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The Rebranding Mental Health Podcast explores what mental health could look like if we moved beyond the outdated disease model and embraced TOTAL health—brain, body, relationships, and purpose.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
72 episodes
We Mistook Emotional Intensity for Intimacy
Somewhere along the way, we learned that love should feel electric, consuming, even destabilizing.Movies, music, and cultural narratives have taught us that if a relationship doesn’t feel intense, it must not be meaningful. That chaos eq...
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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28:23
The Exhaustion of Being the Regulated One
You’re the calm, steady one. The one who can read the room, de-escalate tension, and hold everything together when things start to unravel. However, over time, that role can quietly become a burden.Because when you’re “the regulated one,...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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32:53
Why Everything Feels Harder Than It Should (And It’s Not Just You)
“I don’t understand why everything feels so hard.” It’s not collapse or crisis. It’s something quieter, a persistent heaviness that makes ordinary life feel more effortful than it used to.In this episode, Iman and Kurt offer a different ...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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38:23
Grace and Courtesy: Emotional Maturity as Public Health in a Time of Unrest
Tension is everywhere. Conversations escalate faster. Patience is thinner. People are quicker to assume hostility, and slower to repair.We often frame this as a political problem, a cultural problem, or a generational problem. But beneat...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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32:41
AI: Is It Making Us Dumber — or Helping Us Think Again?
Artificial intelligence has ignited a familiar fear: that outsourcing writing, memory, and problem-solving to machines will erode human intelligence. But this anxiety may be aimed at the wrong target.Long before AI entered daily life, ou...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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26:41
Good Enough Is Good Enough
Modern life quietly trains us to believe that we are never enough, and that nothing we have is ever enough either. Not enough success. Not enough productivity. Not enough happiness. Not enough optimization.From morning routines to diets ...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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33:13
Lenses: An Antidote to Ideology
In an era of algorithm-fed outrage, competing realities, and identity-driven narratives, it can feel nearly impossible to know what’s true, what’s biased, and what’s simply noise. In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt explo...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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30:29
Relearning Play: From Entertainment to Aliveness
Somewhere between “be productive” and “be respectable,” many adults quietly lost play and replaced it with entertainment.Streaming. Scrolling. Spending. Drinking.Not because we’re shallow, but because we were taught that play was chi...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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39:09
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