Brett Pascoe has been involved in the alternative health industry for over a decade and is a holistic therapist specialising in the area of recreational drug recovery.

After surviving a past of physical, emotional and spiritual pain, savage substance abuse, addiction, suicidal depression, drug-psychosis and then a spiritual rebirth, Brett Pascoe, the founder and Director of the centre believes that his own devastating drug experiences were beneficial as they showed him his destiny. He believes that rather than being a waste of time, his past was a gift and he had a vision of opening a healing centre where others who had been on the same path as him could find inspiration and turn their lives around. This led him to open the Post Drug Healing and Training Centre.

The Post Drug Healing and Training Centre is a place where creativity, excitement and inspiration are the tools, where the staff have non-judgmental attitudes and where people can come to understand their past, heal and move forwards to a fantastic future. It is a place to rebuild yourself in accord with your destiny and awaken the spirit force within.

Brett Pascoe has been involved in the alternative health industry for over a decade and is a holistic therapist specialising in the area of recreational drug recovery for the last 6 years. He is qualified in Massage therapy, Shiatsu, Reflexology, Acupressure , SLM Myotherapy, and the Raynor Technique.Brett has been trained by Leaders in the industry both drug recovery and healing "international Author,lecturer, world innovator in recreationalrug therapist "JOST SAUER in all aspects of POST DRUG HIGH and World Famous "BRANDON RAYNOR". He has also trained in health retreats and on programs of internal cleansing, fasting and life extension. Brett has been a lecturer for many years, teaching at internationally renowned Massage and Natural Therapies Schools in Australia, Europe, USA and Canada. He is now the founder and director of the Post Drug Healing and Training Centre and his life purpose and passion is to bring all his past experience to his work on changing the future of recreational drug-users & help open the door to freedom for those who are struggling with addictions of many kinds in their lives..

Brett’s own history of substance use began . . .

with cigarettes at age 10, marijuana at 13 and then alcohol at 15. From then on his life spiralled downwards. With a background of emotional and physical abuse he became a binge-drinker. His teenage years passed in a blur of alcohol and marijuana. At 23 he went clubbing and tried ecstasy and loved the way it made him feel; all inhibition was gone and he couldn’t believe how connected he felt to other people. He chased that state with ecstasy for as long as possible. When it started to lose its effects he discovered cocaine and was hooked within a week. When the cocaine drought hit, he turned to speed and then ice and quickly became addicted to that.

Throughout the subsequent years of drug abuse and addiction, he battled severe depression. The more drugs he used the worse it got. But he couldn’t stop. He checked into Drug Rehab twice in 12 months and also tried antidepressants but felt spiritually dead and not himself. By the time he was 30 he entered a period of intense drug abuse, he went through his savings, cashed in his shares, took out a loan against his car and spent it all on drugs. He sold everything he owned at pawn brokers. In his final binge he spent $17,000 in ten days. Eventually family and friends lost faith in him, he lost his home, his car and his job. he was reduced to sleeping in public toilets for a brief time in his life. His doctor gave him a one percent chance of being able to beat his addictions and survive. Brett desperately wanted to stop and entered into a rehab program again but was frightened it wouldn’t work. After two weeks he was asked to leave as he wanted to talk about the spiritual experiences he felt he had had on drugs.Eventually everything Brett had achieved materially,he was pennyless and spirtually bankrupt

DEPRESSION

For Brett life seemed to stop whenever he stopped using drugs. He was obsessed for years about drug-taking and Thursday to Sunday nights (the nights he used to binge) were extremely difficult to deal with. He experienced terrible depression and ongoing psychosis and cravings. He slid into a vortex of pain and depression. Feeling angry, sad, hopeless and emotionally and spiritually dead, he would shut the doors, close the blinds, take the phone off the hook and make the house as dark as possible. He would sometimes sit in a dark cupboard all day long and avoid people for months. All sense of human connection was gone, all feeling was gone and without drugs he didn’t know how to find it again. His life was purely about pain, darkness and fear: the fear of using drugs again but also the fear of the condemnation and judgement that using again would bring on.

