100: Patchwork Junkie with Kyle Dean Houston
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.7 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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On today’s episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane sits down with father, husband, sales executive, speaker, and author Kyle Dean Houston. They speak about being in the throes of addiction, despairing for hope, staring down your own doom, and ultimately persevering through recovery.
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Kyle openly describes trying methamphetamines and quickly spiraling into a needle-using meth user. At rock bottom, Kyle was overcome with depression and tried to overdose, but failed. He talks about spending months in county jail trying to learn to make the right decisions. Making and breaking promises to his family, Kyle eventually realized that he was powerless over his own actions and he couldn’t continue to live that way. Coming to grips with the role that the brain plays in your addiction was crucial during this time.
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The moment that really changed everything was when he realized he could have a purpose for his life. Being alone in jail put Kyle in the position to finally start thinking about what he could actually do to change his life. His relationship with God and the spiritual goes back to his childhood, but in the moments alone in jail, his understanding of the spiritual really opened up. He began to see the full weight of his own ability to take control of his life. It struck him like a hammer, he says. He says that in the jail cell, he never felt so alone.
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In transitioning out of prison, Kyle was institutionalized and he was scared to death. He knew that people were aware of his problems, his PTSD, and he felt prison would’ve been better. But only five months later, he met his future-wife, who would go on to be his rock and cornerstone. Kyle credits her for virtually all of his success. That, and his intense drive to accomplish what he sets out to do.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast. My name is Dwayne Austerland, and I'm your host. Today's guest is |
| 0:14.9 | Kyle Houston, and he is the author of Patchwork Junkie, a story of his life of addiction and redemption, |
| 0:26.7 | all the way from being arrested for cooking methamphetamine to being in prison and facing a 30-year prison |
| 0:37.4 | sentence, eventually getting out in 10, being in prison and facing a 30-year prison sentence, eventually getting out in 10, |
| 0:41.0 | being in isolation, and in a way finding himself and finding meaning and purpose and value |
| 0:49.5 | on the outside. It was great talking to Kyle. You could tell, or at least I could tell, he was just so |
| 0:56.9 | passionate about giving back to the world through his writing and his story. So it was great to have |
| 1:05.8 | him on the podcast. I really enjoyed talking with him. Also, before we start, if you are enjoying the Addicted Mind podcast, please rate and review |
| 1:14.7 | us in iTunes and join our Facebook group. |
| 1:18.6 | Go to Facebook and type in the Addicted Mind podcast and click join. |
| 1:22.9 | It'd be great to see you there online as well. |
| 1:27.1 | And I'm looking for people who are willing to share |
| 1:31.0 | their story of hope. You can go to theaddictivemind.com forward slash hope and record two minutes |
| 1:39.7 | of audio of your story of hope. What recovery has been like for you and how you're healing or what |
| 1:48.4 | works for you. It can also be a poem or a quote or something that's meaningful to you to be |
| 1:56.3 | able to share your voice on the podcast as well. I'm putting those together and I really appreciate it. |
| 2:02.9 | If that's a fit for you, you would do that. Just go to the addictedmind.com forward slash hope. |
| 2:07.9 | All right, let's start this episode. |
| 2:14.4 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast. My guest today is Kyle Houston, author of Patchwork |
| 2:23.4 | Junkie. And Kyle, why don't you introduce yourself? Sure, no problem. First of all, I just want to thank you. |
| 2:30.0 | This is, it's always great when people do their best to give a platform for conversations like this. |
| 2:35.7 | So I really appreciate it. |
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