Steve Leder knows things - about overcoming loss, grief, repairing lives and marriages and he shares what he's learned in "More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us My book, More Beautiful Than Before; How Suffering Transforms Us, is a book about real pain in its many forms and the lessons it comes to teach us. It describes a journey through pain in three stages: surviving, healing, and growing. It is an exploration of pain’s fierce, … In the spirit of such classics as When Bad Things Happen to Good People, A Grief Observed, and When Things Fall Apart, More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us examines the many ways we can transform physical, psychological, or emotional pain into a …