Collective wounds: past. present. future.

EPISODE · Jun 6, 2025 · 3 MIN

Collective wounds: past. present. future.

from We Heal For All: The Collective Healing Podcast · host Liz Moyer Benferhat

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wehealforall.substack.comCollective wounds come in all shapes and sizes.  Some are specifically held by certain communities and family lineages due to histories of conflict or oppression. Others are shared across a whole country, such as experiences of war or pandemic. And then others are held by identity groups that span across locales, such as shared experiences of injustice or alienation.Getting to know what collective wounds are, and the unique ones you are naturally attuned to is more important than ever. It can give you more insight into yourself—your body, your family lineage.And it can also give you more insight into the role that you’re meant to play here on Earth at this time. What are the values that you’re being called to protect? To shout from the rooftop? To manifest more fully into the fabric of our culture these days?In this offering, I do something a little bit different than what I typically do for my guided meditations. Instead of a pure meditation visualization, what I'll do is share a framework for thinking about collective wounds—specifically using a time-based framework, organizing them as ones related to the present, the past, and the future.You'll then have an opportunity to see that framework in practice through me sharing my own lived experience with the current wildfires in Canada and the smoke that's coming down the Northeast from them.The invitation here is instead of passively listening to my share, engage with it from a place of inner observations. So noticing what you notice as you listen—your body, your mind, your heart. Noticing what shifts or changes. In order for you to start to build a felt sense of this framework, and an embodied understanding of what collective wounds are and how you personally feel and sense them.I would love to know what you think, how this lands, how this feels. Please write to me and let me know at [email protected]. And if there are others in your life who you think would resonate with this or need this, please share it with them.Subscribe: wehealforall.substack.comExplore: www.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforall Subscribe to my Substack to get this directly in your inbox.Collective Healing Circles — Sunday's 6:30pm ET My book, When the World Hurts Substack: wehealforall.substack.comWebsite: www.wehealforall.comIG: @wehealforallYoutube: @wehealforallTiktok: @wehealforallFB: @wehealforall

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