What’s True About You by Katherine Woodward Thomas
Book Review & Overview
Katherine Woodward Thomas’ new book, What’s True About You: 7 Steps to Move Beyond Your Painful Past and Manifest Your Brightest Future, represents the leading edge of personal development, bridging the gap between trauma recovery and consciously creating a life you love.
Overview
In What’s True About You, licensed therapist and New York Times bestselling author Katherine Woodward Thomas reveals a revolutionary way to leave a painful past behind and grow into the abundant and fulfilling future you desire. (FSB Associates, 2026)
Through a radically effective, life-altering seven-step process, Thomas helps readers identify and release the false beliefs formed through past pain. These beliefs often operate beneath the surface, shaping how we see ourselves, our relationships, and what we believe is possible. By dismantling them, we are empowered to live and love as our true selves—the version we’ve always sensed we could, and should, be.
Rather than allowing the past to define or limit us, Thomas offers a refreshingly inspiring protocol for changing who we are today, opening the door to a brighter and more expansive future.
What’s Inside
The Seven Steps:
- Claim a Positive, Possible Future
- Name Your Source Fracture Story
- Wake Up to the True You
- See Yourself as Source
- Identify New Ways of Relating
- Embrace a Growth Mindset
- Make New Choices, Take New Actions
Part Two: The True You Breakthrough Blueprint
This section includes 22 core belief breakdowns designed to help readers pinpoint their specific fracture story, along with clear steps to finally break free from it.
Highlights
True You Premises
Premise #4: You Are the Source of Your Own Experience
Thomas emphasizes that while past experiences may not be our fault, we are fully responsible for the choices we make in the present. True healing begins when we stop blaming others and take ownership of our inner world:
“The breakthrough happens when you become willing to take 100 percent responsibility for yourself as the source of your experience.”
Step 6: Embrace a Growth Mindset
This step focuses on developing skills that support emotional and relational growth, such as communicating needs, expressing feelings honestly, and setting healthy boundaries.
Review
Katherine Woodward Thomas offers a compassionate yet practical roadmap for anyone ready to stop letting their past define their future. Her seven-step process helps readers identify and release deeply ingrained beliefs shaped by trauma, disappointment, and emotional pain.
The book balances emotional depth with actionable guidance. Thomas doesn’t rush readers toward positivity or manifestation without first inviting them to do the necessary inner healing. Through reflective exercises, real-life examples, and gentle but direct language, she shows how awareness can become a powerful gateway to transformation.
One of its greatest strengths is its emphasis on identity. Instead of focusing solely on changing circumstances, Thomas encourages readers to change who they are being in the present moment. As false narratives fall away, a more authentic and expansive self emerges, capable of deeper love, clarity, and fulfillment.
Ultimately, What’s True About You is both a healing guide and a hopeful invitation to reclaim your authentic self and consciously create a future rooted in truth, possibility, and self-compassion. It is highly recommended for fans of motivational and personal growth books, as well as anyone seeking meaningful inner transformation.
“Yet recognizing the impact that past trauma has had on us is just one leg of the journey. It’s not the destination itself. The destination we’re aspiring to is the ability to create our lives outside of the story we made up about ourselves in response to whatever happened to us.”
About the Author
Katherine Woodward Thomas, M.A., MFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, New York Times bestselling author, and a pioneer in transformational psychology. For over two decades, she has developed groundbreaking methods that help people move beyond healing the past and into consciously creating the future they desire.
Her books, Calling in “The One” and Conscious Uncoupling, have sold more than 600,000 copies worldwide and sparked cultural conversations around love, relationships, and conscious endings. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Today Show, reaching millions across the globe.
*Thank you to FSB Associates for the gifted copy for review consideration. I haven’t been compensated for this review and all views and opinions expressed are my own.
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