DJ and broadcaster Milly Chowles speaks with people from the world of electronic music who are recovering from addiction, mental illness and trauma as she sets out to understand how they came back from the darkest of places and the role that music, art and creativity played in their recovery as well as it's place in their lives now. These are real and raw conversations that explore how inspriring, brave and funny people have turn their past pain into unstoppable passion and purpose.
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DJ and broadcaster Milly Chowles speaks with people from the world of electronic music who are recovering from addiction, mental illness and trauma as she sets out to understand how they came back from the darkest of places and the role that music, art and creativity played in their recovery as well as it's place in their lives now. These are real and raw conversations that explore how inspriring, brave and funny people have turn their past pain into unstoppable passion and purpose.
Follow us on insta @Back2LifePod or @Milly_on_Air_
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After a little break, Back 2 Life returns with a powerful conversation with B2L host, DJ and music industry coach Milly on Air and Ceri - the acclaimed DJ, producer and label owner behind Find Your Own Records and Find Your Own Sound.
Ceri has played at some of the world’s most revered clubs and festivals from Panorama Bar, Fabric, and Amnesia to Drumsheds and Junction 2 but behind the success lies a story of deep healing, resilience, and transformation.
In this episode, Ceri opens up about her journey through chronic illness, how meditation and functional medicine helped her recover, and why connecting to yourself is the key to creativity, both in music and in life.
We talk about:
After this episode, Milly will be re-releasing some of her favourite Back 2 Life conversations from the past three series- dropping every two weeks.
Links:
CERI:
Instgram: https://www.instagram.com/cerimusic/?hl=en
Find Your Own Sound Community https://findyourownsound.com/
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/CeriMusic
MILLY:
Back 2 Life: https://www.instagram.com/back2lifepod/
DJ: https://www.instagram.com/milly_on_air_/
Coaching: https://www.musicindustrycoachmilly.com/
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Back 2 Life is a podcast all about wellbeing, recovery and mental health in the world of electronic music. Hosted by DJ and coach Milly on Air who is in recovery from mental health challenges and 9 years sober from substance addiction.
Today Milly welcomes Music industry ADHD coach Tristan Hunt to the podcast for a deep dive into ADHD.
Tristan works with people from all corners of the music industry, from Glastonbury headline artists to behind the scenes crew, and helps them to understand and manage their symptoms.
Tristan’s own background was in the music industry in various roles throughout his life, most recently he worked for the AFEM in the area of mental health, but it was his own late diagnosis of ADHD at age 40 that inspired him to help others like himself who were struggling to manage the impact ADHD on their lives and careers. Since launching his coaching service a couple of years ago he’s been fully booked and spoken all around the world at conventions such as IMS and ADE which speaks not only to his incredible expertise but to the huge need there is for this amongst the music community.
In this episode we cover :
To find out more about Tristan you can contact him via his website
https://www.tristanhunt.co.uk/
Or follow him on instagram @tristanhuntuk
You can follow the podcast on instagram @back2lifepod and Milly @milly_on_air_
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Welcome to 2025! At what can be a really tricky time of year I’m very happy to share an extremely beautiful, profound and life affirming podcast with you today.
My guest today is Samantha Poulter better known as Logic1000. It really is a deeply moving one, we cover some fairly heavy stuff, such her experiences of psychosis, trauma and recovery but she has such a pure heart and warmth about her it actually never felt heavy to hear. This one’s a special one, it's not everyday you hear someone talking candidly about their experience and so crucially their recovery from psychotic illness. Same describes how she was so anxious she couldn't even take a train to work on her own when she was catapulted into the spotlight with her first major release " Dj Logic, please forgive me"
Sam had been diagnosed with Schizophrenia at age 25 and after a lot of hard work and support, she’s now in her late 30s, is living a fulfilled and love filled life, she’s mother to her young daughter Genie and an internationally acclaimed producer and DJ who’s just come from tour with Peggy Gou, last year she remixed Dua Lipa, Shygirl and released her post partum inspired album” Mother” she makes incredible music, and she also has the most incredible life story that I can’t wait for you hear.
