We don’t always notice the way sound holds us — until we need it.Until the noise in our heads gets too loud.Until the silence becomes too much.Until we hear something that softens the edges and invites us back home to ourselves.

This week on Come Back To Earth, I’m joined by Ralph Tashjian, whose work sits at the intersection of mental health, vibrational healing, and the transformative power of music. Ralph’s approach to sound is less about what we hear — and more about what we feel.

Before we drop into Ralph’s story, I reflect on one of the songs that’s helped me reclaim my own stillness: “Weightless” by Marconi Union. It’s a reminder that music can be more than art — it can be medicine. And this episode? It’s one long exhale.

We talk about:

* How sound impacts the nervous system and emotional regulation

* The difference between noise and healing sound

* Creating rituals of calm in a chaotic world

* How we each have a “home frequency” that music can bring us back to

This one’s gentle and grounding — like laying down on the floor with your eyes closed and letting the hum of something deeper rise up and carry you.

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What if the stillness we crave isn’t peace, but shutdown?

In this episode, we explore the quiet spaces we mistake for healing and the music that finally speaks the truth we’ve been holding in. Inspired by the haunting swell of Disturbed’s cover of “The Sound of Silence,” this story opens with a moment of misrecognition: assuming silence meant safety, when in reality, it was where all the unsaid things were hiding.

I’m joined by Jamie Lammers, a genre-blurring artist who makes synth-forward music that doesn’t just sound good it feels honest. Their work is part electronic atmosphere, part emotional confession. It’s the kind of music that invites you to stop pretending and finally feel something.

We talk about:

* The difference between emotional stillness and emotional numbness

* How music helps us tell the truth when words won’t cooperate

* The quiet power of making space for hard feelings

* Learning to recognize what we’ve buried and gently bringing it back to the surface

If you’ve ever held your breath through hard things… if you’ve ever worn silence like armor… if you’ve ever needed a song to say what you couldn’t—this conversation is for you.

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Some songs don't just get stuck in your head—they set up camp in your chest.

In this episode, we're joined by South African pop artist Charlie Void, whose high-gloss sound and emotionally raw lyrics are redefining what queer pop can be. From the dancefloor to the depths of emotional survival, Charlie shares how music became both an escape and a mirror—how it held them through moments of heartbreak, identity struggle, and creative rebirth.

We talk about:

* The pressure to perform happiness (and what happens when you stop)

* How music like Sia’s “Chandelier” helped shape Charlie’s emotional honesty

* Turning personal chaos into connection—and catchy choruses

* The relationship between queerness, visibility, and vulnerability in pop

* The liberation of making music that’s as glittery as it is gutting

Whether you’ve danced through your own breakdown or found healing in a song you couldn't stop repeating, this one’s for you.

Charlie doesn’t just make bangers—they make you feel. Loudly. And unapologetically.

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