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The Rebranding Mental Health Podcast explores what mental health could look like if we moved beyond the outdated disease model and embraced TOTAL health—brain, body, relationships, and purpose.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
58 episodes
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
Fractured Systems: Why So Many of Us Are Mentally & Physically Unwell
If you’re feeling exhausted, anxious, or like your body is constantly bracing for impact—it might not be you. It might be the system you’re living in.In this episode of Rebranding Mental, Iman and Kurt break the myth that mental and phys...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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39:29
The Practical Power of Checking In with Yourself
Hello friends—welcome back to Rebranding Mental Health.In our previous episodes, Iman and Kurt have been exploring happiness and quality of life from a needs-based perspective: the idea that when our human needs are fulfilled, l...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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28:51
Pills, Power, and Possibility: Rethinking Pharmaceuticals in Mental Health
In this provocative conversation on Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt peel back the layers of modern psychiatry’s love affair with medication. How did pills become the first—and sometimes only—response to human distress?
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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37:29
AI Therapist - Friend or Foe
In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt are diving into one of the biggest questions in modern mental health: Can AI really help us heal?From ChatGPT to therapy apps, AI-powered tools are everywhere, of...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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30:55
“Can We Talk? Why Communication Should Be a Core Subject”
We teach reading. We teach math. We even teach driver’s ed.But when it comes to communication—arguably one of the most essential life skills—we leave people to figure it out through trial, error, and emotional bruises.In this episode...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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26:57
Wellness Industry Green Flags (Good Vibes with Substance)
Tired of toxic positivity and one-size-fits-all wellness advice?In this refreshingly honest episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt flip the script—focusing not on what’s wrong with the wellness industry, but wh...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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23:31