Are we in pain because we’re finally waking up to our collective system, and our place within it? In this episode of The Shattering Place, I’m joined by Liz Moyer Benferhat. She is an author, somatic educator, and founder of We Heal For All. Drawing from nearly two decades in international development, Liz shares her transition from high-level policy spaces to healing-centered approaches, exploring how emotional awareness, authenticity, and community circles drive genuine societal change. Together, we unpack a powerful truth: our inner reactions to global crisis, whether anger, grief, or total numbness, are vital clues to our core values. When we allow ourselves to feel these states deeply rather than bypassing them, we gain the clarity needed to fuel authentic, sustainable action. Join us as we explore why the most critical work of our time might just begin within, how that connects to consciousness and awakening, and how processing the world’s pain together may even be the answer to planetary evolution. The Shattering Place - Where this podcast began! Want to go deeper into the architecture of the New Human? Before the interviews of Season 2, there was the solo narrative of Season 1—a journey exploring the somatic dimensions of psychic phenomena, ancestral frequencies living in your cells, and how to actually ground your body when the world feels like it’s collapsing. Catch up on the foundational framework and read the complete Season 1 Episode Guide here: https://michelledixonwriter.substack.com/p/the-shattering-place-podcast-season The Stillpoint Community: Exclusive writing, videos, and live community calls. Committed to exploring the multidimensional nature of reality—from awakening experiences and quantum consciousness to collective evolution, collapse, and the daily practice of presence and compassion. Bridging inner alignment with outer impact, this space offers a discerning, deeply substantiated, and therapeutically grounded approach to consciousness, rooted in a deeply felt care for the state of our world. https://linktr.ee/michelle.dixon IKONA the novel – “A compelling and mind-bending SF story.” — Kirkus Reviews This podcast was inspired by the multidimensional themes in the novel IKONA by M.D. Dixon, the host of the Shattering Place. Purchase your copy and explore the visionary world behind the transmission here. “In Dixon’s epic fantasy novel, various seekers pursue an object that can lead them to paradise … In this time-twisting, centuries-spanning yarn, Dixon delivers an engaging narrative of searching for utopia … Threads of religion, mysticism, meditation, and past lives are woven throughout the narrative, giving this story a soul-touching, deep vibe.” — Kirkus Reviews Purchase Links: https://books2read.com/ikona IN PRACTICE: WORKING WITH MD Dixon 90-Day 1-1 Program: A Return to Self A high-depth, three-month container designed to reclaim your most authentic, multidimensional self. Synthesizing Evolutionary Astrology with evidence-based somatic modalities, we map your deeper life architecture to align your nervous system with your soul’s mission. 👉 Secure your spot here: https://evolutionary-soul-map-bundle.systeme.io/ About Our Guest Liz Moyer Benferhat has spent nearly two decades in sustainable development, where she kept witnessing the same thing: burnout, grief, and an inner toll nobody talks about. What she found wasn’t a problem unique to activists or policymakers. It was a human problem. In 2018, she launched We Heal For All to address what she saw as the missing piece in social change work: the emotional lives of the people doing it. Through her teaching, she demystifies emotions, what they are, how they move through the mind and body, and why understanding them changes everything. In her signature Circle model, participants process those emotions experientially, together, unearthing wisdom within what they feel. The work has helped hundreds of people, parents, professionals, healers, and everyday humans trying to make sense of it all, move through the world’s pain rather than be flattened by it, and find their place in changing it. Her sustainable development work spans from grassroots programs in Africa and South America to SDG policy through the UN’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and her research has been published in Columbia University’s Consilience Journal. She holds a Master of Public Administration in Development Practice from Columbia University and lives in the Bronx, New York. Her award-winning debut book, When the World Hurts: Why the World’s Pain Makes Sense, and What You Can Do About It, is available now at wehealforall.com/book. Connect with our guest: Website: www.wehealforall.com Substack: wehealforall.substack.com IG: @wehealforall Podcast - We Heal For All: The Collective Healing Podcast Get full access to Trauma, Growing Up, Waking Up at michelledixonwriter.substack.com/subscribe
