Why I Wrote Mental Health Rewritten

There’s a silence that lives in all of us.
A silence heavy with things we weren’t allowed to say, questions we were too scared to ask, and battles we fought behind closed doors — hoping no one would see.
For a long time, I believed that was just how it had to be.
Until I realized that silence wasn’t protecting anyone. It was keeping us sick.

I created Mental Health Rewritten because too many stories about mental health never get told the right way — or get told at all.
I watched as conversations around mental wellness flooded social media and podcasts — some brilliant, some harmful, many hollow.
People tossed around diagnoses like hashtags, reducing human beings to bullet points.
And underneath it all, the most important stories — the quiet suffering, the complicated healing, the messy realities — were still being ignored.

I knew we needed something different.
We didn’t need another mental health conversation full of buzzwords.
We needed honesty. Depth. Humanity.
We needed a place where mental health wasn’t just a topic — it was a tapestry of lived experiences, struggles, triumphs, and truths.

Why Storytelling Matters

Stories are how we make sense of the world.
They’re how we build empathy — how we look at someone completely different from us and still say, “I see you. I hear you. I believe you.”
That’s why Mental Health Rewritten isn’t a textbook or a lecture.
It’s a narrative — real voices, real journeys, real stakes.

Each season, we take you through three interconnected tracks across twelve episodes.
And we start at the intersection of one of the most taboo subjects: Sex and Mental Health — because if we’re going to have real conversations, we have to be willing to get uncomfortable.

Along the way, we weave in clinical insights from world-class diagnostic tools like the DSM-5 and ICD-11, and expert voices like Dr. Alexandra Katehakis, Havi Kang, and Dr. Justin Dodson.
But we never lose sight of the most important thing: the humanity behind the definitions.

A Movement, Not Just a Podcast

Mental Health Rewritten is bigger than me.
It’s a love letter to everyone who has struggled in silence, carried stigma on their back, or been reduced to a label instead of heard as a human being.

It’s for the person who was told their pain wasn’t real.
It’s for the survivor who thinks no one would understand.
It’s for the family carrying generational trauma without the words to explain it.
It’s for anyone who knows what it feels like to rewrite their life one painful, courageous chapter at a time.

I believe that when we tell our stories — fully, honestly, without shame — we not only heal ourselves.
We make it safer for others to heal, too.

Join Us

Season 1 of Mental Health Rewritten launches May 14, 2025.
We’ll explore sex, suicide, and race — three topics that have shaped the mental health conversation in ways we rarely name out loud.
This isn’t easy work. It’s necessary work.
And it starts with listening.

Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.
Let’s break the silence.
Let’s rewrite the narrative.
Let’s rebuild how we see — and support — each other.

🖤
Take care of yourself.
You matter.