BRC Recovery

I love love BRC. My life was an absolute disaster before BRC. Now, my life couldn’t get much better. I’ve almost been sober for three years… but I’m not only sober, I’m happy, have a profession, will have a degree in March, have a great relationship with my folks, and have the best friends a guy could have.

Benchmark Recovery Center (BRC Recovery) (
) in Manor, Texas, (near Austin) helped our family immeasurably. When we found Benchmark, we liked it because it didn’t feel clinical, like the centers we had dealt with a few years earlier. With those, we did not feel as though we were part of the program — they operated independently of us, which we believe made them less effective. Although I think an alcoholic or addict needs to be ready to do the work necessary for recovery, after seeing the transformation in our son’s life during his time at BRC Recovery, we believe wholeheartedly in their mission. We also heard one AA speaker say that BRC Recovery is the only recovery center she supports because of its success compared to other centers.
BRC Recovery uses a three-​tiered approach to treatment and they work with people seeking help for the first time and with chronic relapsers. First is the residential treatment center; second, when residents graduate, they move to sober living apartments. The third tier, the Segue program, is optional. Those enrolled in the 12-​month Segue program are assigned a recovery coach who follows up with them on a weekly basis and helps them acclimate to living life on its terms. The goal for each person in recovery is to live life sober and unsupervised.
The staff at BRC Recovery has a genuine concern for the clients. We felt it was a true partnership, because we were included in the decision-​making process at every step. There were a couple of times when the case manager made a decision/​recommendation that we were not comfortable with, and after we let him know our reservations and the reasons for them, he changed his recommendation. The weekly calls with the case manager were extremely helpful and were a great way to keep us informed and connected with the process.
The case manager was great to work with. He was very patient and went out of his way to make sure he had time to answer all our questions during our weekly calls. He also did a great job of helping our son during his stay and of helping us begin our recovery too, because we were classic codependent enablers. He was the buffer and family recovery coach that we so desperately needed, and he helped us realize that we had to change some of our ideas and behaviors too. We had to laugh one time when we were on vacation, and our son told us on our weekly call that he needed cigarettes. We made a plan to buy them at a corner grocery store and find a place to ship them. And then we got the case manager’s email:
«Do not worry about the cigarettes. Your son knew you were going out of town, so if he runs out of cigarettes, he can learn his lesson and plan ahead in the future. I suspect that an old behavior for you both would be to race out to bring cigarettes to your son at your first opportunity, even if it is inconvenient to you. Remember, his recovery will not be hurt in the slightest if you do not get him cigarettes on his timetable. I would suggest waiting until it is convenient for you to bring out cigarettes.»
We read that and burst out laughing — that was exactly what we were going to do!
The Segue recovery coach was great too, and continued to help us with our own recovery from codependency. Our son did not have a car for a while, and when we were worried about him walking to the sober living apartments in heavy rain, we asked the recovery coach if we should contact our son to see if he needed a ride. We were told to let him have his own experience. That was great advice, and sure enough, our son worked it out.
We know that the staff at BRC Recovery has done their best to work with our son and to teach him the skills and give him the tools he needs to stay in recovery. They’ve helped all of us to learn healthier behaviors and ways of interacting, and we are enjoying rebuilding our relationship with a basis of honesty and trust that we have never experienced before. Working our recovery program has been the most difficult and most rewarding work we’ve ever done.
We’re also learning to live by some of the sayings they use: «trust the process,» «everything happens for a reason,» «it was meant to be,» and «progress, not perfection.» At first, they sounded trite, but now we understand the power in those statements. We’re so grateful we found Benchmark! If your family is facing issues with addiction, we wholeheartedly recommend BRC Recovery!

This place saved my life, I have been trying to get sober forever and haven’t been successful, I finally feel like I have a shot, and a completely different outlook on recovery, if you are done using drugs or drinking for good, this is the place to go!

Benchmark Recovery Center was my fourth treatment center. When I arrived I thought I knew everything there was to know about recovery and the twelve steps. I was wrong. Benchmark offers a solution to addiction unlike any of my previous rehabs. I had no plan on even trying this way of life but I am confident I was taught everything I need to know. The entire staff are very active in recovery and you can be sure that anything they tell you to do they have done themselves.

After two decades of failed attempts to get sober, my family found Benchmark Recovery Center. I was mangled and hopeless. My life was a mess, and my family was exhausted and devastated from watching me slowly kill myself. Unlike the revolving door of other facilities I had been to, the staff at Benchmark knew exactly how to help me and gave me the time I needed to get well. For the first time in my life, I was able to hear the truth about myself and my alcoholism. I listened and did what was asked of me. It has been over three years since I arrived there. Today, I am not only still sober, but relationships with my family and children have been rebuilt. I have a job I love and a life of happiness and purpose. I can not say enough about the life changing experience I had at Benchmark Recovery Center, nor the gratitude I feel for the caring staff that guided and directed me. Highly recommend.