Back 2 Life
16 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDJ 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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ones: Processing pain through music
February 28, 2023 23:59 - 34 minutes - 39.7 MBBack 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 ...
Lauren Flax -Inner Child Work, Harm Reduction and Ayuhuasca
February 14, 2023 23:59 - 52 minutes - 60.5 MBToday'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. La...
Kiara Scuro ( Nadia)- Adhd, Perfectionism and Finding Purpose
January 31, 2023 23:59 - 43 minutes - 49.5 MBBack 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 (al...
Bushwacka: Psychotherapy, addiction recovery and acid house
January 17, 2023 23:59 - 37 minutes - 43.5 MBBack 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 t...
DJ Winggold : Afrofuturism, Mindfulness and Burnout
January 03, 2023 23:59 - 47 minutes - 712 MBHappy 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 lawy...
Nightwave-Frog Magic, Shamans and OCD
December 20, 2022 23:59 - 44 minutes - 102 MBFor 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 w...
Cera Khin: Techno Mental Health, Hypnotherapy and Healing
December 06, 2022 23:59 - 42 minutes - 48.4 MBBack 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 wor...
Sex, Sobriety and Freedom-Louisahhh
November 23, 2022 09:35 - 43 minutes - 49.7 MBBack 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 an...
Louisahhh=Sex, Sobriety and Freedom
November 23, 2022 09:35 - 43 minutes - 49.7 MBBack 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 an...
Back 2 Life Season 2 Trailer: Electronic Music
November 17, 2022 12:14 - 1 minute - 1.72 MBBack 2 life is back! Season 2 launches on Wednesday 23rd of November, here's a little taster... this time we're speaking to people from the world of electronic music about recovery, mental health, addiction, healing and creativity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Living The Artist's Way
August 27, 2021 13:49 - 49 minutes - 56.2 MBBack 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 ...
Entrepeneurship, extremes and self-esteem
July 09, 2021 14:04 - 46 minutes - 106 MBLauren 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...
Male mental health, hip hop and hashtags
May 28, 2021 13:00 - 45 minutes - 103 MBGemma 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...
Psychosis, sobriety and comedy
May 14, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 103 MBLizzie 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 co...
Rave, gender and the healer's journey
April 30, 2021 18:48 - 50 minutes - 116 MBDJ 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...
Introducing Back 2 Life
April 27, 2021 11:55 - 3 minutes - 8.34 MBHello I’m Milly Chowles and I hear to tell you about a brand new podcast launching on Friday 30th April called Back To Life. On it I’ll be talking to artists, musicians and creators to find out how they’ve come back from some really difficult times and the role of music, art and creativity in their recovery and their lives now. This feels like the perfect time to be launching this series as the world tentatively comes back to life after a year of collective trauma due to the pandemic. O...