We Heal For All: The Collective Healing Podcast

We are taking in more of the world right now than at any other point in history — and it's doing something to us. Not just overwhelm and fatigue, but something deeper and more alive. A new kind of social consciousness is bursting forward, trying to take root. What helps this new consciousness actually land, take form, and become something we can live from. In this episode, I explore how embodiment and healing are what bring consciousness shifts down to earth. How building our capacity to be with the heavy, complicated stuff that comes with having our eyes so open — the pain, the moral weight, the disorientation — is what helps this new consciousness actually stabilize and take form. I draw on Dr. Rae Johnson's reframe of embodiment as capacity rather than self-care, Dr. Renée Lertzman's work on the inner dimension of social change, and the parallels between personal awakening and what's happening at the collective level right now. Show notes: 0:00 — Welcome 1:45 — This month's theme: embodiment and consciousness shifts 2:19 — Why I'm doing this one differently 5:09 — What I mean by consciousness 9:22 — What's unique about our awareness right now 12:13 — Awakening comes with grief and cleanup 15:11 — The parallel at the collective level 18:50 — Where embodiment comes in 20:01 — The printing press, abolition, and media opening eyes in mass 24:56 — How many eyes need to open before things change? 26:40 — Dr. Renée Lertzman on the status quo approach to social change 28:46 — It's not about more seeing — it's about supporting what comes with seeing 33:34 — Defining embodiment — Dr. Rae Johnson's "Embodiment Is Not Self-Care" 36:34 — Why this feels like a modern need 38:12 — Bringing consciousness down to earth through healing 43:04 — Insights from trauma studies 44:36 — The aliveness and opportunity in all of this 46:07 — Why rushing to action misses the point 50:39 — Closing and invitation 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

In this episode, I sit down with Fi Kahani — poet, digital nomad, and host of The Sound of Listening podcast — to talk about the practice of not knowing. Fi is someone whose worldview has been scrambled more than once, and instead of retreating, she's made that scramble a way of life. We get into what happened when people she respected came out as Trump voters, what it cost her when a close friendship couldn't survive their differences, and why she puts a disclaimer on her posts calling her own work "likely misinformation, propaganda, opinion, fluff and nonsense." This conversation covers a lot of terrain — from close relationships to the way we show up politically to pet hamsters. We talk about healing as what sustains activism, distress tolerance as a political skill, and what it actually takes to notice your own disgust toward an idea and get curious instead of shutting down. 0:00 Welcome   4:00 Fi's disclaimer: "This post is likely misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, opinion, fluff and nonsense"   6:30 The Yogananda quote — honoring and witnessing without judgment   9:00 Spiritual centrism and political nonduality   11:00 Fi's origin story and having her worldviews scrambled   14:30 Multiple realities and the limits of what we can actually know   15:00 A friendship that fell apart   17:00 Grief and letting things die so new things can come   21:00 Children are wired for justice   22:00 Healing sustains activism, not replaces it   25:00 Going within — the only landscape you can truly know   27:00 "You do not accept reality, so how could you ever accept love?"   31:00 Global shadow work   32:00 Helpful vs unhelpful thoughts   34:00 Noticing disgust toward an opposing idea and getting curious   36:00 Most people are walking the middle path of the extremes they know   39:00 Distress tolerance — from addiction therapy to politics   46:00 Unexpressed anger and the gift inside every emotion   49:00 The limitations of trying to change the world   51:30 Where to find Fi     Looking for community space for your practice of ‘not knowing?’ Join one of my upcoming collective healing Circles. Meditation, storytelling & resonance practice. Learn more here.   This episode is part of my April series on not knowing being a hallmark feature of our times. Subscribe to my Substack to get these directly in your inbox.   Connect with Fi Kahani: Instagram: @thesoundoflistening.podcast Substack: https://thesoundoflistening.substack.com/   Check out my book "When The World Hurts.”Read it here.   Connect with Liz: Substack: wehealforall.substack.com Website: www.wehealforall.com IG: @wehealforall FB: @wehealforall Youtube: @wehealforall Tiktok: @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

Grounding… have you heard of it? My guess is that you have. Maybe in the form of a practice, like a grounding meditation. Or maybe more as a quality: being grounded in how you move about the world. Grounding is so important for the times we live in. But as much as I see it espoused and thrown around (including by yours truly), I don’t see a lot of deep dives breaking down exactly what it is and why it’s needed. So that’s what I’ll do here. Because this month’s theme — the one I’m meditating on and exploring all month — is about the lack of groundedness these times offer us. How the earth beneath our feet is shifting and sliding so much that the majority of us, especially those of us who are paying attention to what’s happening politically, socially, culturally, environmentally, genuinely find ourselves in some version of not knowing these days— what to fully think, who to completely trust, or where we totally fit in. And while that comes with real challenges, it is also laced with opportunity: to use the tide of confusion we’re swimming in to get clearer about what we can root down into, what is unshakable even when everything else trembles, and what we want to carry forward as we co-create the world around us. Below I dig into what grounding is and what we’re culturally up against that makes it so hard. I then offer tips and techniques for your personal practice organized into four buckets: Grounding practices for in the moment (times when you’re overwhelmed or disoriented), Practices that help you get to know what grounding feels like for you, Spiritual or energetic grounding practices, and Practices that support you to ground into your values.   This is a free preview of the guided meditation. To listen to the full thing, become a paid subscriber through my Substack. You can try out a free 7-day trial to get a taste of it. Substack: wehealforall.substack.com Website: www.wehealforall.com IG: @we_heal_for_all FB: @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

