By Brandon L. King, LPC
About the Book
Doing the Work Within is a powerful and practical guide written specifically for minority men who are tired of carrying their struggles in silence. This book breaks down the emotional, cultural, and generational pressures men of color face and provides a path toward healing that feels real, relatable, and doable.
Built from Brandon’s years of therapeutic experience, the book teaches men how to understand their own minds, break destructive cycles, build healthier relationships, and redefine what strength actually looks like. This isn’t a lecture. It’s a conversation between brothers, offering clarity, accountability, and space to breathe.
What This Book Helps You Do
• Understand how generational, cultural, and emotional pressures shape your mental health
• Recognize when you’re silently struggling and what steps to take next
• Rebuild your definition of masculinity, strength, and vulnerability
• Learn daily tools for stress, anger, shutdown, and overwhelm
• Heal from the inside out through journaling, benchmarks, and real-life practices
• Build a lifestyle of balance, connection, and emotional clarity
What’s Inside the Book
Doing the Work Within is structured as a step-by-step journey, with ten powerful sections guiding you from self-awareness to emotional mastery.
Highlights include:
• Breaking the Silence: Why men of color learn to hide their emotions and how to stop
• The Weight We Carry: Trauma, expectations, microaggressions, and inherited survival patterns
• Redefining Masculinity: Creating a new blueprint that actually fits your life
• Mental Health 101: How your mind works, early warning signs, and balancing your emotional ecosystem
• Barriers to Help: Pride, control, stigma, spiritual misdirection, family conditioning, and financial obstacles
• Healing Starts Here: Daily realistic practices for peace
• Therapy Demystified: What therapy really is, and how to find the right fit
• Brotherhood & Community: Building circles that hold you accountable
• Stories of Strength: Real men, real healing, real growth
Every chapter includes journaling prompts, practical tools, breathing techniques, benchmarks, and real-life reflections to help you not just read the book… but live it.
Who This Book Is For
• Minority men carrying emotional weight they rarely talk about
• Men who feel pressure to perform, provide, and stay strong at all times
• Men struggling with depression, anxiety, burnout, anger, numbness, or disconnection
• Fathers wanting to break generational patterns
• Husbands and partners wanting healthier communication
• Young men trying to understand manhood without losing themselves
• Women who want to understand and support the men they care about
Why This Book Matters
Minority men live at the intersection of three powerful expectations:
- Be strong like a man.
- Be cautious like a minority.
- Be perfect to survive.
That weight is heavy. This book gives language to the things men of color feel but rarely express. It offers tools you can actually apply, teaches emotional regulation in ways that make sense, and helps you move from survival to peace.
Healing isn’t about perfection. It’s about honesty. Presence. And the courage to finally choose yourself.