Healing Trauma Through Self-Parenting by O'Gorman and Diaz provides an intuitive, holistic approach to understanding dysfunctional relational patterns. It offers a hopeful, destigmatizing framework for conceptualizing, processing, and targeting change. As a counselor-in-training, this book helped me grasp the complexities of codependency. It introduced its origins in a positive light, showing how individuals and families often have good intentions but inadvertently maintain unhealthy patterns through enabling behaviors. Viewing codependency as maladaptive coping offers a path to healing, allowing individuals to address early attachment wounds and trauma. Given the rise in addiction and substance-related deaths, counselors must prepare to support families and loved ones of those in active addiction and early recovery. This book encourages focusing on the codependent individual, even within enmeshed systems lacking clear boundaries. It also offers vignettes demonstrating the use of Internal Family Systems (IFS) in therapy. Lastly, it provides an opportunity for counselors to reflect on their own unresolved family issues. This reflection can enhance self-awareness, helping counselors create a more authentic and conscious therapeutic self.