In this episode we cover:
And much more!
Back 2 Life is on instagram @Back2lifepod it's created, produced and hosted by Milly on Air @Milly_on_air_ and you can follow Sam @Logic1000____
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Back 2 Life a podcast that explores the intersection of healing, creativity and electronic music.
It's hosted by Milly on Air a Bristol based DJ and promoter who wanted to connect with and learn from other people who, like herself are navigating being on a healing path, whilst being actively involved with the traditionally hedonistic world of dance music. In this podcast you will hear candid, honest accounts of recovering from mental illness, trauma, addiction, burn out and more and how their own creativity and musical careers have changed along the way.
In this episode Milly speaks to the wonderful incredibly talented, wise, warm and funny Dj, producer and promoter Stevie Cox, originally from Manchester Stevie is now firmly embedded in the legendary Glasgow scene, where she’s a resident ant the mythical Sub Club, she’s also released on optimo music and runs her own queer club night called Love Cycle alongside dance atmos.
In this conversation we cover a lot from her unplanned journey into DJing to what lead to her embarking on a healing journey, which has seen her harness multiple modalities from Reiki, pschedilics, shiatsu massage, and talk therapy.
We also touch on:
-Adhd
-Abuse in the music industry
-PTD and CPTSD
-Somatic thearpies
-Aruvedic philsophy
-Spirituality
-Plant medicine and psilocybin
Tigger Warning: We also touch on some subjects that may be triggering for you, namely narcissistic abuse and also childhood abuse so if you’re feeling that may be a bit raw for you please go carefully of try another episode instead, there’s lots to choose from.
Guest @steviecox_
Host & creator @Milly_on_air_
Podcast @back2lifepod
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Emma Marshall aka Emma The Alchemist is the founder and creator of a methodoldgy rooted in rave culture called Movement is Medicine, newly relaunched as Mim HQ an organisation that focusses on the health benefits, emotional and physical , of dancing to percussion driven club music.
Movement is Medicine bridges the gap between science, fitness, movement, music and rhthym to enhance wellbeing, nervous sysyem regulation and process stress or trauma through workshops, dance classes and education- also as she says in this epiosde, it's a vibe it's a fun and a joyful way to look after yourself.
Whilst experiencing a severe burnout and multiple mystery illnesses in her mid 20s Emma went on a quest to to heal herself, she travelled the world, tried many different modalities and researched the hell out of it, becoming an expert in stress, neuroscience, somatics and combined all that she learned with passion for rave culture and Movement is medicine was born.
Back 2 Life is a podcast is all about healing, mental health and recovery in its many forms, particularly within the world of electronic music. Milly ( Milly on Air) created the idea for this podcast came out of her own experience of starting DJing when I was in recovery from addiction and multiple other mental health challenges.
In this episode we cover:
And so much more! I found this episode incredibly inspiring and helpful and really appreciate Emma's no nonsense approach and unstoppable energy.
Find out more:
Emma:Instagram @emma.the.alchemist @mimhq.co.uk
Back 2 Life @back2lifepod
Milly @milly_on_air_
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Welcome back to season 3 and we're kicking off with a bang as we welcome international icon, trailblazer and recovery warrior Princess Superstar to the pod!
If you're here for the first time, this is a podcast for people in the electronic music community who are interested in healing, sobriety, mental health recovery and the power of creativity and art. Now you may not know that Princess Superstar aka Concetta Kirschner has been completely sober and in recovery from addiction for over 2 decades…she’s an iconic, convention defying powerhouse of an artist who’s recently enjoyed a phoenix like rise to the top of the charts after a decade out in the artistic wilderness ( but as she reveals in the podcast actually enjoying much more success as human being).
