“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” —Oprah Winfrey The growing epidemic of parental abandonment, the need for identifying who one is as a person, and restoring one’s mental health is a crisis that people today face, but they hide it and sweep it under the rug due to the fear of the judgment of others. The book Growing Up Forsaken, which is an instructive and inspirational memoir/self-care book calls all “Forsakens,” who can also be considered to be the “Forgotten Children,” out of the shadows. It is the dawn of a new era, and this new era is the “Awakening of the Forsakens.” Come and read the story of how this Forsaken beat all the odds of adversity.