Their voices emerged from behind prison bars; each cell held a distinct flavor—the imprint of a crime—yet, in truth, they were all innocent. Their prison was the very crime they had never committed, yet they had internalized it so deeply that it shackled them, preventing them from realizing their true selves. They did not realize the cell doors were unlocked and escape was possible; having grown accustomed to their confinement, they never imagined fleeing or the vast lives awaiting them outside. How could they, when those cells had been built by their own loved ones—parents, aunts, uncles, teachers, religious leaders, and community figures—all in the name of love or well-intentioned concern? Then, one day, someone dared to push the door ajar, letting in a glimmer of healing light. He ventured further into the corridor—lined with other cells of suffering—and called out to the captives, telling them there was light beyond the cages and that a life outside the prison was not only possible and guaranteed but not forbidden to them, as they had believed. Slowly, the doors opened, and the captives emerged, meeting on the path to a new journey—an escape from that "soft" prison. Along that corridor, they etched their tales of recovery and wrote their stories of healing on the walls, revealing the way out to anyone whom fate might one day cast into such a prison. From those very inscriptions, this book was born.