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The Rebranding Mental Health Podcast explores what mental health could look like if we moved beyond the outdated disease model and embraced TOTAL health—brain, body, relationships, and purpose.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.
Rebranding Mental Health
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 clingy nor disconnected, but interdependent? And what does that truly mean?
In this episode, Iman and Kurt explore:
- The Decline of Community: From bowling leagues to “bowling alone,” social trust and connection have eroded, leaving many isolated.
- Dependency, Independence & Codependency: Why we swing between extremes and how those patterns get set early.
- Why Codependency Persists: The cultural scripts and family legacies that confuse love with need.
- Interdependence as a Total Health Practice: How mutual support + autonomy create the emotional ecosystems we need to thrive.
- Real-Life Interdependence: From Blue Zones to intentional communities, examples of belonging without losing the self.
Plus, practical ways to start cultivating interdependence today, inside your relationships and beyond couple culture.
Because interdependence is where human flourishing happens between isolation and enmeshment. It’s the sacred dance of autonomy and belonging, and it’s essential to Total Health.
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"Rebranding Mental Health: A Movement, Not a Label."