Our fast-paced, ever-changing world can leave so many of us internally scrambled — without stable footing, unsure of where we stand or where we belong. Maybe that looks like pulling back because you don't think you know enough to participate. Or maybe it looks like the ground shifting under a worldview you've held for years, rocking your sense of self and who your people are. Either way, not knowing is an honest and intelligent response to what's going on these days. It doesn't disqualify you from participating. It means you actually already are. In this episode, I share the story of Ruby, an art teacher whose world got turned upside down when she first really opened her eyes to the reality of racism — and how she came looking for answers but found something much deeper. I explore why we cling to certainty (hint: it's not just about being right — it's about belonging), what grounded flexibility looks like in practice, and why what most of us need right now isn't more information — it's a container.   Timestamps: 0:00 – Welcome + what's coming this month on "not knowing" 3:30 – Ruby's story: wanting answers in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder 6:30 – Why not knowing leaves so many of us stuck 7:30 – Why we cling to certainty — and what it really gives us 9:00 – Not knowing as a hallmark feature of paying attention 10:00 – Grounded flexibility: staying rooted while open to change 11:30 – Living your principles in the gray areas 14:00 – Building our capacity for complexity 15:00 – Why we need containers, not more information 16:00 – What Ruby actually found   Links: Subscribe to my Substack to get this directly in your inbox. Collective Healing Circle — Sunday, April 19 at 6:30 PM ET Free 20-min Resiliency Boost session. Grab a spot here. My book, When the World Hurts   Substack: wehealforall.substack.com Website: www.wehealforall.com IG: @wehealforall Youtube: @wehealforall Tiktok: @wehealforall FB: @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

In this episode, I sit down with my dear friend Ning Nintendo — grief specialist, dream yogi, and founder of Multidimensional Mama — whose work helps name deeper layers often held in pain that conventional ways of thinking about emotions often miss. Together we explore the ancestral, intergenerational, and historical dimensions of what so many of us are feeling from the world these days, and ways to work with those layers for our own spiritual health and roles we’re meant to play in the world. This is a conversation about collective grief and collective pain, yes, but it's also about what becomes possible when we stop trying to carry it all alone. Ning shares about how her work with bereaved mothers has taught her about the layers beneath our personal stories — archetypal, ancestral, spiritual. We get into what grounded spirituality looks like in practice; how to tell if what you're feeling is yours or something tied to the collective, how to sit with collective rage without being consumed by it, and why healing in community isn't just nice to have but necessary. If you've been looking for ways to better understand what you’re experiencing these days, grab a cup of tea and join us.   0:00 Welcome and introduction 3:50 The bigness of grief — beyond conventional frameworks 11:00 How collective fields amplify personal pain 17:00 The dark night of the soul at a national level 22:30 How to know when it's collective 32:00 Multidimensional Mama — reclaiming ancient wisdom 35:30 Holding both — opportunity and injustice 38:30 Grounded spirituality and working with rage 44:30 Compassion without erasing accountability 46:00 Why we need collective healing spaces right now 50:00 Spiritual boundaries in healing work 1:00:00 Finding where you fit 1:07:00 Invisible allies and the practice of surrender 1:09:30 Where to find Ning   Join me for community space to collectively heal. If you're looking for a community space to practice these tools in, I have an online collective healing Circle coming up this month. Join and learn more here.   This episode is part of my March series on how personal and collective pain get entangled. I have a guided meditation practice for paid subscribers, followed by more tools and conversations on this theme. Subscribe to my Substack to get these directly in your inbox.   Connect with Ning Tendo: Instagram: @multidimensional.mama Website: https://www.multidimensionalmama.com/   My book "When The World Hurts" is available on Kindle for free for the next month. Read it here.   Connect with Liz: Substack: wehealforall.substack.com Website: www.wehealforall.com IG: @wehealforall FB: @wehealforall Youtube: @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

So much of what you’re carrying right now about the state of the world lives in your body — in your chest, shoulders, belly. And so often, we either push it down or get swept up in it. There's not a lot of support for the in-between: learning how to actually be with what yo’ure holding, on your own terms, without being consumed by it. This guided somatic (fancy word for body-based) meditation gives you that support. You'll settle into your body, find the ground beneath you, and build an inner container — a felt image of spaciousness and strength — that can hold your experiences with the bigness of these times. From there, you'll gently practice moving toward what you're carrying and coming back up for air, again and again, at your own pace. Along the way, you may start to notice layers within what you're holding — parts tied to your ancestry, your past, and the collective. The intention here is to just witness. See and sense what’s present with you. Not to fix any of it, but just to understand so you can approach what you’re holding with more compassion and grace. This practice is for you if you're feeling the heaviness of the world and want a warm, trauma-informed way to be with it. If you sense that there's something powerful in learning how to simply stay present with what you're carrying — and you'd like some company while you do it — then this is the practice for you. And if you’re looking to go deeper on this topic of layers — the way the personal and collective can intertwine and speak to each other — check out my latest Reflection piece I shared last week, When Personal Pain Meets Political Heat. I’d love to know what you think. Sending you love. This is a free preview of the guided meditation. To listen to the full thing, become a paid subscriber through my Substack. You can try out a free 7-day trial to get a taste of it. Substack: wehealforall.substack.com Website: www.wehealforall.com IG: @we_heal_for_all FB: @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