Since 1996 she’s released 8 albums and 24 singles and has had massive hits in the Uk in 2002 with Bad Babysitter. She’s also worked with The prodigy, Grandmaster Flash, Armand Van Helden, Moby and many many more. Late last year her 2006 single Perfect ( exceeder) produced by Mason was featured in the film Saltburn and has since re-entered the global charts, had over a 100 million streams, became the crossover club hit of the year and won a gold disc. It's success has seen Concetta, aged 53 go from working a day job to touring the world… for a record she released 17 years ago. If you follow her on instagram you will know what an absolute legend she is, she’s hilarious, wise, eye wateringly candid, and serves some of the most fiecely iconic looks ever, and she is someone who absolutely makes recovery, and working on your shit look very very cool. In this podcast we cover topics such as:
-Early recovery, how she got sober at the height of her fame first time around.
-Addiction to external validation and feeling truly valuable inside
-The pain of not being seen or recognised as an artist and how she overcame that.
-Relationships and loneliness
-Authenticity and performing in sobriety
-Redefining success- why fame, money and busyness are not her defionition of true success
-Ageing, fillers, toxic beauty standards- why she is celebrating ageing rather than trying to hide it.
-The fear of losing your creativity in early recovery, how she found even more power on the other side of that fear.
and so much more!
Back 2 Life is an independent DIY podcast hosted and produced by Milly on Air, a DJ, broadcaster and person in long term recovery.
Follow us:
@back2lifepod
@Milly_on_Air
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Back 2 Life is a podcast about recovering from mental illness, adiction, burn out, greif, trauma or simply from being human and the role that music and creativity plays in the healing process. Season 2 is foccussed on the world of electronic music with the mission of opening up this urgent yet taboo subject by speaking to artists about their personal journeys.
Music and art can give voice to feelings and experiences that we can’t articulate in other ways, it can bring joy in sad times and enable us to process pain, to find community and so much more. I’ll be talking about all this today with 'ones' who’s real name is Primo he’s just released his debut EP Far Too Long which is "an incredibly emotive and dynamic body of work taking on the themes of heartbreak, loneliness, depression and destigmatizing the all too familiar issues of mental health, giving listeners an unflinchingly raw insight into ones personal diary."
In this episode we talk about:
- his unique approcah to making music
- his jouney through mental health challenges
-how creating music helped him process and recognise his experiences
- healing generational trauma
-finding community through music
-Disscociative Identity Disorder
-co-dependency
-using social media on his own terms
and much more!
Follow ones on ig here @_onmyones
Listen to ones music https://linktr.ee/_onmyones
Follow the pod @back2lifepod
Follow Milly @Milly_on_air_
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Today's guest is the incredible multi- talented Lauren Flax, recently crowned " Underground Hero" by DJ Mag she truly is a hero not only musically but also in her political activism and with work she does with the organistaion Last Night A DJ Saved My Life which gives access to Narcan ( aka Nalaxone) to help reduce accidental overdoses due to Fentanyl. Aside from all this Lauren has been on a true heroes journey personally. she's been on a healing path for 10 year and sober for 6 of them. Lauren attributes her recent success and long overdue recognition to the intense personal work she's been doing in this time and the perspective shift that has enabled her to step into her true authenicity.
This conversation moved me so deeply and comes with a Trigger Warning as she does share about her experience of childhood sexual abuse :
Lauren speaks about:
-Finding belonging and acceptance as a queer person in the rave scenes of Detroit and New York.
-Harm reduction, drugs awareness and her work with Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
-Her creative process
-Channelling pain through music
-The healing power of music
-Taking Ayuhasca and how it changed her
-Forgiveness
-Childhood Sexual abuse
-Shadow Work- facing the darkness inside
-Inner Child Work
-Meditation
-The non linear nature of healing
-Why she chooses to spaek out about her experiences and how that feels.
