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When the World Hurts: Why the World's Pain Makes Sense-and What You Can Do About It
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Publisher: We Heal for All LLC
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 is a book about emotional healing that 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 and finding meaning in life. We just need the right tools to work with them.
Drawing from years of work at the intersection of sustainable development, systems thinking, and trauma-informed healing, Liz Moyer Benferhat presents a self-help guide to collective healing- practical tools based in mindfulness of emotions. She introduces her We Heal For All Circle model, a practice that helps people work with the emotional impact of change by connecting with themselves, each other, and the world through co-created wisdom.
As one of those books with heart, When the World Hurts weaves together healing frameworks, social analysis, and storytelling to explore:
- Why collective pain is on the rise and what it might point toward.
- How to unearth wisdom within your grief for the world, and how to use it to play the role the world needs you to.
- A different theory about feelings related to politics-diving deep into collective wounds to better understand yourself and others in our polarized times.
- Tools for political awareness for change that bridge inner work with outer action.
Whether you're a burnt out activist seeking political self-help, a parent trying to stay hopeful for your kid, or simply someone who wants to do good in a world that's upside down, this book is for you. Among books about how to face life in challenging times, this one offers 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 be of service to the world's transformation from the inside out.
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
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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