Rebranding Mental Health
The Rebranding Mental Health Podcast explores what mental health could look like if we moved beyond the outdated disease model and embraced TOTAL health—brain, body, relationships, and purpose. Through real talk, cultural critique, and forward-thinking ideas, we unpack the systems that shape our well-being and imagine bold new ways to heal, connect, and grow. It’s not about fixing what’s broken—it’s about building what we’ve been missing.
Episodes
64 episodes
Know Where You’ve Been: Why Understanding Your Childhood Isn’t About Blame, It’s About Clarity
Many people avoid looking back at their childhood because they fear getting stuck in blame. Others feel trapped there, endlessly replaying the past. Both miss something essential.Your early experiences aren’t about fault, they’re about c...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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33:43
The Architecture of Belonging: Community as Total Health
In a culture that prizes independence, productivity, and self-sufficiency, we’ve quietly dismantled something essential: community.The neighbors who checked in. the third spaces where people gathered without performance. The invisible we...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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46:43
Tired & Busy: When Exhaustion Became the American Way of Life
How are you?Tired. Busy.Lately, I’ve noticed something I can’t unhear. Nearly every conversation starts the same way, ike exhaustion is the new personality trait, and busyness is proof that we matter.But what if this isn’t ...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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29:49
The 3S Program: Why Stability, Simplicity, and Synchronicity Became Essential Life Skills
We're back!!! We took a brief hiatus for a couple weeks for the holidays and flu. Not all fun, however we're happy to back. During COVID, we didn’t just lose routines.We lost rhythm. We lost predictability. We lost the invisible...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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49:55
The Masculinity Paradox: Letting Men Out Of Their Box
So, what does “masculinity” even mean?In this episode, Iman and Kurt are unpacking what many people are calling a masculinity crisis and naming what’s really happening underneath it: a masculinity paradox.Men are struggling in rea...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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9:18
When Strangers Become a Village - Why Community Is a Biological Need, Not a Personality Trait
What if community isn’t something you’re good at, but something your nervous system is designed for?In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman shares an unexpected lived experiment in human connection. Thirty-plus people, most of ...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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33:47
Feelings Are Signals, Not Verdicts: Why Everyone’s So Defensive (and What to Do About It)
We live in an era of emotional pop-ups: constant alerts, quick reactions, and inboxes full of unread feelings.In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt unpack why we take everything personally, how defensiveness...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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33:35
Checks and Balances: Wholeness Through Homeostasis
We’ve all been told to “just be moderate.” Eat in moderation. Work in moderation. Feel in moderation. Basically live life at a polite simmer.But here’s the thing: moderation is overrated. Aristotle’s “Golden Mean” sounded great in philos...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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40:26
The Hypocrisy Files: Why America Needs a Therapist (and Maybe a Nap)
If America were a therapy client, the intake form would be wild.Chronic contradiction. Inflated ego. Deep abandonment wounds. Trouble listening. Possibly projecting onto everyone.In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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30:09
Aging Out of the Anti-Age Illusion
We made “looking our age” the enemy, then sold the cure.In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt are talking about what it really means to age in a youth-obsessed culture. Because aging isn’t a flaw in...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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37:39
Arrival: Wholeness Through Nourishment
In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt move from integration to arrival, the moment when your nervous system stops scanning for danger and starts trusting safety again.Kurt shares his reflections on ...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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37:03
Shadow Work: Wholeness Through Integration
What if the parts of yourself you’ve been avoiding are actually the key to your peace?This week on Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt are crawling into the metaphorical basement of the psyche (don’t worry, bring snacks). We...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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37:27
Mean Girls, Real Pain: Why Girls Hurt Each Other and How We Can Change the Story
Why do girls, who know the sting of exclusion, still turn that pain on each other?In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt unpack the psychology and culture behind “mean girl” behavior. From silent treatments to s...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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27:21
Growing Into Ourselves: Emotional Maturity Beyond Gender Scripts
Welcome to a new season of Rebranding Mental Health! In this episode, Iman and Kurt unpack the cultural and psychological layers of maturity — how “boys don’t cry” and “good girls don’t get angry” still echo through adulthood, shapi...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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35:39
Rocks, Stones, and Pebbles: Building the Castle of Your Goals
Ever feel stuck between knowing what to do and actually doing it? In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt break down a simple but powerful framework for understanding the types of actions that move you...
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Season 2
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Episode 42
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39:18
Navigating Disorientation - Part 2: Lost in the Funhouse
When the chaos outside quiets down, what happens when the disorientation is coming from within? In this deeply personal follow-up to Part 1, Iman and Kurt explore the emotional fog that clouds our inner world, the kind that makes clari...
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Season 2
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Episode 41
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39:30
Navigating Disorientation – Part 1: Adventures in Wonderland
In this episode, Iman and Kurt explore why the outside world feels so confusing right now. Between polarization, misinformation, and the dizzying pendulum swings of public trends, it’s easy to feel like we’ve tumbled into Wonderland where...
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Season 2
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Episode 40
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26:25
Beyond Codependency: Embracing Interdependence in a Culture of Isolation
In Western culture, especially America, we’ve been sold myths like “you complete me” or “I couldn’t live without you.” But those aren’t declarations of love their indications of codependency.What if relationships could be neither c...
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Season 2
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Episode 39
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39:31
The Price of Survival: How the Cost of Living Is Rewriting Our Health
In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt name a quiet emergency: the way rising costs, rent, groceries, insurance, debt, are taxing our nervous systems before we even start the day.If your body has been bracing, neck te...
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Season 2
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Episode 38
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35:39
The Wellness Fog – Why Fragmented Healing Doesn’t Work
You’re eating the kale, meditating, moving your body, checking all the boxes… and yet, you still feel off. Welcome to the Wellness Fog.In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt explore why doing “all th...
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Season 2
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Episode 37
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38:29
Choosing Responsiveness over Discipline
We’ve all heard it: discipline is everything. Get up at 5AM, stick to the routine, grind harder, push through. But what if discipline isn’t the holy grail we’ve been sold? What if there’s a healthier, more sustainable alternative?In this...
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Season 2
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Episode 36
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32:57
Kindness vs. Niceness – Why People-Pleasing Isn’t the Same as Compassion
At first glance, kindness and niceness look the same but they’re not.In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, we unpack why niceness often comes at the cost of silence, resentment, and self-abandonment, while kindness is rooted...
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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35:07
Losing My Religion, Finding Myself – How Spiritual Conditioning Shapes Our Total Health
Spirituality should never cost you your voice. And sacredness should never require self-erasure.In this tender and deeply honest episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt explore how our religious upbringing can shape o...
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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37:09
Joyful Defiance – Reclaiming Your Power in Uncertain Times
Joy isn’t a luxury. It’s a strategy.In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt explore Joyful Defiance. Kurt coined this approach as the radical act of choosing play, pleasure, and presence even when the w...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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47:35
Navigating Uncertainty – Tools to Ground, Center, and Move Forward
Uncertainty isn't just uncomfortable, it’s biologically destabilizing. In this premiere episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt explore why the unknown feels so threatening, how your brain and nervous system respo...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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31:19