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.

#rebrandingmentalhealth #totalhealth #codependency

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"Rebranding Mental Health: A Movement, Not a Label."

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 health: eviction stress and rent burdens aren’t just economic, they’re biological.
• Trace the community shockwaves of displacement and disconnection and why belonging is infrastructure, not a luxury.
• Share innovative, actionable tools to stabilize body and budget.

This is not about blame. It’s about biology. And it’s about reclaiming dignity, community, and hope. Because you are not the balance of your bills. You are a nervous system built for connection. May you have what you need and people to help you keep it.

#RebrandingMentalHealth #TotalHealth #NervousSystem #HousingIsHealth

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"Rebranding Mental Health: A Movement, Not a Label."

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:
• Why performative wellness leaves you exhausted, anxious, or disconnected
• The science behind integration (gut-brain axis, relational health, burnout studies)
• Why social and emotional connection can matter more than supplements or routines
• The SCANN map (Sleep, Connection, Activity, Nutrition, Nature) as a Total Health tool
• Practical ways to bring your healing journey back into alignment

Because health isn’t a checklist. It’s a conversation.

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"Rebranding Mental Health: A Movement, Not a Label."