Branon Dempsey / Your Story Matters
@branondempsey.bsky.social
Helping Men Heal Their Wounds, Own Their Story, and Lead Their Life.
There’s No Place Like Dysfunctions For The Holidays 🎅
#Dysfunctional #Thanksgiving #FamilyDrama #Narcissist #Toxic #DownrightUnhealthy
#Dysfunctional #Thanksgiving #FamilyDrama #Narcissist #Toxic #DownrightUnhealthy
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
There’s No Place Like Dysfunctions For The Holidays 🎅
#Dysfunctional #Thanksgiving #FamilyDrama #Narcissist #Toxic #DownrightUnhealthy
#Dysfunctional #Thanksgiving #FamilyDrama #Narcissist #Toxic #DownrightUnhealthy
If you grew up in a home where every move was tracked, judged, or questioned, you learned to survive by performing. You learned to anticipate reactions. You learned to shrink or overachieve so you would not be criticized.
Being watched did not make you better. It only made you hypervigilant.
Being watched did not make you better. It only made you hypervigilant.
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
If you grew up in a home where every move was tracked, judged, or questioned, you learned to survive by performing. You learned to anticipate reactions. You learned to shrink or overachieve so you would not be criticized.
Being watched did not make you better. It only made you hypervigilant.
Being watched did not make you better. It only made you hypervigilant.
Why Men Struggle To Trust Themselves 🙋 even when they desperately want connection. If you grew up surviving more than being supported, trust was never taught. It was earned through pain, not safety.
#YourStoryMatters #MensHealing #TrustIssues #RelationshipHealth #MensMentalHealth #EmotionalRecovery
#YourStoryMatters #MensHealing #TrustIssues #RelationshipHealth #MensMentalHealth #EmotionalRecovery
November 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Why Men Struggle To Trust Themselves 🙋 even when they desperately want connection. If you grew up surviving more than being supported, trust was never taught. It was earned through pain, not safety.
#YourStoryMatters #MensHealing #TrustIssues #RelationshipHealth #MensMentalHealth #EmotionalRecovery
#YourStoryMatters #MensHealing #TrustIssues #RelationshipHealth #MensMentalHealth #EmotionalRecovery
Children are not scapegoats. Children are not emotional dumpsters. Children are not stand-ins for someone else’s unhealed pain.
Branon Dempsey
#narcissisticabuseawareness #narcissisticabuse #traumarecovery #yourstorymatters #selfworth #narcabuse #mentalfitness #emotionalstrength
Branon Dempsey
#narcissisticabuseawareness #narcissisticabuse #traumarecovery #yourstorymatters #selfworth #narcabuse #mentalfitness #emotionalstrength
November 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Children are not scapegoats. Children are not emotional dumpsters. Children are not stand-ins for someone else’s unhealed pain.
Branon Dempsey
#narcissisticabuseawareness #narcissisticabuse #traumarecovery #yourstorymatters #selfworth #narcabuse #mentalfitness #emotionalstrength
Branon Dempsey
#narcissisticabuseawareness #narcissisticabuse #traumarecovery #yourstorymatters #selfworth #narcabuse #mentalfitness #emotionalstrength
Narcissists don’t have to look in the mirror, they just point the finger. Don’t take the bait. Their reflection isn’t your responsibility.
👉Read Full Post On Substack
#Boundaries #HealingFromAbuse #NarcissisticParents
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👉Read Full Post On Substack
#Boundaries #HealingFromAbuse #NarcissisticParents
open.substack.com/pub/branon/p...
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Narcissists don’t have to look in the mirror, they just point the finger. Don’t take the bait. Their reflection isn’t your responsibility.
👉Read Full Post On Substack
#Boundaries #HealingFromAbuse #NarcissisticParents
open.substack.com/pub/branon/p...
👉Read Full Post On Substack
#Boundaries #HealingFromAbuse #NarcissisticParents
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Ever had someone twist your words until you start doubting your own memory? That’s not miscommunication - that’s control.
Find out the eight common gaslighting phrases they use.
👉See Comments for Article Link
Find out the eight common gaslighting phrases they use.
👉See Comments for Article Link
October 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Ever had someone twist your words until you start doubting your own memory? That’s not miscommunication - that’s control.
Find out the eight common gaslighting phrases they use.
👉See Comments for Article Link
Find out the eight common gaslighting phrases they use.