Find out more about Lauren Flax @laurenflax
Read her DJ Mag cover story here https://djmag.com/cover-features/lauren-flax-intention-everything
Last Night A Dj Saved My Life https://djmag.com/longreads/fight-against-opioid-crisis-us-clubbing
Lauren's bandcamp https://laurenflax.bandcamp.com/
Back 2 Life is created and hosted by Milly on air @Milly_onAir_
Follow the pod @back2Lifepod
Edited and mixed by George Powell
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Back 2 Life is a` podcast about healing and creativity within the world of electronic music. Our purpose is to to demystify, de-stigmitaise and shine a light on the healing process, whether you’re recovering from mental illness, addiction, burn out, greif, trauma... and whatever path you're on. It feels like as a community we’re thinking more about how we can better look after each other and ourselves, which is a wonderful thing.
My guest today is Nadia Anderson, one half of Kiara Scuro (alongside Roise Ama) a DJ and production duo currently taking the world by storm with their eclectic selections and impeccable taste. Outside of Kiara Scuro Nadia is a holistic coach working mainly with women in the creative industries to live more fully and healthily, both mentally and physically. Nadia speaks about the experience of burn out that lead to her pursuing a different more balanced and conscious lifestyle and the challenges of integrating these two paths. She also has ADHD something we have in common snd also talk about in this episode particulary in relation to perfectionism, shame but also the creative gifts of neurodivergence.
In this episode we talk about:
And more!
Find out more about Nadia;s coaching here https://www.instagram.com/__ayusya__/
Follow Kiara Scuro here: @KiaraScuro
Back to life is hosted and created by @milly_on_air_
Production by George Powell
Follow us on ig @backtolifepod
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Back 2 Life is podcast that exploresthe link between healing and creativity, and this season is focused on shining a light on mental health and addiction recovery within the world of electronic music.
Today’s guest is an absolute legend, if you were clubbing or festivalling in the 00’s you will have danced, maybe cried and probably hugged a stranger to his the incredibly iconic, uber emosh dancefloor anthem Love Story. Which actually celebrates it’s 20 year anniversary this week! My guest today is Bushwacka aka Matthew Benjamin, probably best known as one half of Layo and Bushwacka and now a qualified psychotherapist, founder of Listen Up Therapy.
He’s also still an international DJ and prolific producer as he has been since the late 90s, but he's also a recovering addict. He’s been clean for over 7 years now and shares his experience of recovery from addiction and poor mental health very candidly and helps a lot of people in the process. I was so honored and excited to speak to him he’s got a really powerful and important message to share.
In this podcast we talk about:
-The early days of acid house
-Getting his frst gig
-Writing and releasing Love Story
-Being a functioning addict
-Early attempts at recovery
-Being caught in a relapse cycle
-Going to rehab
-Holistic healing
-His year off social media
-Training to be a psychotherapist
-Combinig therapy with a 12 step approach
Links:
Bushwacka IG @bushwacka / @listenuptherapy
Listen Up Therapy: http:// www.listenuptherapy.com
Host and creator @Milly_on_Air_
Back 2 Life @back2lifepod
Editor George Powell: @george_etc wwww/georgepowell.online/
Love Story (vs Finally) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXSqXaMChe/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.beatport.com/release/love-story-vs-finally/3044657
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Happy new year Lifers! Our new years resolution is to bring you even more real, raw, uplifting, inspiring, hopeful and relatable conversations about overcoming adversity, harnessing the healing potential of our innate creativity, addiction, mental health and recovery with people in the world of electronic music. Our fourth guest of the season and first of 2023 in DJ Winggold aka Charles, creator of Unbound Events, DJ, promoter, activist, advocate and if that wasn't enough, by day he's a lawyer! I started following Charles over the pandemic and we have struck up a very lovely instagram friendship in recent months. In this episode we talk about his passion for Afrofuturism, the ideals and values that his party series Unbound is founded on, being a person of colour in electronic music, social justice, his experience of depression and burn out, the perils of the DJ circuit, validation seeking, his powerful experience with a meditation practice and much more!
Follow DJ Winggold @unboundevents
Back 2 Life is hosted and created by @Milly_on_air_
Edited by George Powell.