Are you feeling overwhelmed and burnt out by world events and political stress, and wondering why it all feels so heavy?  In this episode, I explore the often unspoken phenomenon of how our own personal pain can get caught up in and mixed up with the world's pain–with the political breakdown and suffering we see around us–and how all of that can merge into something bigger and harder to navigate that overwhelms us. I share helpful tips on how to reframe your thinking, as well as practices and tools that’ll help you untangle what’s personal (stress, wounds, childhood stuff) from what’s collective so you can participate in your own healing process, the healing of society, and finding a way, collectively to move forward, so we can give birth to a better world. In this episode, you'll discover: 00:19 - Intro 2:49 - The Raindrop Metaphor for Emotions 4:52 - When My Pain and the World’s Collided 7:19 - Collective Wounds: The Pain That Isn’t Just Ours 9:57 - When Politics Becomes an Outlet For Personal Pain 11:31 - Practices For Untangling Personal Wounds From Collective Wounds 12:33 - Real-life Example Takeaway 14:46 - Outro   Upcoming online We Heal For All Circles: Support-group style community space for collective healing - Sunday, March 8th 6:30pm EST + Sunday, March 22nd 6:30pm EST. >> Sign up here Read my book for free on Kindle: Here   Substack: wehealforall.substack.com Website: www.wehealforall.com IG: @we_heal_for_all FB: @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

Sending you big love from my home in the Bronx.I’m really excited to share this with you —It’s my first big interview of my new book, When the World Hurts!I had the pleasure of joining Moments with Marianne, an ABC Talk News Radio affiliate that airs in Southern California, last week to talk all things collective healing. As a literary publicist, Marianne hosts authors and leaders to talk about their work in spirituality, personal growth, and social change. It was a blast! And a trip to listen to myself on a live radio show when it aired.We talked about what it means to be in relationship with the world right now. Her description frames it so well, too—why our emotional responses to what’s going on can be the beginning of meaningful change.We covered things like:* What collective pain and collective wounds are, including past-, present-, and future-oriented wounds* Living in an “age of awareness” and how our up-close relationship with global events affects us* How slowing down, creating space, and processing emotions can unearth insight and wisdom, especially as it relates to the times we live in* Common emotional responses to everything that’s going on: hyper vigilant savior mode, burnout, numbness, ambivalence, helplessness* The connection between emotions and culture change, including collective anxiety as a marker of shifts in social order* The importance of compassion in how we relate to ourselves and others in these times* What collective healing looks like being practiced in communities, organizations, and international settings (including UN spaces and youth climate groups)Take a listen and let me know what you think!Substack: wehealforall.substack.comWebsite: www.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforall This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

With this month’s theme being about soul connection—specifically this idea that the times we live in and all of the pain and muck they’re filled with, have the potential to bring us closer to our souls—I knew exactly who I wanted to have a conversation with.Shawna Emerick is so many things—1000+ hour trained yoga teacher, trauma-informed and somatic integration facilitator, Thai body work therapist, Circle facilitator. But above all of this—or, better put, throughout all of this—Shawna is someone who truly lives and leads from a place of soul connection. Both in her life (with family and friends) and in how she works with community members and clients, like through her A.L.I.G.N. coaching sessions (more on that below).So when it comes to questions like:What does it really mean to connect with your soul in practice, in your day-to-day life? And what does it have to do with the times we live in—the breakdown and pain we’re going through as a world?Shawna was the perfect person to partner up with.If you’re looking to come down into your heart space and reflect on the times we live in, grab your tissues and check out this episode. In it we explore:* What it actually means to connect with your soul* Holding humanity’s heart through your inner world and sensitivity* Transmuting guilt of privilege, safety, comfort into something generative.* Offering micro-moments of happiness, joy, peace as a dedication to others.* How to spiritually keep your eyes and heart open to the suffering in the world* Grief as a doorway and its role in opening us to that soul essence connection that’s all around us and within each one of us* The importance of compassion with awarenessI love Shawna so much, and loved our time together in this conversation. I hope you do too. Take a listen and let me know what you think. And if you know someone who would receive from this, please share it with them.Sending you love, LizLearn more and connect with Shawna EmerickSelf-Compassion for Hard DaysFree resourceA series of three guided meditation practices (each under 10 minutes) to help restore some level of resilience during particularly difficult days. Along the way, she also explores some of the most persistent and often damaging myths about Self-Compassion. » Get them hereA.L.I.G.N. Coaching SessionsAlive | Loving | Imagined | Guided | NurturedThrough her ALIGN sessions, the client learns how to become their own guru, their own coach, their own Guide. Being better able to understand their bodies cues, their bodies emotional intelligence, their hearts deep wisdoms, their intuitive knowings, and deepening their trust within themselves as they strengthen their ability to discern the messages received from mind, body, and heart. » Learn moreYoga ClassesUptown NYC & onlineThe classes I lead become a sacred space, a sanctuary, and a home for you. Within the intentions in every class, there is a space in which to contemplate lifes curiosities, magnificence, and doubts. Spiritually infused words, quotes, texts, are used to support the contemplations as we move together. The movement is created in relationship with the intention; the two becoming a moving exploration for feeling and embodying the emotions that are stirred. » Sign up & learn moreThai massage body workThai yoga is a therapeutic practice that integrates passive stretching techniques with acupressure to enhance flexibility and circulation‚ relieve tension‚ anxiety and stress‚ and detoxify the body. » Learn more This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wehealforall.substack.comWelcome to this month’s supportive practice in my Reflect-Practice-Conversation series. These practices are offered as part of my paid subscription here. Try out a free 7-day trial.---The upheaval and pain we’re in the midst of as a society right now can so often feel like an end. But in traditions across time and space, we are taught that pain and disruption like this can be used as a passageway into something deeper.They can serve as an opportunity to descend into parts of ourselves we may have forgotten. To uncover new truths and capacities about ourselves that we need to move forward—both as individuals and as a society.In this guided visualization—a meditation that uses imagery and scenes in your mind to help you access your inner knowing—you are invited to work directly with the disorientation and heaviness of these times, and to connect with a deeper layer of wisdom within yourself.You’ll journey downward through the cracks in the world into a deep and luminous space where your soul’s knowing lives. You’ll receive wisdom there and bring it back with you to plant in the very cracks you came from. Places in your life and in the world that feel most fractured right now.This practice is tied to my recent Reflection piece, What is your deeper prayer for these times?, and draws on mythologist Michael Meade’s Three Layers of Life framework: the surface layer of normalcy, the second layer of upheaval and breakdown, and the third layer—the layer of the soul—where our deepest wisdom and soul-level knowing live.This visualization is for you if you are feeling the pain of the world and want a grounded, soulful way to work with it. If you know there are opportunities held within the mess, and are looking for support to tap into the unique ones that live within you.Let me know what you think.---How can I access the meditation?This meditation is a perk of being a paid subscriber. Each month I offer a new practice in support of collective healing—meditations, visualizations, and embodiment exercises that help you work with the reality of our times and use the energy that’s here to be of service to this time of change.For $5 a month, become a paid subscriber to access this meditation and the full library of collective healing practices.Reach out if you have any questions: [email protected]: wehealforall.substack.comWebsite: 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

