Who Told You This Was True?,

Who told you that being strong meant holding everything together? Who decided that healing should follow a timeline, that grief should eventually become easier, or that moving forward meant leaving the past behind?

In Who Told You This Was True?, Pippa J Thomas explores the beliefs we inherit about grief, trauma, identity, belonging, strength and healing, and the ways those beliefs can quietly shape how we see ourselves and the lives we believe we are supposed to live.

Drawing from lived experience, profound loss, trauma, motherhood, ADHD, relationships and the ongoing process of rebuilding after life changes everything, Pippa reflects on what happens when the answers we once relied upon no longer fit the person we have become.

This is not a book of rigid steps or quick fixes. It will not tell you how quickly you should heal, forgive, let go or move on. Instead, it invites you to become curious about the beliefs you carry and to question the stories you may have accepted as truth.

What if strength can include vulnerability? What if grief is not something we are meant to finish? What if being sensitive or different does not mean there is something wrong with you? And what if healing is not about becoming someone new, but slowly finding your way back to yourself?

Warm, compassionate and deeply reflective, Who Told You This Was True? is an invitation to trust your own experience more deeply, listen to the voice within you and ask one simple question:

Who told you this was true?