Overview

What if our pain isn't the end but a beginning? With breakdown on the rise-climate injustice, war, polarization, inequality-it's easy to feel helpless. Overwhelmed. Collective pain isn't just out there; it's in your body. And if you're like most people, you don't know what to do about it. But what if the pain we're feeling-individually and collectively-isn't proof of our demise, but a sign we're awakening to something deeper as a society? What if your experience has a role to play? When The World Hurts invites readers into a grounded, soulfully honest way of making sense of the world's pain. It offers a simple yet radical idea: our emotions about the world are part of her change. Far from being obstacles, they're doorways into collective wisdom if we have the right tools. Weaving together healing frameworks, social analysis, and storytelling, you'll explore: Why collective pain is on the rise, and what it might point toward. How to unearth wisdom within what you feel and use it to play the unique role the world needs you to right now. Collective wounds-what they are, how they show up-to better understand yourself and others politically. Whether you're a burnt out activist, a parent trying to stay hopeful for your kid, or simply someone who feels deeply in a world turned upside down, this book is for you. It's a shared space-a place to breathe, feel, and remember you're not alone. These pages won't tell you how to save the world. But they will help you be in relationship with her, so you can listen more deeply to what's being asked, and participate in the world's transformation from the inside out.

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""Liz Moyer Benferhat understands we humans have entered a pivotal time where we either rise together-or fall together. Her book offers gentle wisdom and supportive skills for a healing journey where we rise together. It is perceptive, poetic, and deeply personal. When the World Hurts is a testament to her life as a wisdom journey that has given birth to a book that is a wise and welcoming companion for these times of profound transition."" - Duane Elgin, author of Choosing Earth, The Living Universe, and others ""Part book, part guide, part analogue workshop, Liz's book offers a helpful pathway out of the dark woods we find ourselves in and into an active, affirming and change-focused relationship with the world's suffering. Drawing on a wide range of theories and wisdom traditions, When the World Hurts provides a theoretical and contextual background to collective trauma and healing, presented in a clear, accessible and often humorous style. Her question of 'What if the world isn't as broken as we think?' invites the reader to suspend cynicism and despair, and to fine tune our capacities to do the work that is required of human beings at this stage of our evolution-to listen deeply, to engage, and to co-create in order to clean up the mess, and create the future we know is possible."" - Becky Buell, Presencing Institute ""A healing guide from a singularly empathetic voice, Liz Moyer Benferhat's new book reframes today's apocalypse fatigue as growing pains for humanity. Liz unearths how the discomfort so many are sitting with today is tethered to deeper shifts in collective consciousness that must be moved through and offers insights for doing so wisely."" - Dr. Britt Wray, author of Generation Dread and Director of CIRCLE at Stanford Psychiatry ""Liz shows us that the ache we carry for the world is part of our humanity, and that by meeting our feelings with compassion, we can open the way to collective healing."" - Sarah Peyton, neuroscience educator and author of Your Resonant Self

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Feeler by nature, changemaker by trade. Twenty years in sustainable development have taught her how much heart goes into caring about our world-which is why she founded We Heal For All to support helpers and healers in having a healthier relationship with the world. Through Circles, courses, and community spaces, she brings a healing-centered approach to the inner dimension of social change. She holds a Master of Public Administration in Development Practice from Columbia University and lives in the Bronx, NY, with her husband, daughter, and cat.

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