👉See Comments for Article Link
🚨Podcast Drop: Fake Strong Men
Fake masculinity is not strength. That’s trauma acting. And until men take it off, the damage keeps multiplying. The question is: can men finally face the story that made them put on the mask in the first place?
👉Link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Fake masculinity is not strength. That’s trauma acting. And until men take it off, the damage keeps multiplying. The question is: can men finally face the story that made them put on the mask in the first place?
👉Link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
October 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🚨Podcast Drop: Fake Strong Men
Fake masculinity is not strength. That’s trauma acting. And until men take it off, the damage keeps multiplying. The question is: can men finally face the story that made them put on the mask in the first place?
👉Link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Fake masculinity is not strength. That’s trauma acting. And until men take it off, the damage keeps multiplying. The question is: can men finally face the story that made them put on the mask in the first place?
👉Link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
They call it mentoring, but when older men gaslight younger men, they create false versions of masculinity.
September 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
They call it mentoring, but when older men gaslight younger men, they create false versions of masculinity.
Healing means refusing to play in their script anymore. It means naming manipulation for what it is and choosing your peace over their lies, excuses, shamming and chaos.
#NarcissisticAbuse #Gaslighting #EmotionalHealing #AccountabilityMatters #ChoosePeaceNotChaos #YourStoryMatters
#NarcissisticAbuse #Gaslighting #EmotionalHealing #AccountabilityMatters #ChoosePeaceNotChaos #YourStoryMatters
September 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Healing means refusing to play in their script anymore. It means naming manipulation for what it is and choosing your peace over their lies, excuses, shamming and chaos.
#NarcissisticAbuse #Gaslighting #EmotionalHealing #AccountabilityMatters #ChoosePeaceNotChaos #YourStoryMatters
#NarcissisticAbuse #Gaslighting #EmotionalHealing #AccountabilityMatters #ChoosePeaceNotChaos #YourStoryMatters
Healing starts the moment you don’t allow unsafe people to dictate your story and the time it takes for you to heal.
#Childhoodtrauma #traumarecovery #emotionalfeed #YourStoryMatters #BranonDempseyWrites
#Childhoodtrauma #traumarecovery #emotionalfeed #YourStoryMatters #BranonDempseyWrites
August 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Healing starts the moment you don’t allow unsafe people to dictate your story and the time it takes for you to heal.
#Childhoodtrauma #traumarecovery #emotionalfeed #YourStoryMatters #BranonDempseyWrites
#Childhoodtrauma #traumarecovery #emotionalfeed #YourStoryMatters #BranonDempseyWrites
🤯 EPISODE DROPS TOMORROW:
Our guest BJ Communicates joins us to talk about the cost of “forgetting the truth” when it comes to childhood abuse—and how many of us were taught to bury what really happened.
#BJCommunicates #TheYourStoryMattersPodcast #InnerChildHealing #SelfHealing
Our guest BJ Communicates joins us to talk about the cost of “forgetting the truth” when it comes to childhood abuse—and how many of us were taught to bury what really happened.
#BJCommunicates #TheYourStoryMattersPodcast #InnerChildHealing #SelfHealing
August 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🤯 EPISODE DROPS TOMORROW:
Our guest BJ Communicates joins us to talk about the cost of “forgetting the truth” when it comes to childhood abuse—and how many of us were taught to bury what really happened.
#BJCommunicates #TheYourStoryMattersPodcast #InnerChildHealing #SelfHealing
Our guest BJ Communicates joins us to talk about the cost of “forgetting the truth” when it comes to childhood abuse—and how many of us were taught to bury what really happened.
#BJCommunicates #TheYourStoryMattersPodcast #InnerChildHealing #SelfHealing
Healing isn’t about erasing the past. It’s about reclaiming the present so you can build a future. Because you are not meant to live frozen in survival. You are meant to live forward—steady, grounded, unshaken.
Your story matters.
@BranonDempsey
#YourStoryMatters #TraumaHealing #HealingJourney
Your story matters.
@BranonDempsey
#YourStoryMatters #TraumaHealing #HealingJourney
August 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Healing isn’t about erasing the past. It’s about reclaiming the present so you can build a future. Because you are not meant to live frozen in survival. You are meant to live forward—steady, grounded, unshaken.
Your story matters.
@BranonDempsey
#YourStoryMatters #TraumaHealing #HealingJourney
Your story matters.
@BranonDempsey
#YourStoryMatters #TraumaHealing #HealingJourney
This!!
July 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This!!
What happens when the people who raised you rewrite the story you lived through?
