Owning Our Struggles

A Path to Healing and Finding Community in a Broken World

By: Minaa B.

Narrated by: Minaa B.

Discover the power of collective healing in this research-based and real-world guide to moving past trauma and adversity—together.

Adversity comes in many forms, and can make us feel alone in our pain, even years after the fact. But as wellness coach and licensed therapist Minaa B. observes, we can’t heal in isolation. The best way to move past individual trauma is through connection and community—healing ourselves and one another.
In this powerful and practical guide, Minaa shares therapeutic tools, client stories, and actionable insights to help you on your healing journey, along with reflections from her personal experiences. Each chapter focuses on a common emotional struggle—from overcoming dysfunctional family patterns to developing emotional maturity, finding our village, navigating racial trauma, and moving past isolation and despair.
Through her unique mix of deeply honest personal stories, proven practices, and prompts for writing and reflection, Minaa helps readers finally face their struggles, get unstuck, and transform their thinking—to claim agency in their own lives and circumstances, and to use that power to help heal a broken world.

Inspiring and motivating

I love Minaa's podcasts and voice - soothing and grounding which further amplifies the mindfulness experience. Thank you for this beautiful resource!

Healing journey

This book was absolutely eye-opening and amazing. I will purchase the hard copy for myself and a few others because everyone needs to read this book.

Loved every second!

I enjoyed reading this book because it felt like a therapy session. I will use this book as a reference guide to heal my triggers and fully commit to maintaining my mental health!

Deceiving Title-Misses the Mark

I was excited to read Owning Our Struggles, hoping for a book that would bring people of diverse backgrounds together in a shared understanding of healing and community. While Minaa B. addresses important issues, I found that the book sometimes comes across as exclusionary, especially towards readers who are not Black. Although the focus on Black experiences and resilience is crucial and valuable, the tone often feels as if it's dismissing or disregarding the struggles of other marginalized groups.

The book could have benefited from a more inclusive approach to discussing oppression, one that acknowledges that people from all backgrounds face various forms of marginalization. Instead, many of the discussions feel narrowly focused, leaving out the nuances of intersectionality and the challenges faced by others who are not Black. It feels as though some readers might feel alienated or sidelined by the lack of attention to the broader spectrum of experiences with racism and discrimination.

Overall, while Owning Our Struggles has strong points, I felt it would have been more impactful if it took a more inclusive and nuanced approach to the realities of oppression that affect people from many different walks of life.

Not for me…

This book was not for me. Thought I would get more out of this book.