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For the third epiosde I have the incredible Nightwave talking about her healing experiences with psychedlics, ancient amazonian medicines and Kambô, of which she is now a practitioner. In this podcast we talk about her unusual first job, getting into DJing, her own struggles with mental health including being diagnosed with OCD, what she learned about OCD and the routes she's taken to healing through scared rituals with psycillocybin, plant medecine, kambo and more. We talk about how she works with kambo, what it does, the ethics and sustainability of practicing with sacred methods and plants, spirituality/ spirtual bypassing and the similarities between DJing and shamanism!
Nightwave (or Maya) is a Glasgow based DJ, producer, vocalist, club promoter and label boss with a punchy signature sound of acid, Chicago house, Detroit techno and electro fused with heady rave nostalgia and hybrid forms of bass and club music. She's one of my personal faves and has released some really incredible music over the years including her most recent EP " Prince of Flowers" on Optimo. But Maya is also a holistic therapist and Kambô practitioner specialising in women's health, autoimmunity issues and mental health. She says "Most people know me as a touring DJ and music producer but I've also been on a healing path for the last 20 years years pursuing my love of knowledge and passion for all life's mysteries, spiritual development and plant medicines. "
She has been serving Kambô for 3 years and works with a wide range of clients but is particularly passionate about women's physical, mental and emotional wellbeing and addressing the root of the issue which often is trauma or suppressed emotion. She works closely with Indigenous communities in the Amazon and is passionate about the fair and ethical use of these prcatices and medicines.
Maya's Scared Forest Practice https://www.sacredforesthealing.co.uk/about
May's RA bio https://ra.co/dj/nightwave/biography
Instagram @nightwave808
@maya_sacredforest
Her bandcamp and latest release on Optimo https://nightwave.bandcamp.com/album/prince-of-flowers-ep
Back to Life is hosted and created by DJ and Broadcaster @Milly_on_Air
Production by George Powell
Music by Double O
Artwork and logo by Vivandiere
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Back 2 Life is a podcast hosted by Milly on Air about healing and creativity. Every two weeks we talk to people about how they’ve come back to life after the darkness and this season we're on a mission to open up the conversation about mental health and addiction within the world of electronic music.
My second guest for this season is the incredible Cera Khin. Cera is an amazing intuitive, fearless and highly sought after DJ who regularly plays to tens of thousands of people around the world. Raised in Tunisia via Berlin crrently living in Barcelona, she is the founder of the Lazy Tapes label and her sound is multi genre rave; from industrial hardcore techno, mind bending acid, fast hard trance and even gabber. Her sets release a transcendental energy, focussed on bringing people together to dance and release. Cera khin is also a self empowerment & mental health warrior and a trained Hypnotherapist. In lock down she founded the instagram account "Technomentalhealth" in which she has been breaking stigmas and spreading awareness about mental health in the electronic music industry in a very engaging and accessible way. She is a thoughouly lovely person with great energy and we instantly got on and had so much to discuss. I this episode we talk about morning routines, the challenges of touring, overcoming trauma and depression, pschedelic therapy, social media, diversity, creating safe spaces and much more!
Back 2 Life is created and hosted by @milly_on_air_
Support The podacst via Kofi https://ko-fi.com/back2life
Cera's links:
IG: @cerakhin / @technomentalhealth
Lazy Tapes https://lazytapes.bandcamp.com/
RA Bio https://ra.co/dj/cerakhin/biography
George Powell is the editor and sound engineer
Music by Double O
Artwork design by Vivandiere
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Back 2 Life is back for Season 2! In this season DJ and broadcaster Milly speaks with prominent voices in the world of underground electronic music who are recovering from addiction, mental illness and trauma as she sets out to understand how they came back from their difficulties and the role that music, art and creativity has played in their recovery and their lives now.
