mark D. Houston
A Twelve-Step Journey to SELF-Transformation
BIOGRAPHY OF MARK HOUSTON
Mark Houston has been heralded as a leader and innovator in the field of addiction recovery. Mark is the President of the Mark Houston Recovery Center, a facility whose program encourages individuals to discover and heal the deeper causes behind their addiction. His approach to helping others achieve a life of permanent sobriety stems from the belief that there are specific disciplines and practices that you can introduce into your life that will lead you not only to a life of permanent sobriety, but to experience a life filled with authentic joy, love and fun.
Mark’s own journey of transformation
An alcoholic for many years of his life, Mark has experienced the insanity of addiction and the struggle to overcome it. The journey was long and arduous and almost ended in tragedy. It was in this struggle to sobriety that Mark would uncover realizations that would not only change his life, but also led to the opening of the Texas based Mark Houston Recovery Center.
Though sobering up in October of 1982, Mark found that living life on life’s terms without having replaced the alcohol and drugs with a daily set of spiritual practices and disciplines left him feeling depressed and fearful. His life had turned around on the outside, working for two different companies in Colorado in retail sales and marketing and then moving to Texas where Mark was working for a highly respected Texas residential treatment center and existing in a way that to most seemed ideal. Over time Mark begin to incorporate several daily practices and ideas into his life which had a profound impact on his capacity to experience and enjoy the fullness of Life sober. Just being sober Mark knew was not sufficient, a journey into manifesting his potential into every area of his life became his driving passion.
For Mark, the journey was over a decade in the making. He felt compelled to share with others what he had learned through his process of recovery. If he had been miserable in sobriety, were others? He began to speak about his experiences, creating a library of over 200 tapes, one of which eventually fell upon the ears of Floyd Henderson, a recovering alcoholic who related so deeply with Mark’s story and his fresh perspective on recovery that he tracked Mark down to find out more.
The book, A Twelve-Step Journey to Self Transformation is a unique account of the journey of Mark Houston and Floyd Henderson as they take the journey from addiction, through recovery, and eventually to a state of complete life fulfillment. Like the process of addiction recovery, this book was not created overnight. It documents seven years of collected experiences. It documents the founding principals that would later manifest in physical form as the Mark Houston Recovery Center—the recommended program for those who need a longer continuum of care.
The Mark Houston Recovery Center: The logical next step for those who have relapsed or that require a longer continuum of care
Having taken the journey of addiction recovery personally and after working with some of the most reputable Texas residential treatment center facilities over the years, Mark became aware that many people—people like himself, like Floyd Henderson, and perhaps like you—needed more than a clinical and cognitive approach to sobriety. He felt that recovering addicts desperately needed a longer continuum of care where they could experience the journey of self transformation. Self transformation isn’t something that can be taught; it’s something that must occur from within through a series of successes, failures, and realizations.
The process experiential journey documented in the book A Twelve-Step Journey to Self Transformation eventually became the founding principals of the Mark Houston Recovery Center. Today, Texas residential treatment centers and other rehab facilities throughout the US refer patients that require a longer continuum of care to the Mark Houston Recovery Center. Here, they build on their knowledge and discover how to not only achieve a life of permanent sobriety, but to achieve a life rich with laughter and genuine fulfillment.
Mark’s approach to achieving a satisfying life of permanent sobriety is based on generating strength and sanity from within. Throughout the 90 day program, residents live the principals of the twelve steps and practice disciplines designed to establish emotional sobriety, mental sobriety, spiritual sobriety, and physical sobriety.
"Now, I invite you to take a few moments to browse the site and read an excerpt from our book on recovery, entitled "A Twelve-Step Journey to SELF-Transformation. Then take a few moments to explore the variety of other self-help and spiritual growth books being offered. "Mark D. Houston
Mark Houston spends his time with an intense focus on being present to the moment, working out, reading, meditating, spending time with friends, working, sharing time with his cats Bill and Hobo, working as a writer on upcoming recovery books, twelve-steps books, and self-help books, and most of all enjoying the silence which he has grown to love.