He was trapped in an inner hell that went on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. His body ached from the inside out and he felt he was drowning in it. One reason he kept returning to drug use was to stop the sadness and make the blackness go away - even for a few hours. Afterwards though, the pain and darkness was amplified a thousand times over. He tried to sleep to avoid the depression but ended up with disturbed sleep patterns and terrifying panic attacks. The worst part was not knowing if it was going to ever end, if the cloud would ever lift or if there was any hope.

CRAVINGS

Cravings became the centre of his universe. When they hit he would feel unstable, aggressive, irrational, manipulative and desperate. It seemed that the only thing that could make them stop was taking drugs again. This would allow him to feel comfort, peace and a connection with humanity. He tried NA and AA but the idea of fighting the cravings seemed to intensify the problem.

PSYCHOSIS

He also went through psychosis which started after about 2 years of amphetamine use. After a big binge he became extremely paranoid. He drove around in circles thinking that people were following him, he was sure there were surveillance cameras mounted everywhere and he called the police to report it. That episode lasted for about two weeks, but every time he returned to the area it happened in, it would ignite it again. All sorts of things could set the psychosis off and he ended up unable to look anyone in the eye for two years and could not hold a conversation with anyone as it would bring on panic attacks or terrible visions. He could not go to clubs or even to public places for two years without looking over his shoulder.From that moment on his life was never the same.

SPIRITUAL REDEMPTION

Then one day he had a life-changing spiritual experience. He was sitting at his computer in a drug haze, online, and a spirit sat beside him and started channelling information about how he needed to live his life. He felt he had someone with him working through his whole life and talking to him about his future. He knew it was a real experience (with drugs it had always been psychosis or hallucinations) as in the state he was in, he was far too ‘selfish’ to have ever come up with a vision like that. He wrote down everything. He had the insight that he had to go through the process of the addiction and despair to be able to help others. The vision of opening a healing centre for drug-users came to him and he understood that everything he had been through was a part of the process. But he was also told that if he kept taking the drugs he would meet absolute destruction. He knew that but also knew that he had to go as low as he possibly could, to know that he could come back from rock bottom.

The spiritual experience was the driving force in his recovery. It showed him what he wanted to do with his life and gave him purpose. He did keep using drugs for several more months but during that time he wrote his business plan and knew things could change and that he had the strength to make his vision a reality. He would keep reading his plan over and over again and it slowly became more real.
He eventually gave up drugs by going and doing hard physical work in the country for a few months until he felt strong enough to face his old environment again. The symptoms of psychosis kept coming back though and he had to start making changes in his life to avoid this. He stopped staying up late, gave up coffee and eating bad food. After he quit drugs he put on a lot of weight but this forced him to start dieting and exercise and he saved up money and got a personal trainer. He went from 142 – 90 kilos in 18months. He did a massage course and that stopped the cravings for a month. He was inspired and became a voluntary trainee. This put him on the path.

Throughout all the terrible experiences he had, he always had the underlying feeling that there was a purpose in life, that he could turn his past into something of benefit. He now believes that the long periods of depression allowed him to deal with the suppressed pain of his past and the abuse that he had kept buried in his psyche. It allowed him to really explore his deepest fears. The cravings showed him that he was resourceful beyond what he had imagined and they became a force driving him forward to achieve his goal and find inner peace. The psychosis made him seek a more balanced life. He knew how devastating the harsh judgement of others about drug-users was, and all of this inspired him to find a new drug recovery model. The pieces slowly fell into place when he worked out what the existing systems were not offering and what his ideal recovery would have been: a process of self-realisation and empowerment not guilt and judgement.

Brett ,has been happily drug/alcohol/subsatance/ciggarette,sugar -free for six years. He has no interest in drugs or alcohol, he has recaptured the highs that drugs once gave him and devotes two hours each morning to his exercise, spiritual practice, yoga and Qi-gong. He has achieved his dreams and believes that everyone can as well. The Post Drug Healing and Training centre is a place to help people do this.