The first guest is the incredible Lousiahh, someone who is very open and eloquent about her experience of addiction and recovery, and who is also a highly respected, distinct and prolific artist, vocalist, producer and DJ who's music sits at the intersection of punk and techno. She’s also an amazing insightful and fearless host of the podcast Sober Sex which discusses the often taboo topic of sexuality in sobriety and "focuses on conversations about what self-integrity, spirituality and personal evolution look like for different people as we learn to be and accept ourselves sexually and intimately."
Louisahhh is in long term recovery and got clean when she was just 20 years old via a family led intervention. After a substanstial time in rehab, she graduated and continued to pursue her music career ( against all the advice of those around her). Louisahh is living proof that not only is recovery possible when you're young, but that life can be amazing without drugs, you can go wherver you want, and do whatever you want if you put recovery first, something she continues to do after many years. Lousiahh's story and general being is so inspiring, she ooozes gratitude and wisdom in this episode we speak about her experience (and practice) of freedom, discovering BDSM in recovery, just how much work she puts into staying well, her early experiences with drugs and rehab, her creative recovery, her thoughts on mental health in the wider industry and more!
Find out more about Louisahh here:
Louisahhs latest album The Practice of Freedom https://louisahhh.bandcamp.com/album/the-practice-of-freedom-deluxe
Sober Sex https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sober-sex/id1514856529 /
Sober Sex IG: @fuckyeahsobersex
Louisahhh's IG https://www.instagram.com/louisahhh/?hl=en
Louisahhhh's bandcamp: https://louisahhh.bandcamp.com/
Follow us online @back2lifepod
Back 2 Life is hosted by Milly on Air
@Milly_on_air_
Support the podcast https://ko-fi.com/back2life
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Back 2 Life is a podcast hosted by DJ and broadcaster Milly Chowles, sharing stories of healing and creativity.
Milly meets artists, musicians and other creators about what it is to come back from difficulties like mental illness, addiction and trauma and the role of creativity in their path to healing. These converstaions are vulnerable, sometimes very sensitive and often difficult conversations but also filled with humour, lightness and plenty of hope from inspirational people who’ve overcome so much and have gone on to live meaningful lives fired up by a sense of purpose and passion.
Epiosde 5's guest is DJ,Artist Recovery Club facilitator and founder Ruby Savage.
Ruby is an incredible DJ who's first set post lockdown recently was reopening Phonox alongside Jayda G. She's had a pretty exciting career in music from working behind the counter at Honest Jons to being the label manager at Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood record label. During lockdown she founded the Artists Recovery Club, a 12 week course, initially online where people come together and work through the book the Artists Way by Julia Cameron - but with Ruby’s own unique spin on it. The Artist's Way is a book and practical programe that shows you how to heal your creative blocks and free your self from self defeating beliefs that stop us from creating.
I’m so so excited to share this podcast with you, I’ve wanted to dive into this topic forever. In this episode Ruby shares her own personal journey from 'shadow DJ' to actual DJ, and we go deep on the nature of healing and creativity as well as the importance of play, overcoming your inner critic and adult adhd!
Find out more about Ruby and The Artist's Recovery Club:
Insta: @RubySound @ArtistsRecoveryClub
Website: https://www.rubysavage.com/
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Lauren Burnett is a recovering addict, the founder of fashion brand Luella Rockerfella and mother. Lauren found recovery after a near death experience that left her with life changing injurys. In early recovery as a new Mum she used the unconventional business skills she learned in her addiction to creat her brand- which caught the eye of a millionaire investor in New York…But this isn’t your usual rags to riches, addict gets clean, turns their life around and lives happily ever after story, oh no! We talk about the reality of what happens when you try and fix your insides with outside stuff, the futility of achievement addiction, the humbling experience of starting again and so much more.
In this podcast DJ and broadcaster Milly Chowles talks with artists, musicians and creators about recovery from mental health challenges, addiction and trauma and the role of creativity in their healing. We cover some pretty heavy stuff but there is also plenty of humour, lightness and hope from inspirational people who’ve overcome so much and gone on to live meaningful lives fired up by a sense of purpose and passion.