They’ll say you’re making it up. That you’re too sensitive. That you’re twisting the past, dramatizing something that wasn’t a big deal. So yeah...
🔸Read Full Article / open.substack.com/pub/branon/p...
They’ll say you’re making it up. That you’re too sensitive. That you’re twisting the past, dramatizing something that wasn’t a big deal. So yeah...
🔸Read Full Article / open.substack.com/pub/branon/p...
July 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
What happens when the people who raised you rewrite the story you lived through?
They’ll say you’re making it up. That you’re too sensitive. That you’re twisting the past, dramatizing something that wasn’t a big deal. So yeah...
🔸Read Full Article / open.substack.com/pub/branon/p...
They’ll say you’re making it up. That you’re too sensitive. That you’re twisting the past, dramatizing something that wasn’t a big deal. So yeah...
🔸Read Full Article / open.substack.com/pub/branon/p...
Their mask slipping wasn’t a fluke—it was the truth finally showing up. Don’t gaslight yourself just because they put on a smile later. Believe what you saw.
You didn’t overreact. You finally woke up.
#YourStoryMatters #ChildhoodTraumaRecovery #NarcissisticAbuseSurvivor
You didn’t overreact. You finally woke up.
#YourStoryMatters #ChildhoodTraumaRecovery #NarcissisticAbuseSurvivor
June 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Their mask slipping wasn’t a fluke—it was the truth finally showing up. Don’t gaslight yourself just because they put on a smile later. Believe what you saw.
You didn’t overreact. You finally woke up.
#YourStoryMatters #ChildhoodTraumaRecovery #NarcissisticAbuseSurvivor
You didn’t overreact. You finally woke up.
#YourStoryMatters #ChildhoodTraumaRecovery #NarcissisticAbuseSurvivor
Healing sounds great in theory. Until it involves disappointing people who trained you to believe their discomfort is your personal failure. 🫠
But…..
You’re just new at protecting the version of you that finally matters.
#TherapyThoughts #CPTSDRecovery #ChildhoodTraumaHealing #yourstorymatters
But…..
You’re just new at protecting the version of you that finally matters.
#TherapyThoughts #CPTSDRecovery #ChildhoodTraumaHealing #yourstorymatters
June 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Healing sounds great in theory. Until it involves disappointing people who trained you to believe their discomfort is your personal failure. 🫠
But…..
You’re just new at protecting the version of you that finally matters.
#TherapyThoughts #CPTSDRecovery #ChildhoodTraumaHealing #yourstorymatters
But…..
You’re just new at protecting the version of you that finally matters.
#TherapyThoughts #CPTSDRecovery #ChildhoodTraumaHealing #yourstorymatters
This week on @TheYourStoryMattersPodcast
👌I'm addressing trigger trouble head-on. You know that feeling: a sudden surge of anxiety that instantly takes you back to a moment in the past. It's time to take control.
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
👌I'm addressing trigger trouble head-on. You know that feeling: a sudden surge of anxiety that instantly takes you back to a moment in the past. It's time to take control.
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
June 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This week on @TheYourStoryMattersPodcast
👌I'm addressing trigger trouble head-on. You know that feeling: a sudden surge of anxiety that instantly takes you back to a moment in the past. It's time to take control.
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
👌I'm addressing trigger trouble head-on. You know that feeling: a sudden surge of anxiety that instantly takes you back to a moment in the past. It's time to take control.
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Perfectly said
June 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Perfectly said
🚨Episode Drop / The Your Story Matters Podcast
Special Guest: Natasha Smith
LISTEN NOW: “Can You Just Sit with Me?"
Natasha shares how grief reshaped her life—and how choosing to sit in the pain, rather than run from it, opened the door to healing.
Special Guest: Natasha Smith
LISTEN NOW: “Can You Just Sit with Me?"
Natasha shares how grief reshaped her life—and how choosing to sit in the pain, rather than run from it, opened the door to healing.
June 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🚨Episode Drop / The Your Story Matters Podcast
Special Guest: Natasha Smith
LISTEN NOW: “Can You Just Sit with Me?"
Natasha shares how grief reshaped her life—and how choosing to sit in the pain, rather than run from it, opened the door to healing.
Special Guest: Natasha Smith
LISTEN NOW: “Can You Just Sit with Me?"
Natasha shares how grief reshaped her life—and how choosing to sit in the pain, rather than run from it, opened the door to healing.
Yessss‼️
June 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Yessss‼️