What are you praying for these days?Is it to end violence? To stop genocide and war? Peace for all people?Yes, of course, those prayers are there, but there's something even deeper my heart is longing for.It's the prayer that all we're experiencing right now—the despair, the terror, the confusion—may it bring us closer to our souls. May it help us know ourselves and this world at a soul level more intimately. Not just for ourselves, but for this greater time of transformation itself. In today's episode, I explore where we are collectively as a society using mythologist Michael Meade's framework of the Three Layers of Life:The First Layer - The everyday world. The surface level where "everything is fine." Normalcy, facts, and ordinary expectations rule the day.The Second Layer - Dysfunction and upheaval. Where shadows live—our deeper anxieties, fears, and ego. This is where we are now, collectively. The cracks in the First Layer are everywhere, and we feel them in our bodies.The Third Layer - The layer of the soul. Where spiritual fruits live—Universal Love, deep wisdom, interconnectedness, and grace. This is where we go when we spiritually awaken, and it’s right on the other side of Layer Two.So many of us are crumbling under the weight of everything right now, which makes sense. But, as odd as it might sound, this is actually an opportunity for us to connect more deeply with our own souls, especially as it relates to the times we live in. Take a listen and explore returning to your soul and helping your community do the same. Our world desperately needs it right now.Know someone who has been feeling the weight of everything recently? Send them this episode and help us connect. We need each other these days. Don’t know where to start? You can always start here by saying hi and letting me know what you think! Sending love, LizSubscribe: wehealforall.substack.comWebsite: www.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforall This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

What happens to a person whose job it is to sit with other people’s pain day after day?And what might that teach the rest of us about living in a world that brings us face-to-face with so much suffering—through the news, social media, current events—without ever being taught how to process it?That’s what I wanted to chat about with my husband, Dr. Anees Benferhat, a healing-centered therapist and psychiatrist in this episode of the We Heal For All podcast.What’s it like for him as a practitioner to be so close to other people’s pain day-in and day-out? How does that affect him, personally? And what kinds of things does he do to support himself so that what he witnesses and absorbs moves through him rather than accumulates?In this conversation, we discuss:* His role as a therapist who walks alongside another person in their pain (as opposed to being a detached observer), and the emotional impact that has.* Why he can’t simply “switch off” at the end of the day, and what he does instead.* What happens when he doesn’t create time to transition and how that connects to media/news consumption.* The whiplash of going from cat picture to tragedy in our social feeds.* The need for updated cultural models for emotions, especially as it relates to the world.* The role of “other people” in holding what’s too big.* What holds people back from finding community space to process what’s going on in the world, and what we as collective healing practitioners can do differently.* Three tips for working with what you’re carrying after scrolling or reading the news.I hope you enjoy this conversation and get something out of it. If you do, let me know! And if you have guest recommendations or topics you’d like explored, please send them my way.Subscribe: wehealforall.substack.comWebsite: www.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforall This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

