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“We don’t go to therapy to heal and then exist in a vacuum. We do all this healing work because self care is the bridge to community care.” –Minaa B.
Intro
Today’s guest, therapist, and author, Minaa B., is an amazing original thinker. I first came across her work on Instagram, and I was blown away by how precise she is with her words and finding the intersection of our humanness.
I love her content and wanted to have her on the show to talk about her new book, Owning Our Struggles: A Path to Healing and Finding Community in a Broken World. We also chat about boundaries and Minaa describes how she deals with pushback against having her phone on “do not disturb.”
I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I enjoyed having it.
Highlights:
- 3:10 How Minaa became a therapist
- 5:20 How having therapy while taking graduate classes informed Minaa’s approach
- 7:50 Why Minaa’s book, Owning Our Struggles, is about community care
- 13:10 How we can become more mindful of community care
- 16:40 Understanding your internalized biases
- 18:50 Practicing anti-racism, and how racism is a system (and a wound)
- 25:10 Being “called in” when you make a mistake
- 27:00 The importance of boundaries in having healthy relationships
- 31:40 How Minaa deals with boundary pushback
- 34:40 Minaa’s biggest boundary struggle and how she overcame it
Connect with Minaa B.:
Minaa B. is a writer, speaker, therapist, and author of Owning Our Struggles: A Path to Healing and Finding Community in a Broken World. She is also the founder of Minaa B. Consulting, a mental health consulting practice that works with organizations to help them build psychological safety and become mental health inclusive.
Website: https://minaab.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/minaa_b
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