Why You Should Stop Over-Romanticizing with Minaa B, LCSW
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Minaa B, LCSW and author of Owning Our Struggles joins the show to share her expertise on healing and embracing our past experiences. We hear how everyone has something they can heal from and the accessible ways anyone can begin their healing journey. Minaa explains how we often contribute to our own suffering in dating by over romanticizing, and she breaks down how the stories we create in our minds are more rewarding than reality, which leads to more pain when something doesn’t work out.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:04.8 | Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back to another episode of Seeing Other People. |
| 0:10.0 | Together, we're navigating modern dating alongside experts and real-life daters who are sharing their stories. |
| 0:16.1 | Don't have a date for tonight? No problem. Come learn, laugh, and maybe even cry along with us as we navigate the dating |
| 0:22.3 | scene together. Oh my goodness, you guys. I have been looking forward to today's recording and |
| 0:26.7 | today's guest for months now. And I'm so excited that it's here and that you guys get to listen. |
| 0:31.7 | Today we have Mina V on the podcast. Mina, welcome to seeing other people. |
| 0:37.1 | Hi. |
| 0:37.7 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:39.4 | Thank you for being here. |
| 0:41.1 | So for those who don't know, you're about to not only get to know |
| 0:45.8 | Mina B and all of her expertise, but you're about to become obsessed with her. |
| 0:49.0 | You're about to buy her book. |
| 0:50.2 | Trust me, it's incredible and you need it. |
| 0:53.1 | So Mina B is a licensed social worker, |
| 0:55.9 | mental health educator, and the author of Owning Our Struggles, A Path to Healing and Finding |
| 1:00.4 | Community in a Broken World. And I cannot wait for this conversation. There's so much that I |
| 1:07.4 | want to talk to about and learn from you about. But before we get into all of that, |
| 1:11.9 | I would love to just hear how you ended up where you are today. What led you to writing this book |
| 1:16.9 | and learning everything that you learned? Really good question. And it kind of just dates back |
| 1:23.7 | to my childhood, growing up, dealing with depression and anxiety, but not knowing, of course, |
| 1:30.2 | as a kid, what was wrong with me? It wasn't until I became more so like a teenager that I started |
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