A psychology and counseling student, Summer Carrillo, recorded her life. The result is I Thanked Myself Today. What started as a therapeutic release began an insightful journey through family relationships, romantic travails, and traumatic revelations. The book is a brief autobiographical account told from the point of view of Summer, as a young woman, reminiscing and psychoanalyzing her struggles with the interpersonal family constellation, childhood literacy, and sexual abuse. These stories are about weathering adversity to find self-actualization. She confronts her loving, but dysfunctional parents; her beautiful, but exasperating sister; and her troubled, but repentant cousin. She honestly examines her most significant romantic relationship and unravels what went wrong. Summer bravely lays bare her most intimate thoughts, feelings, and emotions. With the help of personal psychoanalysis, she attempts to make sense of what she has experienced. She explores the fundamental nature of complicated and sensitive relationships, and she analyzes the consequences. Through this detailed and fascinating journal, Summer, reveals numerous perceptive conclusions about life, death, love, and personal growth. Readers will understand and appreciate Summer"s bewilderment, pain, comprehension, growth, and ultimate joy.