“A healing guide from a singularly empathetic voice.” - Dr. Britt Wray, author of Generation Dread
When the World Hurts
Why the World’s Pain Makes Sense—and What You can Do About It
In a time of breakdown and overwhelm, When the World Hurts offers collective healing as a grounded, soulfully honest way to understand the world’s pain and tools to work with it—so we can be of service to the world’s transformation from the inside out.
Launches Oct 22nd
Praise for When the World Hurts
Duane Elgin, author of Choosing Earth, The Living Universe, and others
“Liz 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. Perceptive, poetic, and deeply personal. A testament to Liz’s life as a wisdom journey… a wise and welcoming companion for these times of profound transition.”
Sarah Peyton, neuroscience educator and author of Your Resonant Self
“Shows us that the ache we carry for the world is part of our humanity… by meeting our feelings with compassion, we can open the way to collective healing.”
Becky Buell, Presencing Institute
“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. She invites us 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 to listen deeply, to engage, and to co-create the future we know is possible.”
Dr. Britt Wray, author of Generation Dread and Director of CIRCLE at Stanford Psychiatry
“Liz’s new book reframes today’s apocalypse fatigue as growing pains for humanity. She 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.”
ABOUT THE BOOK
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 presents collective healing and offers a simple yet radical idea: your 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.
INSIDE THE BOOK
Through reading and reflection, 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.
Healing frameworks, social analysis, & storytelling
Launches Oct 22nd
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Liz Moyer Benferhat
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.
