Dismissed True Stories
Dismissed True Stories is a survivor-led podcast that dares to break the silence around domestic violence, emotional abuse, and toxic relationships. Each episode shares the raw, unfiltered realities of what abuse really looks like. From overlooked red flags to moments of escape, and everything in between.
Created by a survivor-turned-advocate with a broadcasting background, DTS is where stories once silenced are now spoken. Loudly, honestly, and without apology. We’re not here to sensationalize abuse; we’re here to humanize survivors.
You’ll hear from survivors finding their voices, families forever changed by loss, and organizations working to support healing and recovery. Sometimes, it’s one survivor passing the mic to another with a piece of advice that could change or.. save a life.
But DTS isn’t just about telling stories of survival. Each episode's commentary helps you decode your own story, make sense of your experiences, and see the patterns you might have missed while in survival mode.
The tone? Like talking with a trusted friend. No fluff. Just truth.
Whether you're navigating narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, or coercive control or you're in the process of rebuilding your self-worth and healing your trauma this space is for you.
Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is finally tell your own story.
Survivor-led. Heart-led. Truth-led.
#DismissedTrueStories | A podcast for survivors and victims, by survivors.
Dismissed True Stories
A Mother On The Run-Season 3 Trailer
What choices would you make to survive when the system designed to protect you repeatedly fails? Season 3 of Dismissed: True Stories follows one mother's harrowing journey as she flees domestic violence with her children across multiple states for nearly six years.
The nightmare begins with a knife at her throat and a terrifying threat: "He told me he was going to cut my scalp off and said if I screamed, he was going to make sure my kids have nightmares for the rest of their lives." What follows is not just an escape, but a desperate fight for survival that continues long after leaving her abuser. Despite filing "a whole string of police reports from multiple cities, multiple states," safety remains elusive as her ex-partner refuses to give up the pursuit.
This season delves deep into the reality of domestic violence survival—the homelessness, hunger, sleeping on floors, and constant relocation that becomes normalized in the quest for safety. We explore how abuse ripples through generations, with our survivor noting that her mother was "truly my first abuser in life." When backed into a corner with few options left, survivors face impossible choices: "Have you ever considered sex work?" becomes a legitimate question when conventional paths to stability have been exhausted.
Dismissed: True Stories centers the voices that society too often ignores, challenging listeners to witness the full complexity of domestic violence survival. This podcast is created by survivors for survivors, acknowledging that leaving an abuser is often just the beginning of a much longer journey. Subscribe now and join us on October 3rd for a powerful season that refuses to look away from the stories our society too frequently dismisses.
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233 OR text begin to 88788
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Speaker 2:So he held me hostage at knife point. He told me that he was going to cut my scalp off and he said that if I screamed he was going to make sure my kids have nightmares for the rest of their lives. This season on Dismissed True Stories, we have been running from my ex for over five years. We're almost at six years at this point.
Speaker 1:One mother's fight to keep herself and her children safe.
Speaker 2:I have a whole string of police reports from multiple cities, multiple states. We've relocated again and again, and again and he just refuses to give up.
Speaker 1:Survivors of domestic violence often have stories that are dismissed, and this story isn't just about a broken system and a woman on the run.
Speaker 2:Being homeless, staying from place to place, not being able to shower daily, having to sleep on the floor pretty often just being hungry.
Speaker 1:It's a story that shows that survival is never easy, a story that shows that abuse doesn't just end when you walk away for good.
Speaker 2:You know there was so many times that he beat me where I had black eyes. I had broken blood vessels in my eyeballs.
Speaker 1:And what does life look like when you're on the run and you're failed by the people who are supposed to love you?
Speaker 2:I've realized that, you know, my mother was truly my first abuser in life.
Speaker 1:And what happens when you're backed into a corner?
Speaker 2:We feel like, as soon as he gets out, we are in danger and we need to relocate ASAP or we may not survive this next encounter with him.
Speaker 1:What choices would you make to survive?
Speaker 2:And she says well, have you ever considered sex work?
Speaker 1:Dismissed. True Stories stories, season three a podcast for survivors by survivors. Subscribe and tune in october 3rd.
