We Heal For All: The Collective Healing Podcast

"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...

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...

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 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 spe...

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...

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.com www.wehealforall.com IG: @we_heal_for_all FB: @wehea...

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...

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...

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...

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 h...

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,...