Episodios

  • S2E54 - Ralph Tashjian
    Jul 11 2025

    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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  • S2E53 - Jamie Lammers
    Jul 4 2025

    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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    33 m
  • S2E52 - Charlie Void
    Jun 27 2025

    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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    37 m
  • Deep Dive: Videotape - Radiohead
    Jun 25 2025

    In this bonus episode, we explore the haunting beauty of Radiohead’s Videotape—the closing track of their groundbreaking album In Rainbows. Together, we unravel the song’s meditation on mortality, memory, regret, and the delicate way we say goodbye when words fail us.

    Through a lyric-by-lyric deep dive and a reflective storytelling piece, we invite you to sit with the quiet moments that shape our legacies and the fragile truths we leave behind.

    What you’ll hear:

    * The emotional and spiritual layers behind Videotape’s lyrics

    * How minimalism in sound mirrors memory and loss

    * A short, original storytelling piece inspired by the song’s themes

    * Reflections on grief, healing, and the human need to be remembered

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    9 m
  • S2E51 - Cherish Danae
    Jun 13 2025

    You know that moment when a song hits so close to home it feels like it’s reading your journal?

    This episode is about that moment. The one where music doesn’t just entertain you, it names you.

    In this deeply honest conversation, I’m joined by Cherish Danae, whose work has helped so many of us feel less alone in our anxiety, grief, healing, and self-discovery. We talk about:

    * The first song that made us feel seen—and why it cracked something open

    * The emotional cost (and payoff) of making music that tells the truth

    * How certain sounds, lyrics, or moments can hold what therapy sometimes can’t

    * Why music isn’t always about fixing anything—it’s about witnessing

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    43 m
  • S2E50 - Nick Potvin
    May 30 2025

     Nick Potvin has spent years exploring the intersection of sound and the nervous system. His work taps into how music can regulate, express, and even co-regulate when our minds are spiraling.

    In this conversation, we dive into the science, the soul, and the stories behind music and mental health, what it means to create through dysregulation, how memory lives in melody, and why some songs just hit when nothing else does.

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    29 m
  • Deep Dive: Curtains - Ed Sheeran
    May 23 2025

    You’ve stumbled upon one of our deep dive episodes where each month we take a closer look at a song that has had an impact on mental health either for the artist themselves, or as a listener.

    This month we’re sitting with Curtains—a track off Ed Sheeran’s Subtract album that doesn’t just speak to sadness, but to something even more honest: the slow, confusing, uneven process of healing.

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    9 m
  • S2E49 - Randy Ojeda
    May 16 2025

    Our guest this week, Randy Ojeda, gets it. As a music lawyer he’s made a career out of turning feeling into sound. Whether it's through lyrics, melody, or the vulnerability of live performance, Randy helps artists tap into something real, something that makes the rest of us feel a little less alone.

    Connect with Randy Ojeda HERE

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    45 m