My Journey.

Leon’s Story.

My own personal healing journey takes me back at least 30 years and a great part of this healing has come from my openness to share it with others, which is a great healing gift in itself. One of my goals is to get more people to understand this.

My name is Leon Emmett and it all began when I was 3 years old. Until this point, I had a normal, loving family. Through the selfishness of a family member, my father was put into prison and my mother, older brother Dean and I were made homeless. After a while, we moved into an abandoned house which was falling apart, with no electricity or heating. It was here, in despair and surrounded by other lost souls that heroin was introduced to my mother’s life.

Learning to cope.

Throughout the early years of my life, my parents were ravaged by drug addiction. They were incapable of caring for themselves let alone 2 children. They would take it in turns to go to prison for stealing or fraud, which was to fuel their heroin habit. During these bouts of prison, my brother would spend time with family and I would spend time with friends, who were also dysfunctional. One particular bout my mother was jailed and my father and I were homeless. We used to feed ourselves from the local supermarket waste bin. I have a very vivid recollection of walking into a local school by myself at 6 years old and asking the headteacher for an education. Many many times stealing money to feed myself from the pockets of half-naked heroin addicts, asleep with needles hanging from their groins.

The social services were introduced into my life around 7 years old where I wasn’t at school and showing obvious signs of family collapse. When Dean reached 18 years old and moved out of the family home, I spent the rest of my childhood with several different foster carers. Dean refused to leave me in the care of my parents any longer. They were beyond help.

The catalyst for change.

The tragic news of my brother’s death from a heroin overdose when I was 12 years old was a big catalyst in my life.

I have always been a fearless warrior. I have always had a very strong instinct for survival and these traumatic but nourishing experiences lit a big fire in me and I began manifesting my future world. Fast forward 18 years, having built a large engineering business, happily married with a beautiful family, achieving so many incredibly impossible things in my life…. Why wasn’t I happy…..?? I followed the rulebook for happiness and success. I ticked all the boxes.. BUT it was not enough to keep the shadows of my past traumas from creeping back into my life. There were closets full of skeletons that I hadn’t dealt with and I knew it.

And then I discovered and fell in love with the indescribable healing power of Breathwork, which is the most potent tool for long-lasting positive change in my life. My personal ‘Rebirthing’ breathwork practice allows me to shake off much residual angst and allowed me a much greater love and respect for everything in my life, including my parents who bought me into this world.