Ep. 156: How to Heal When Your Mind Is Working Against You with Rwenshaun

Express Yourself Black Man

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Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Mental Health

5.0 • 556 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 92 minutes

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In XYBM 156, we sit down with Rwenshaun Miller, a therapist who has lived on both sides of the therapy couch. He breaks down the real face of bipolar disorder — far beyond the mood-swing myths — through the lens of his own diagnosis at 19, three su-c-de attempts spanning seven years, and a battle with alcohol that nearly cost him everything, all while graduating from UNC on an academic scholarship and walking onto a Division I football and track team.

This is a must-watch for anyone who has ever looked “high-functioning” on the outside while quietly struggling on the inside.

For the athletes, the overachievers, the men battling in silence, and the people trying to support someone they love through mental health challenges… this conversation is going to hit different.

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0:00.0	Don't solve all your kids' problems.
0:02.0	Let them fail.
0:03.0	It's one thing to have guard rails up for them so that they don't get hurt or injured. Let them figure these things out. Learn how to co-parent. You can still make it happen. Because at the end of the day, he's first. You got to get out of your own ego in those situations. As a parent, do your own work on yourself. That's going to translate into how you actually raise and interact with your child.
0:25.4	All right, y'all. Welcome back to the podcast. This is a platform that we started with one purpose.
0:30.5	And that purpose is to build a better black community, starting with black men. Because we believe that when we as black man heal so does our community and today's
0:39.8	guest knows so much about that not only is he a professional in the field of mental health but he
0:47.9	is also someone that has had his own battles with mental health that we will talk about during
0:52.4	the episode that I think is going to be very very impactful for those of you that have black men in your lives that may be going
0:58.3	through their own mental health issues. Or if you're a black man yourself that has his own
1:03.6	mental health struggles and battles that hasn't opened up about them, this is a great guest
1:09.2	to talk to or just to listen to because not only have they
1:14.5	been on one side of the couch or however you want to think about therapy, they've been on both
1:20.2	sides, right? They've seen it as a client and they've seen it as now a therapist. They've also
1:26.3	gone through so many different speaking engagements,
1:30.3	so many different partnerships with different companies and organizations.
1:35.3	So without further ado, I want to introduce Rashon Miller.
1:38.3	Brother, how you doing?
1:39.3	Man, I'm cooling, bro.
1:41.3	Like, really cooling because it's cold outside.
1:45.7	It is really cold right now. It is really cold. Cold it and it normally gets in this air. We're actually about to have single-digit temperatures over the weekend. Right. Yeah. It's kind of wild. Yes, it is. It is. It is, man. But I mean, I'm blessed to be here, man, and excited just to sit down with you and chop it up with you, like I was saying.
2:04.6	Um, Yes, it is. It is. It is, man. But I mean, I'm blessed to be here, man, and excited just to sit down with you and chop it up with you. Like I was saying, I'm proud of you for what you built. And what you continue to build because I know the work that goes on in it. And the stuff that people don't see.
2:14.8	Bro, we were just talking about that, man. There's so much that people don't see, man.
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