As a child, Diana Morgan Dean endured an agonizingly toxic childhood replete with abuse, abandonment, cruelty, and painful loss. Robbed of her childhood and forced to endure physical, emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of her father, and withstand the tragic loss of her mother, Dean is determined to protect her younger siblings. But when her father and his cruel girlfriend send her away at the age of 14, she plummets into a decades-long search to reconnect with her family and find a way to grow from an anxious, fearful child into a healthy adult. When she finds the courage to dig deep into the muck that permeated her upbringing, she began psychotherapy and uncovered the inextricable link between facing her past and creating her future and went on to earn a Master’s Degree in Family Systems and a Doctorate in Psychology. Only through tragic loss was Dean finally able to find the family, the love, and most importantly, what she had been searching for all along.