This Feels Familiar with Minaa B.

By Minaa B.Health & Fitness Mental Health Education Self-Improvement

This Feels Familiar with Minaa B. episodes

February 17 62: The Emotionally Immature Sibling: How to Deal With Them
In this episode, Minaa B. explores what it means to have an emotionally immature sibling and why it feels different from dealing with an emotionally immature parent. She breaks down what emotional immaturity actually looks like—the defensiveness, the manipulation, the inability to take responsibility—and examines why some siblings develop emotional maturity while others stay stuck.
Using The Siblinghood Theory framework, Minaa reveals how poor conflict navigation, power dynamics, and lack of emotional attunement create exhausting one-sided relationships. If you're the sibling who's always managing everyone else's emotions, this episode validates your experience and offers practical strategies for protecting your peace.

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36 min
February 10 61: What You Need to Know About The Silent Treatment
In this episode, Minaa B. unpacks the silent treatment—not as someone needing space, but as a power move rooted in manipulation. she explores why people use silence as a weapon, how it shows up across sibling relationships, friendships, romantic partnerships, and workplace dynamics, and the psychological toll it takes on the person being shut out.
Minaa offers practical strategies for recognizing the pattern, setting boundaries around silence, and protecting yourself from relationships where communication is weaponized. If you've ever been frozen out by someone you care about, this episode will help you see it for what it really is.
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29 min
February 09 Introducing "This Feels Familiar"
Do you ever have that weird feeling that says, "I've been in this situation before?" The same conflict. The same feeling that no matter what you do, the pattern repeats. That familiar feeling isn't a coincidence–it's a pattern. And This Feels Familiar can help you change it.
Your patterns aren't personal failures—they're relational. They were shaped by early experiences with siblings, peers, and family. And on this show, therapist, author, and creator of The Siblinghood Theory, Minaa B., explores how belonging, conflict, and relational patterns shape your life—and how to change them.

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2 min
February 0360: Opt Out of Childhood Roles
In this episode, Minaa B. explores why so many people feel trapped in the roles they were assigned growing up—the responsible one, the peacekeeper, the funny one, the invisible one.
Drawing from The Siblinghood Theory's Role Rigidity dimension, she breaks down how sibling and peer dynamics create fixed identities that follow us into adulthood, showing up in friendships, romantic relationships, and workplace dynamics.
Minaa explains the psychological and systemic reasons roles become so hard to change, and offers practical strategies for recognizing when you're performing a role versus being yourself. If you've ever felt like you can't break free from who your family expected you to be, this episode will show you that your role doesn't define you—and you can opt out.
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42 min
January 27 59: The Paper Cuts We Ignore: Accumulated Harm in Friendship
In this episode, Minaa B. explores friendship trauma—often called little T traumas—and examines how microaggressions in friendships can cause people to drift apart.

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28 min
January 20 58: Why Does Friendship Feel So Disposable?
In this episode, Minaa B. explains why friendship in today’s society feels disposable and difficult to maintain compared to romantic relationships. She discusses social hierarchy and how friendship tends to land at the bottom of the hierarchy, and shares tips on what we can do to strengthen our friendships.

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32 min
January 13 57: Friendship Fantasies and the Reality of Connection
In this episode, Minaa B. shares her insights on how TV and media have distorted our perception of what healthy friendship and community look like. We’ve all been sold an inaccurate idea of what connection is supposed to be, and in this episode, Minaa B. breaks down those myths while providing useful tools on how to cultivate healthy, realistic friendships.

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23 min
January 06 Introducing Mindful With Minaa
Why do some of us struggle to feel like we belong—no matter how hard we try? Belonging isn't something you earn by being perfect. It's relational—shaped by early dynamics with siblings, peers, and family.
Using The Siblinghood Theory, therapist Minaa B. explores how belonging, conflict, and relational patterns shape your mental health and relationships. This podcast shifts the conversation from individual healing to relational awareness.
This is mental health for people ready to understand the why behind their patterns—and break the cycle.
2 min
January 06 56: Belonging, Conflict, And The Patterns That Shape Us
Belonging is a universal need, but conflict can hinder building community. This episode explores the new direction of Mindful With Minaa and reveals the obstacles that prevent belonging, while providing you with the tools to strengthen the relationships you want.

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15 min
October 21, 2025 55: Navigating Grief & Ambiguous Loss
In this episode, Minaa B. unpacks ambiguous loss and disenfranchised grief, while providing tools on how to navigate these complex emotions.

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About This Feels Familiar with Minaa B.

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Do you ever have that weird feeling that says, "I've been in this situation before?" The same conflict. The same feeling that no matter what you do, the pattern repeats. That familiar feeling isn't a coincidence–it's a pattern. And This Feels Familiar can help you change it.