Talk to Me, Baby

A friendship that’s been weighing on Saadya unexpectedly finds its way into the conversation. What begins as one story about finally speaking up turns into a much bigger conversation. Why do some relationships become stronger after an honest conversation, while others quietly fall apart? Why can someone genuinely care about you and still leave you feeling unseen? And why do so many of us ignore wh...

Five years ago, Saadya had a 6.5 gram mushroom journey that changed the course of our lives. The ripple effects are still unfolding today. Over the years, we’ve shared many aspects of our healing journey—therapy, communication, attachment, intimacy, spirituality, masculinity, femininity, polarity, self-awareness, and the inner work that transformed our relationship. We’ve also spoken openly about...

Mushky didn’t want Saadya to go to Israel. She had real fears. Real resistance. Real reasons. He listened deeply. …and still went. This episode opens into a raw conversation on masculine and feminine polarity in marriage: what happens when a woman doesn’t give her blessing, a man still chooses himself, and something unexpected begins to shift. We also touch on: • what can happen when feminine resi...

What happens in a marriage when you want to be comforted—but what you actually receive is something truer? This episode moves through the difference between being soothed and being seen. We get into what it feels like to open up and not get the response you were hoping for—and how that lands. There’s something here about being witnessed. What it means to be seen clearly, without being handled. Why...

A conversation about marriage, projection, pressure, perfectionism, nervous systems, and reacting to stories in our heads as if they’re reality. the version of your partner that lives in your mind inner criticism and fixer parts reacting before anything is actually said learning to come back to what’s true in front of you

What happens when we’re not in the same place at the same time? When one of us wants closeness and the other needs space? Can we hold both without pulling away or rushing to repair?

In this episode we find ourselves moving through phones, distraction, anticipation, phobias, psychedelics, yoga, Shabbos, nervous systems, and the quiet moments of life we’re usually so quick to escape. What are we actually avoiding when we fill every empty space? What gets lost when we remove the in-between? Mushky shares the story of her long-standing fear of dogs and how that fear gradually sof...

In this episode of Talk to Me, Baby we sit with what came up for us after an extended family vacation. Nothing dramatic happened. But slowing down created space—and in that space, familiar patterns showed themselves. We talk about meaning and purpose, about what it’s like to feel disconnected from yourself when routine falls away. We talk about money and scarcity, and how easily reflection can tur...

In this episode, we sit down for an unscripted conversation about desire, fear, and what happens inside a marriage when one person asks for more—and the other isn’t sure they can give it. We talk honestly about how vulnerable it is to name a desire without knowing what will happen next, and how easily fear turns into self-blame, shame, or the urge to shut things down. We explore the tension betwee...

In this episode of Talk to Me, Baby , we talk about what it was actually like inside the early years of our marriage—late nights, emotional spirals, shutdown, exhaustion, and the endless effort to get each other to understand what was really happening between us. This conversation moves through shame, protection, escalation, and withdrawal. We talk about what it felt like on both sides: the desper...

In our debut episode of Talk to Me, Baby , we sit down on the couch in the Healing Cabin and talk—honestly and unscripted—about resistance. What begins as a conversation about the friction of recording a podcast opens into something deeper: how we tell the difference between resistance that’s a signal to stop and resistance that’s an invitation to grow. Together, we explore the tension between for...