What's True About You

7 Steps to Move Beyond Your Painful Past and Manifest Your Brightest Future

By: Katherine Woodward Thomas

Narrated by: Katherine Woodward Thomas

“Insightful and powerful ideas from a world-famous therapist!” —Carol Dweck, New York Times bestselling author of Mindset

Break free from your past, embrace the true you, and unleash your brightest future

A lot of us have been trying to “fix” ourselves for a really long time. We’ve spent years “working on ourselves” and analyzing our past to try to get beyond it. We assume that once we understand why we are the way we are and heal all the wounds of our past, we’ll finally be free to live the lives we yearn to be living.

Yet healing and transformation are two different domains. The truth is that while healing your past can certainly save your life, it won’t necessarily change your life.

In What’s True About You, licensed therapist and New York Times bestselling author Katherine Woodward Thomas reveals a revolutionary way to leave behind a painful past and grow into the abundant and fulfilling future you desire.

In this book, Thomas guides us through her radically effective, life-altering seven-step process. This process liberates us from the false beliefs we have about ourselves—born of past pain—and empowers us to begin living and loving as our true selves. The version of ourselves we’ve always sensed we could, and should be.

We no longer need let our past define or limit what’s possible. Instead, by following Thomas’s groundbreaking and refreshingly inspiring protocol, we can change who we are today. We can manifest the positive possibilities we hold for a bright and beautiful future for ourselves and for our world.

Critic reviews

"Insightful and powerful ideas from a world-famous therapist!"
—Carol S. Dweck, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Mindset

"What’s True About You is an important evolution in trauma healing. A beautiful guide to authenticity, integrity, and power."
— Marianne Williamson, New York Times bestselling author of A Return to Love

"What’s True About You is answered prayer for those suffering with the unwanted residue of a difficult past. It lays out a clear and accessible pathway to solidify a new sense of self that is free of the hurts of the past and empowered to manifest a life of success, happiness, and abundance."
— Jack Canfield, New York Times bestselling author of The Success PrinciplesTM

"With both heart and rigor, Katherine Woodward Thomas guides readers to release the grip of old identities and step into a new way of being that is rooted not in trauma but in intention, imagination, and love."
—Laura Berman, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Sex Magic

"If you’re ready to deepen your self-awareness, What’s True About You must be your next read. Katherine Woodward Thomas offers us a detailed and wise exploration of how we make meaning in our lives. Then, from this place of insight, she guides us through her Breakthrough Blueprint—a powerful tool for rewriting our stories toward wholeness and health."
—Alexandra H. Solomon, PhD, adjunct professor at Northwestern University, bestselling author of Love Every Day, and host of the podcast Reimagining Love

"What’s True About You is transformational gold. It introduces a potent and unparalleled process to radically outgrow who you’ve known yourself to be and step fully into who you were born to become. A brilliant guide to get you unstuck and catapult you toward the future you desire.”"
—Marci Shimoff, New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason

Fresh perspective to self help work

I love how Katherine guides us towards empowered self that is creator of the future, no matter of our past. Is not all about understanding, dwelling and healing our past. Time to move to empowered creator. I love her list of Source Factory Stories, you will definitely found yours and she will guide you to the other side, owning your power. Highly recommend. Creating your new future is healing the past.

Highly Highly Recommend!!!

What’s TRUE About You is phenomenal—clear, awe-inspiring, and genuinely life-changing. It offers a grounded path forward with practical steps that feel both compassionate, fierce, and exacting. Listening to Katherine read the book added another layer entirely; her presence, pacing, and conviction brought the work alive, deepening my understanding and leaving me energized and inspired. This book deserves wide readership and serious praise.