Unmasking: A Journey Through Trauma, Truth, and a Spectrum of Healing
by Kaitlyn Kenealy
Healing doesn’t happen by becoming someone new.
It happens by remembering who you were before the world taught you to hide.
In Unmasking, internationally acclaimed psychotherapist and bestselling author Kaitlyn Kenealy invites readers into a deeply honest, soul-level exploration of trauma, identity, grief, and what it means to come home to yourself.
Blending memoir with trauma-informed psychoeducation, this book moves beyond surface-level self-help and into the lived, embodied experience of healing. Through personal storytelling, nervous system wisdom, and reflections on neurodivergence, loss, and resilience, Unmasking challenges the idea that healing should be linear, quiet, or polished.
This is not a book about fixing yourself.
It’s a book about releasing what was never yours to carry.
Inside, you’ll explore:
The ways trauma shapes identity, behavior, and self-perception
What “masking” looks like emotionally, socially, and professionally
How grief, neurodivergence, and survival intersect
Why healing is nonlinear—and why that’s not a failure
Tools and reflections to support reconnection, regulation, and authenticity
Written for the high-functioning, the deeply feeling, the leaders, the helpers, and the ones who have done “everything right” yet still feel disconnected, Unmasking offers permission to soften, to tell the truth, and to reclaim the parts of yourself you learned to hide.
This book is for anyone who is tired of performing healing—and ready to live it.