How can a self-help book shake you to your core? How can someone face death, look it in the eye, and stand tall amid their fear? How does one transform the hell of their life into paradise for themselves and their fellow human beings? How do they find something to hold on to at every level and build their new reality? How do they achieve a goal, even when everything is against them?

The answers are hidden in the book you hold in your hands. The heroes next door show the way for all of us, not with quick recipes for success, but with recipes that contain pain and effort. A hope, a thought, a positive sign, a conversation with someone, a sharing, a connection, become piece by piece the bridge connecting their old world with their new one.

They understood through a challenging process that pain is a matter of care, not management. Yes, you fall apart and are reborn. But this is the beauty, this is life, this is the (super) human that we all are, though sometimes it takes the hard way to realize it and put it into action.

Through the stories, each person will recognize aspects of themselves. Fears they haven't overcome, beliefs that are deeply rooted, experiences that have hurt them, but also the hope that there is always at least a speck of light in the dark and ways in which that speck grows and becomes a sun.