“I don’t know how everyone else is just living their lives right now.” Camila said to me as we pushed our kids’ strollers down the snowy sidewalk.“I look around and people are just smiling and laughing and acting like everything’s normal. Like everything’s fine! But it’s not.” Her voice got loud and her body got big, and then shrank back down.She went on, “I don’t know. I don’t wanna sound like a douche bag but it’s like… I just don’t want to care this much.” I heard a self-doubt I was all too familiar with.“I just can’t turn it off. Maybe if I wasn’t so damn sensitive this wouldn’t hit me so hard…”I stopped in my tracks and grabbed her arm. “You’re not the problem here. The newness of it all is.”When It Starts To Feel Like Something’s Wrong With You Camila’s spiral is all too familiar. I hear different versions of it often.It often begins by looking around. Seeing other people living their lives, seemingly unaffected by everything going on. They talk about weekend plans, the latest show they’re watching, what they just ordered online. You watch them laugh, complain about small things, keep things moving and wonder, are we really living in the same world?If everyone else seems fine, then maybe the problem is me?That’s when the thoughts start to turn inward. What begins as a response to what’s happening in the world becomes a verdict on self.Maybe I’m too sensitive. Maybe I’m not resilient enough. Maybe I’m not built right.Other people seem fine—why am I not?Underneath those thoughts is often something a bit deeper and more complicated. A clash of values that goes something like:Caring this much is costing me something. I don’t know how to live my life holding all of this. Being open feels unsafe. Paying attention hurts.And so the question shifts from what’s happening to how do I make this stop?When the weight has nowhere to go, it turns to a familiar and understandable conclusion: maybe I should shut down. Going numb is better than being raw. So you stay busy, keep things light, avoid certain conversations, scroll without really reading. Not fully disconnect—just turn the volume down reeeaal low.Over time, it can feel like there are only two choices: feel everything and fall apart, or shut down in order to survive.And once it’s framed that way, it’s easy to conclude that the ‘feeling’ part of the equation is the problem. That feeling as much as you do is what needs to be fixed.This Isn’t Personal Failure. It’s Humans In TransitionBut here’s the thing that often gets missed:We are not just reacting to world events. We are being changed by what we see.Never before have we had such a continuous, intimate view of what’s happening in the world. Not in fragments. Not after the fact. But in real time. What was once distant, now lives in our pockets, serving as a constant backdrop to our minds.This level of proximity doesn’t just inform us—it changes us. And this process of being changed has just begun.We are humans-in-transition, not individuals-failing. The spiral Camila described makes sense. Disorientation, grief, wanting to shut down, look away are normal responses to change.Astronauts talk about the Overview Effect, the experience of looking down at Earth from space and being profoundly changed by what they see. Their sense of our interconnectedness heightens, a responsibility to take care of the planet blooms.Seeing from a new vantage point changes them, whether they want it to or not. The astronauts can’t necessarily prepare themselves for it (well, maybe with a little LSD…), or anticipate the impact, but they are forever changed because they have seen something they can’t unsee. An internal reorganization has taken place.From Burden to ResourceThis is the same that is happening for us as a people.When we say, “I can’t hold this much,” we’re not describing a personal flaw. We’re describing what it feels like to be in transition: between an old way of relating to the world and a new way that hasn’t yet fully formed.When there’s no context for what’s happening, sensitivity becomes a burden. But feeling this much isn’t a problem in and of itself. The problem is trying to support what we’re experiencing with outdated models that treat emotions as private, feelings as weakness, and “being normal” as being unaffected. These frameworks no longer hold.What feels like a burden can become a resource when we have the right ways to relate to it. When we have ceremonies, language, and collective support that helps us change. We need tools that help us ebb and flow and evolve alongside the world herself. And that create the conditions for the depth of what we feel to become the real resource that they are.Let me know what you think in the comments.Reflection Prompts to Take Home With You* In what ways, consciously or subconsciously, have you looked at your feelings as a personal flaw? Especially as it relates to what’s going on in the world.* What’s it like to shift towards seeing them as part of an ongoing process we’re in the midst of? As a reflection of humans being in transition as opposed to an individual failing? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

Sending warmth from my home in the Bronx. I saw our first snowflakes today! Cozy season is upon us.Forgive me for sending out another thing related to my book. I’m in the midst of doing some behind-the-scenes work in prep for the new year and a new phase of work that’s brewing post-book launch. I promise I’ll be getting new, fresh pieces out shortly!In the meantime, for those of you who—like me—enjoy a good audio journey (or just truly don’t have time to read), here is a recording of me reading Chapter 1: An Invitation of my book.Grab your head phones and a cup of tea and join me!If you’re looking to keep going, you can buy my book here or enjoy the Kindle ebook version for free for the next month. Liz from We Heal For All is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wehealforall.substack.comWhat is your soul’s vision of the world?In these upside-down times, when so much is breaking down, what can we turn to for guidance? When our impact assessments fail and our political narratives implode, what sources of ‘knowing’ can we lean on?Social change is always a moving target, but especially so now. We may never know if what we do creates the ch… 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

This question might sound metaphorical: What's your relationship like with the world? "You mean, like, theoretically?"But what I’m actually asking—and what I invite you into in today’s episode—is what’s yours like for real, for real?What’s it like to be in relationship with the world these days—in very practical, everyday life kind of ways?How is the world impacting you? And how does that affect how you impact it back?In this episode, I unpack what I mean by ‘being in relationship with the world’ and explain why it’s at the heart of my work. I explore topics like:* Seeing the world as an animate being - Meaning she is a ‘she’ or ‘he’ or ‘they’… or however you want to think about it! The world is alive. How does that reframe shift how you approach her?* What being in ‘relationship’ means - There's a dynamic give and take between you and the world, and how you relate to her impacts how you show up.* You’re part of the collective whether you like it or not - Even if you run off and be a cave yogi, you’re still part of the collective body. Therefore there’s the need to figure out your relationship with the world.* It makes sense that you’re affected by her - Not just materially, but spiritually, psychologically and emotionally.* Moving from ‘fixing’ to relating - Sure, yes we need to solve problems, but my pitch here is that meditating on our relationship with the world will help us do so, will impact how we respond and co-create the change we want to see.Take a listen and let me know what you think!I dive deeper into all of this in my upcoming book "When The World Hurts" coming this October. It's my debut book and I'm really excited and grateful to be getting it out there, I’d love for you to be involved.Reach out, I'd love to connect.Sending love to you and your relationship with the world,LizSubscribe: wehealforall.substack.comExplore: www.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforallCourses ・ Guided meditations ・ Coaching ・ Speaking & Workshops This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