Trigger warning: Drug use and suicide.
You can follow @lulu_rocker and her label @LuellaRockerfella on instagram, please also check out her range of hats that are made my women in prison of which all the profits from them go to a drug and alcohol rehab.
You can follow the podcast on instagram @back2lifepod
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Gemma Jennison is a registered mental health nurse and full time lecturer in Birmingham, also studying for a PhD in black males, mental health and hip hop. She’s been promoting hip hop nights since she was 16 and is a proud Mum. After witnessing two of her close friends make suicide attempts within two weeks of each other she founded a charity called The Man Down Project that helps men working in the music industry to have honest and meaningful conversations about their mental well-being and experiences of distress or trauma.
Gemma is seriously impressive, sharp, funny and refreshingly straight talking with tons of insight both personal and professional to share. In this episode we talk about how growing up with a mother who had severe mental illness impacted her and inspired her career in mental health. We also talk about personality disorders, mental health services, armchair activism, being a sample geek, toxic masculinity and how to help your friends who are depressed and suicidal.
Of course we also talk about Man Down and the challenges of keeping a small charity going through the pandemic.
Trigger Warning: We talk about suicide in this episode.
Here is the link to Gemma's blog post mentioned: https://www.mandownprogramme.com/post/suicide-support-guidance
Mandown Website: https://www.mandownprogramme.com/
Mandown Instagram: @mandownprogramme_
Other Charities that can help if you need support:
Samaritans: https://www.samaritans.org/
CALM https://www.thecalmzone.net/
Talk Club https://www.facebook.com/WeTalkClubUK/
Andy’s Man Club https://andysmanclub.co.uk/
If you enjoy this episode please subscribe, rate and review and come and join the conversation over on instagram @back2lifepod
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Lizzie Allan is a comedian, transpersonal counsellor, comedy therapist and recent TEDx talker This is a frank and funny conversation covering mental health, psychosis, phsychiatric hospital, addiction, shame, training as a comedian and finding long term sobriety. Lizzie has done a huge amount of work on herself to heal from her own self stigma and shame and now uses her story and skills to help others to not only heal from their traumatic experiences but also turn them into comedy gold. I couldn't think of a better way to mark Mental Health Awareness Week than by hearing Lizzie's incredible story and her inspirational take on the world!
You can listen to her TEDx talk called "Transform your Shame into Comedy" here ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8ZDqh5J3BU&ab_channel=TEDxTalks
Lizzie's organistaion 'Hilarapy' offering online course and therapy programmes: https://hilarapy.com/
Hilarapy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=hilarapy
To keep updated with all the latest epiosdes and guests you can follow @back2lifepod on instagram.
Credits:
The host and producer is Milly Chowles.
Artwork by Georgie Thompson
Music composed by Double O
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DJ and producer Eris Drew runs the T4T LUV NRG recording label with, her partner in music and life,Octo Octa. She regularly headlines clubs and festivals from P Bar to Glastonbury, she's had a Residency on BBC Radio 1, frequently tops the 'end of year' DJ Charts and graces the pages of all the big dance music publications Mixmag, DJ Mag, Resident Advisor and many others.
In recent years Eris has had a meteoric rise to success and international acclaim, an experience that has coincided with her starting to live in her truth. In this episode we talk about finding musical success later in life after years of struggle and Eris’s experience of coming out as a trans woman in her late 30s. We also discuss the power of music, community and dance as potentially unifying, healing and transformative cultural experiences. .
Eris Resident Advisor Profile https://ra.co/dj/erisdrew/biography
T4T LUV NRG http://www.t4tluvnrg.com/
Eris Insta / Twitter @erisdrew
Bandcamp https://erisdrew.bandcamp.com/
Eris Motherbeat Interview: https://www.glamcult.com/uncategorized/rave-revolution-eris-drew-shares-the-motherbeat/
Back 2 Life Insta: @Back2Life
Milly Chowles Insta /Twitter : @ Milly_on_Air_
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