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Rebranding Mental Health
Iman L. Khan, LMHC, LPC / Co-Host - Kurt Lois
53 episodes
3 days ago
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’re talking about shadow work, what it is, what it’s not, and how to stop treating self-awareness like an exorcism. Carl Jung called the shadow the “unconscious part of ourselves that the ego refuses to see.” But here’s the twist: your shadow isn’t just the dark stuff...
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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’re talking about shadow work, what it is, what it’s not, and how to stop treating self-awareness like an exorcism. Carl Jung called the shadow the “unconscious part of ourselves that the ego refuses to see.” But here’s the twist: your shadow isn’t just the dark stuff...
Show more...
Mental Health
Education,
Self-Improvement,
Health & Fitness,
Alternative Health
Episodes (20/53)
Rebranding Mental Health
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’re talking about shadow work, what it is, what it’s not, and how to stop treating self-awareness like an exorcism. Carl Jung called the shadow the “unconscious part of ourselves that the ego refuses to see.” But here’s the twist: your shadow isn’t just the dark stuff...
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4 days ago
37 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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 side-eyes, we explore why relational aggression feels so personal, how it impacts self-worth, and what it takes to create real belonging. We’ll connect neuroscience, social research, and lived experience to expose the hidden curriculum teaching girls competition ov...
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1 week ago
27 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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, shaping how we connect, suppress, or express. We look at the research, the reality, and the reframe: Why self-compassion predicts resilience.How gender scripts delay or distort emotional development. What it means to rewrite your emotional story with cu...
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2 weeks ago
35 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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 your life forward and why we often get distracted by the ones that don’t. Kurt shares how he stumbled onto this concept while working on his own health, only to realize it applies to almost every area of life, from relationships and work to mental wellness. You’ll learn: *T...
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3 weeks ago
39 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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 clarity feel like emotional CPR. Together, they unpack why humans crave narrative, how naming our pain gives us power, and why building a “working story” of who we are can be one of the most stabilizing things we ever do. You’ll hear about: • Why uncertainty can feel...
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1 month ago
39 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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 logic bends and reality shifts by the hour. This episode validates that disorientation is not just personal, it’s cultural. We then begin building a stabilizing toolkit with strategies like seeking nuance, practicing reality checks, and grounding throu...
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1 month ago
26 minutes

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, In...
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1 month ago
39 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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 tension, headaches, lack of focus...that’s not personal failure. That’s your biology responding to economics. In this episode, we: Explore how scarcity rewires attention and decision-making and why your focus isn’t broken, it’s budgeted.Look at housing as healt...
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1 month ago
35 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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 the right things” doesn’t always add up to real well-being. Fragmented healing when mind, body, and relationships aren’t integrated leaves us spinning. That’s where Total Health comes in: reconnecting biology, emotions, lifestyle, and relationships into one whole. You’ll learn: ...
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2 months ago
38 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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 episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt challenge hustle culture’s obsession with discipline and introduce responsiveness, a practice of tuning in, adapting, and collaborating with yourself instead of overriding your needs. You’ll learn: • Wh...
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2 months ago
32 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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 in truth, empathy, and boundaries. You’ll learn: • Why niceness is a performance fueled by fear of rejection or conflict • How people-pleasing impacts your nervous system, stress, and relationships • The hidden emotional labor behind always being “the nice one” • ...
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2 months ago
35 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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 our nervous system, our sense of self, and the way we define worth, love, and suffering. Whether you were raised in a rigid tradition, a high-demand spiritual environment, or are simply beginning to question inherited beliefs, you are not alone. This conversation isn’t...
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2 months ago
37 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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 world feels chaotic. This is not about denial or bypassing pain. It’s about staying soft, grounded, and awake in a hard world and reclaiming your emotional sovereignty. You’ll learn: Why joy builds resilience in your brain and body (hello, Polyvagal Theory and endorphins!)How...
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2 months ago
47 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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 respond, and what you can do to stay grounded when life is anything but predictable. You’ll learn: Why your brain prefers a “bad known” over an unknownHow cultural myths around control increase anxietyPractical tools to regulate your nervous system, reduce overwhelm, and expa...
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3 months ago
31 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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 physical health struggles are purely personal. From housing instability and food insecurity to systemic racism and chronic stress, we explore how fractured institutions are making people sick. This isn’t about blaming individuals—it’s about understanding how trau...
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3 months ago
39 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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, life feels richer, calmer, and more meaningful. But talking theory is only the beginning. What does this look like in real life? Today, we’re getting practical. I’ll walk you through the four core ways you can check in with yourself—your emotions, sensations, thoughts,...
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3 months ago
28 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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? We’ll start by tracing the shift from talk therapy to chemical treatments, examining why antidepressant use has soared over 400% in just a few decades. You’ll hear the promises: quick relief, insurance coverage, the allure of scientific authority. And you’ll hear ...
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3 months ago
37 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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, offering instant advice and support. But are they a useful supplement—or a risky replacement? Join us as we unpack: When AI can be a lifeline for reflection, reframing, and in-the-moment supportWhy AI isn’t equipped to fully replace human connection and professional careThe su...
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4 months ago
30 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
“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 of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt explore how our society’s lack of formal communication education fuels conflict, burnout, disconnection, and underdeveloped leadership. This is definitely a hot topic for Iman! You’ll learn: How gender, fam...
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4 months ago
26 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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 what’s right. This episode is for anyone who’s ever felt overwhelmed by health influencers, underwhelmed by overpromises, or just unsure who to trust in the crowded space of mental and emotional wellness. We’re calling out the green flags—the signs that a content creato...
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4 months ago
23 minutes

Rebranding Mental Health
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’re talking about shadow work, what it is, what it’s not, and how to stop treating self-awareness like an exorcism. Carl Jung called the shadow the “unconscious part of ourselves that the ego refuses to see.” But here’s the twist: your shadow isn’t just the dark stuff...