Ooph, just re-reading that subtitle "...do politics differently" does something for me.Politics feels so inherently stuck these days. And not just on Capitol Hill—but for us as a people.Our ability to relate to each other—to neighbors, to family members—has been seriously tested in recent years. It’s a waste of pixelated ink to write about how frequently relationships implode because of politics. It’s like our relational tools just can’t handle it!Differing views of reality + the intensity of the times = make it seemingly impossible to be humans together right now.Which is why the idea that we could do politics differently—and be humans together in this politically charged time differently too—inspires me. It creates a little space in the back of my heart for possibility to grow.Which is what I invite you to explore with me here in this podcast episode.What if we could do politics differently by meeting each other in the collective wounds underneath our political narratives, instead of the stories at the surface?In this episode, I share my take on ideas like:* Collective wounds drive our politics - Collective wounds are imbalances and emotional imprints carried by society due to harm, injustice, and unmet human needs. They’re at the heart of our politics—ie. the things we care about and want to change.* We're all "tuning forks" for certain wounds - Depending on who we are and how we’re made up, different collective wounds will hit differently. It’s like our personal architecture (based on history, disposition, body) makes us more sensitive or attuned to different wounds, which explains why certain issues impassion us more than others.* We can meet each other "below the surface" of political narratives - Our main M.O. for politics is arguing facts and political stories. Instead of getting stuck there, we can learn to recognize what collective wounds live underneath what the person is saying, even the most challenging (cough, cough horrendous) political views, and meet them there, human-to-human.Take a listen and let me know what you think!I do a deep dive into collective wounds in my forthcoming book, “When The World Hurts: Why The World’s Pain Makes Sense—And What You Can Do About It.” Coming out this October.It maaayy be one of my favorite chapters in the book, so I’m excited to hear what you think.Drop me a line, ask a question. Send me an emoji 😛 I’d love to connect.Thanks for being here and being you, LizSubscribe: wehealforall.substack.comExplore: www.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforallFlagship courses ・ Guided meditations ・ Coaching ・ Speaking & Workshops This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wehealforall.substack.comThe theme of loss has been alive for me lately.Two people in my life passed away last week—Joanna Macy, renowned eco-philosopher and activist behind The Work That Reconnects (foundational work within the field of inner-outer transformation), and Andrea Gibson, prolific poet and queer voice I’ve followed since my Philly college days. Referring to them as people in my life feels a little odd, as I didn’t know them personally. But they’ve been voices, teachers, lights influencing me for years, so their back-to-back deaths feels spiritually significant.It has brought me into a larger reflection on loss—the many forms it takes, and the different qualities each one holds. The loss of a loved one, a relationship. Losing a job, a home. Losing yourself in something or someone for sometime. Wanting that part back.And then there’s the more pervasive sense of loss that permeates the collective these days. I’m thinking about my country, in particular. A cultural decay, death spiral of sorts. The erosion of things as we seemingly spiral downwards.In the episode I share with you here, I explore the invitation that’s alive for me within this reflection: what it means to really sit in the experience of loss and see what it has to offer. What is the deeper purpose or meaning buried in this loss? And can I support myself to be with it—be with the experience of loss—in a way so that it can show itself to me?In the first half I dive deeper into these reflections, and then the second half I offer a guided meditation that invites you to do the same. To create space for your experiences of loss—whatever forms they may take—to see what they might reveal to you.The guided meditation is for paid subscribers.Grateful for you being here.Subscribe: wehealforall.substack.comExplore: www.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFlagship courses ・ Guided meditations ・ Coaching ・ Speaking & Workshops 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

This week’s episode’s a special one.I'm reaching back into the vault to a recording I made in August 2022. It’s one of my many attempts to put words to the moment we’re living in. Even though it's a few years old, and some framing and nuance has shifted, the core ideas remain the same and central, and are at the heart of my upcoming book.The recording dives into a smoldering questions that’s been shaping me for over a decade:How can we shift things at the collective consciousness level?Through reflections on sociologist Émile Durkheim’s work on the collective consciousness, I explore how the expansion of our global awareness is bringing with it not only overwhelm and disorientation—but also opportunity.What if this moment that we’re living in, and the unimaginable growth we’re experiencing in our collective awareness of ourselves as a world, is a new entry point we can explore this question through?What if the crisis of consciousness that so many of us feel right now, as our awareness of global suffering outpaces our tools to process it, actually creates an opening?It’s the case and call to collective healing as I’ve come to see it. Collective healing that helps us digest everything and show up more wholeheartedly, and—of extra importance and relevance to this piece—helps us tap into the evolutionary potential of this moment, that exists within what’s happening.Subscribe: wehealforall.substack.comExplore: www.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforall This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

