What do you do when life doesn’t go as planned — when the rug keeps getting pulled out from under you, and the ground beneath you feels like shifting sand?

Born To Rise is a powerful and deeply personal memoir about navigating setbacks,
rediscovering your strength, and finding the courage to begin again. Through real-life experiences and heartfelt reflection, Lorna Blake shares a journey of resilience, reinvention, and rising into a new chapter of life.

Born To Rise encompasses a young woman’s journey from abandonment, abuse and rejection to her empowerment and success. It tells the story of a young girl who felt counted out, discounted and knocked down by the hand she was dealt at birth.

From being abandoned by her father at birth to abuse by her mother, the death of her beloved grandmother and sexual abuse by a stepfather, she felt she had been walloped by life.

How could she possibly climb out from under it? With the strength of her ancestors encoded in her DNA, she refused to stay down. She found a way to courageously rise from obscurity to infinite possibility.

She shares her story with humor, eloquence and wisdom to inspire others to recognize they too have the power to climb out from under and create a fantastic comeback from life’s setbacks.

A story of resilience that proves rising is always possible.