Review of The Unfakeable Code®
- Kitche Akinyi
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Review of The Unfakeable Code®
The Unfakeable Code® asked for my presence throughout — not just intellectually, but emotionally, spiritually, and in a strange way, almost energetically. From the opening chapters, Tony Wall’s voice didn’t come across as someone trying to convince me of anything. Instead, he felt like someone laying out a series of invitations, asking me to meet myself beneath the layers I didn’t even realize I was wearing. It’s a book that doesn’t pretend to know what truth should feel like for you. Instead, it encourages you to recognize what your own truth has sounded like all along — even if you've spent years ignoring it.
One part that stood out to me was his take on spirituality. There’s a section where Tony talks about “vibrational alignment,” which in some books might’ve felt floaty or disconnected, but here it was grounded in the idea that emotional congruence — the feeling of saying what you mean and living in a way that mirrors your values — has an energy to it. Whether or not you subscribe to ideas like energetic coherence or quantum field awareness, I think most of us know what it feels like to be off. And Tony’s version of alignment felt less like a cosmic blueprint and more like a return to integrity. He doesn’t ask you to believe in anything dogmatic. Instead, he nudges you to notice when your inner compass is pointing away from the map your upbringing handed you. I found that framing both freeing and — strangely — sobering.
There’s this tension he addresses between inherited beliefs and personal truth, and it hit close to home. For years, I carried certain moral and spiritual narratives that never sat right with me, but I didn't know I had permission to question them. Tony doesn’t shame tradition, but he does question default thinking. There’s a section where he writes, “If it was taught to you in fear, it’s not your truth.” That line made me sit still for a while. Not everything we outgrow is wrong — but some of it is misfitted. And this book gave me language for that dissonance without making me feel like I had to abandon everything I came from.
One thing I really appreciated — I can say this clearly — was how much space the book gave to emotional honesty. There’s this moment where Tony writes, “To suppress anger is to trade authenticity for approval.” That landed so hard. It reminded me of all the times I’d smiled through situations I should’ve walked away from. He doesn’t demonize any emotion. Anger, fear, envy — they’re all part of the “emotional field” he talks about, and the goal isn’t to eliminate them but to learn their language. That felt like a deeply spiritual concept, even though he never used religious terminology to express it.
Still, there were moments where the book’s lens on relationships — especially romantic or family dynamics — felt just a bit too tidy. There’s an undertone that if we just do our inner work, we can fix anything through vulnerability and communication. And while I agree with that in spirit, I wish there had been more space to say: hey, some relationships are actually unsafe, manipulative, or just beyond repair. There’s a difference between triggers and trauma, and sometimes the tools for one don’t work for the other. But maybe I’m biased by experience, who knows?
Even with that, I’m giving this a full 5 out of 5 stars. Not because it was perfect, but because it left me different. I read a lot of books in this genre that give me motivation for a week. This one gave me questions that are still unfolding. I’m not sure everyone will connect with terms like vibrational truth or inner alchemy, but I do think everyone — whether spiritual, skeptical, or somewhere between — will find something that rings true if they’re willing to get quiet enough to listen.
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The Unfakeable Code®
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