If you've ever spent any time diving deep into emotions, you may have come across the term: core emotions.Core emotions are often thought about as the bread and butter of our emotional landscape—our anger, sadness, disgust—and they're often contrasted against what can be called inhibitory emotions like anxiety, or shame, or guilt.If this way of thinking about emotions is totally new to you, no worries—because in today’s episode, we’re going to break down the difference between these categories and play around with the question:What makes a core emotion ‘core?’ Why are they thought of as different than, let’s say, shame? And does that change across cultures?I am joined by the one, the only, Dr. Anees Benferhat—known as just Anees to me. He’s a healing-centered psychiatrist and psychotherapist here in New York City, and happens to be my husband, partner, love of my life, and rock.We go deep on exploring the differences between these categories of emotions—and have some fun doing it too.Having maps like this to understand our inner worlds is such a gift that the times we live in offer us. And they’re tools we can use to learn how to navigate all the gut-wrenching, confusing, heinousness of the times that we live in.So my hope is that you walk away with more grounded frameworks and tools to think about and explore your inner world—both for your own sanity, and mental and spiritual health, as well as for the unique role that you're meant to play in this world, right here and now.Subscribe: wehealforall.substack.comExplore: www.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforall This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

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

"If you’re a Republican, this is over," his mentor of ten years told him. Just like that, a decade of work—conversations, memories, laughs—would be down the drain if he dared to be the dreaded "R" word.“This is why I’m a moderate,” my friend, a lifelong Democrat, told me. “I can’t get down with that.”If you’re like me, you’ve seen this before. You know this story. It’s a dynamic on the left that’s been around for a bit now. One that’s hurting people—especially from within—and driving them away.It’s what I want to create space for here—the reality of political-relational wounds and what we can do to heal them.In particular we’ll look at ones related to left-leaning politics, although the larger theme here is applicable across the board. We’ll look at:* What political-relational wounds are and how they live in social fields.* Why—of all things—I’m putting a sharp eye on parts of the left.* The opportunity we have in front of us.* Ways I’ve been experimenting with how to create spaces of cultural healing for them.If you’re looking to offer collective healing space like this, consider checking out my We Heal For All Circle training—a self-paced program to get you started.Flagship courses ・ Guided meditations ・ Coaching ・ Speaking & WorkshopsSubscribe: wehealforall.substack.comExplore: www.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforall This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

In a day and age when the world’s pain is up in our faces like never before, how do we make sense of the rise in collective wounds—anxiety, confusion, despair, trauma—that we feel?Does it mean we’re inherently doomed? Or is there another way to look at it that a healing-centered lens offers?What I share here is the sense-making that’s been coming through me in response to these questions.It’s a vision of collective healing, as I’ve come to understand it—a vision that sees opportunity in pain and holds a sense of wonder at the possibility that our awareness of our collective wounds may mean we’re resourced enough to heal them.In this podcast episode, I share an audio recording I did in 2021 for the Presencing Institute’s Global Forum. It’s the thesis that’s at the heart of my forthcoming book.This 2021 recording is one of the many iterations of me trying to put form to this felt sense calling around collective healing, especially the big picture vision of it. Even four years later, with the thesis continuing to evolve and develop, I like how this version turned out and am excited to share it with you.I’d love to know what you think. Write to me and let me know. Grateful, LizFlagship courses ・ Guided meditations ・ Coaching ・ Speaking & WorkshopsSubscribe: wehealforall.substack.comExplore: www.wehealforall.comDigital shop: wehealforall.podia.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforall This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

Slowing down is a foundational practice within the collective healing work I do, in which I help people be in relationship with a world that’s changing fast and in a lot of pain. It’s about slowing down, feeling deeply, and making meaning of what’s happening inside us so we can meet the world we live in as it is, and be of service to it with more clarity, compassion, and purpose.Because of all of this, slowing down is at the heart of everything I do here. Which is why I’m spending extra time on it for this month’s guided meditation—offering techniques for the practice of slowing down, in hopes that they might support you, in some way, shape, or form, to deepen your personal practice.In this episode you’ll find 9 tips (or techniques) for the practice of slowing down, like:1. Make yourself comfortable, physically (8:05)2. Discharge any excess energy (9:22)3. Prioritize your sense of safety (11:37)4. Take deep, slow belly breaths (12:45)5. Be slow with your attempts to slow down (15:50)6. Hum, sing, and sway (17:42)7. Ground into your body (19:59)8. Use your environment to cue that you’re practicing (22:36)9. Get to know what slowing down looks like for you (23:43)Thank you for the big work you’re doing. Grateful to be walking together.If you like conversations on emotions and healing + the times we live in subscribe to my podcast or Substack to tap into more of that.If you’d like more practices like this, consider becoming a paid subscriber to my Substack. I share monthly guided practices that take a deep dive into practices like this.You can also shop around for specific guided meditations and online courses in my digital shop here: wehealforall.podia.com.With love, LizSubscribe: wehealforall.substack.comExplore: www.wehealforall.comDigital shop: wehealforall.podia.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforall This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

This is the first (of hopefully many) podcast episodes with my amazing husband, Anees Benferhat. We’re bringing some of the healing-centered pillow talk that happens in our home out into the world and straight to you.In this one, we talk about shame and motivating social action.It was sparked by an awesomely thoughtful question I received in response to my recent piece, Why it’s so hard to speak out and what we can do about it, where I made the case for alternatives to shame-based models of activism. The reader asked:Is shame always bad? What even is it? Especially with everything going on, is there ever a time when shaming people into doing something is the right way to go about doing it?We took this gift-of-a-question and ran with it. Thank you for it!For those who don’t know Anees, he’s a deeply skilled psychiatrist and psychotherapist based here in NYC. Skilled not just because of his years of training and clinical experience—but because of his heart and ability to attune.He’s a true healing-centered practitioner, bringing the best of what we know about relational neuroscience and emotions to every person he works with.I’m so lucky to have him to talk shop with about all things healing and emotions—both at home in our free time and now here with you.We hope you enjoy.--Enjoy this? Thanks! Let me know by following or subscribing below. Your support means a lot. wehealforall.substack.comwww.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforall This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

The word ‘resistance’ isn’t doing much for me these days. It conjures images of angry activists and sit-in’s and a way of being that just doesn’t jive. Not like it did in the past.But in the face of this new Trump term and the onslaught of illegal and unconstitutional things taking place, I’m feeling the need to dig in my heels, create friction, and do something —anything!—to counter what’s going on.Which is where my inner world comes in.As I rack my brain and have conversation after conversation with friends about what the f*ck is going on, a sliver of opportunity that’s been showing itself to me is the role my inner world plays within all of this. The power and sovereignty of it.Because in the context of political strategies that rely on me being overwhelmed and isolated for them to work, my inner world becomes a frontline for resistance. So that’s what I want to play with here and invite you into with me. This idea that, when things feel totally out of our control and deeply devastating there are still things we can do—even in the inner recesses of our minds—to push back and respond.What do you think?wehealforall.substack.comwww.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforall This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

We are conduits for this time of culture change.The collective consciousness shifts that are taking place for society, they manifest through us.Everything that we're feeling right now, all of the pushing and the pulling, the tension, the heaviness, the uncertainty, the questions—that's here in service of those shifts.wehealforall.substack.comwww.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforall This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

There’s a lot to process right now. It’s overwhelming for many people I know. Between their own personal feelings and responses from others to political pundits’ takes to thoughts about the future, it’s an endless cascade of things to sort through. The practice I’m knee deep in right now, is letting all that’s moving and stirring within me shape me. Letting the feelings and fog that are kicked up in my mind and body be in process in whatever way they need. Not just for me or ‘the work,’ but because this is where rubber meets the road when it comes to consciousness shifts. Consciousness shifts specifically related to the collective.wehealforall.substack.comwww.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforall This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

The world needs your unique take on what’s happening in the world—socially, culturally, politically, environmentally, cosmically. I'm a big believer in this. It’s how we get a bigger picture view of what’s happening, and tap into insights that are uniquely coming through each of us.But if I’m being honest with you. I struggle to do this. Especially the sharing side of that equation. There’s a lot of risk and fear that comes along with sharing my unique views (or any views) these days. So I wanted to dig into that. I’m using this share to dive into:1. Why it's so hard to come up with our own unique takes on what's going on globally, societally, culturally, politically these days. 2. Why it's also really challenging to share that with others, to be open about that. 3. Some principles of practice that I've been arriving at and am hopefully putting into practice even by sharing this.The video came out a little jumbled ideas-wise, but hey, that’s okay. Some themes it touches on are:* Systems thinking and the skills we need as everyday people to do it* Divergence of opinion, building our capacity for it* Knowing what spaces and relationships are safe to process in * Boundaries when engaging others about the world, sharing my opinion Looking forward to your thoughts on this one! Much love!wehealforall.substack.comwww.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforall This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

Fields of energy related to social issues—do you ever think about that? I do. And this video and written piece are me playing with putting words to that.It’s a piece of the puzzle that I find often missing from the conversation about social change and why it can be so hard to hold these dense, layered topics.But it’s a layer that I think is key, especially for those of us who are heart-based and spiritually-oriented.Recognizing that this is a thing—that we’re all affected by the energy held within these topics—doesn’t mean that we shy away from them or disengage. Instead it means we engage more smartly. I recognize when I’m being affected by the energy of a situation and when it’s happening for another and choose to proceed with awareness and care. Yes, because it’s a kind thing to do but also because it’s the most constructive way to engage.wehealforall.substack.comwww.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforall This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

Being a change maker may be something you identify with or not. Often times the term evokes images of a fire-y activist or Mother Theresa type. But in my view, it's something much more commonplace and subtle at times, and is something a lot of us are already doing in response to our changing world.I share reflections on three ways I'm currently thinking about what it is to be a change maker and how collective healing helps.Change makers are:→ Cultural edge workers—engaged in an ongoing practice of reflection and contemplation about the edge they’re working at→Pioneers and guinea pigs—experimenting and using their lives as a sandbox to do so→ Of service to the world through their presence—through the way they practice living, and therefore embodying, their valuesLet me know what you think! wehealforall.substack.comwww.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforall This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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

It can seem irrational to have feelings about things that are outside of our control, especially when it comes to the world. That's my friend's conclusion, anyways. He is convinced he can override his feelings with a good, strong dose of logic. While I can appreciate his strategy, emotions just don't work that way. I share highlights from our conversation together on the neurobiology of emotions, how to work with them, and the all too common experience of dissociating when reading the news. wehealforall.substack.comwww.wehealforall.comIG: @we_heal_for_allFB: @wehealforall This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wehealforall.substack.com/subscribe 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