Climate Anxiety, Political Grief & Empath Burnout — A Healer's Guide | Liz Moyer Benferhat

Climate Anxiety, Political Grief & Empath Burnout — A Healer's Guide | Liz Moyer Benferhat

Feeling the weight of the world lately? You're not imagining it — and you're not alone. In this episode, Charla talks with Liz Moyer Benferhat, founder of We Heal For All and author of When the World Hurts: Why the World's Pain Makes Sense and What You Can Do About It, about collective grief, climate anxiety, empath burnout, and how to actually process the emotional weight of today's world instead of suppressing it. Liz spent nearly 20 years in sustainable development and grassroots social change across Africa, South America, and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network before founding We Heal For All in 2018 to address the burnout and emotional toll she witnessed in changemakers — and in everyday people. Through her signature circle model (meditation + storytelling + resonance practice), she's helped hundreds process grief, anxiety, and overwhelm in community rather than alone. In this episode you'll learn: * The real difference between personal grief and collective grief * Why highly sensitive people and empaths feel world events more intensely * How nervous system regulation gets misunderstood as "controlling" emotion * Why emotions need space, not suppression, to move through the body * The difference between cognitive empathy and somatic (affective) empathy * What a "collective container" is and why healing circles work * How collective consciousness shifts through individual healing * The story behind Liz's book When the World Hurts * How to join a circle, attend a retreat, or train to become a circle facilitator Guest: Liz Moyer Benferhat, MPA in Development Practice (Columbia University), founder of We Heal For All Book: When the World Hurts: Why the World's Pain Makes Sense and What You Can Do About It — available at wehealforall.com/books and Amazon Website: wehealforall.com [http://wehealforall.com] Substack: wehealforall.substack.com [http://wehealforall.substack.com/] IG: @wehealforall Podcast - We Heal For All: The Collective Healing Podcast We'd love to hear from you! 💛 If you have a story to share, a question for the show, or just want to connect, reach out anytime: 🌐 Website: https://collectiveguidance.com/ [https://collectiveguidance.com/]📩 Email: charla@collectiveguidance.com 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collectiveguidancepodcast/?hl=en [https://www.instagram.com/collectiveguidancepodcast/?hl=en]🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/collective-guidance-with-charla-goodnight/id1841118592 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/collective-guidance-with-charla-goodnight/id1841118592]📺 Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@CollectiveGuidancePodcast [http://www.youtube.com/@CollectiveGuidancePodcast] 💫 JOIN THE COLLECTIVE MEMBERSHIP: Weekly movement + meditation Zooms with Charla. https://collectiveguidance.com/collective-membership-1289 [https://collectiveguidance.com/collective-membership-1289] ⭐ If this episode helped you feel less alone, please rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify — it helps this show reach more people who need it.

If Someone Makes You Dim Your Light, They're Not Your Person

Charla Goodnight returns after a 30-day hiatus to share the real reason behind her absence — the end of a two-year relationship that fell apart over her spiritual path. In this raw and honest episode, she talks about the recurring pattern of partners who couldn't hold space for her spirituality, why she'll never dim her light for anyone's comfort again, and how she used automatic writing to move through the grief. She closes the episode by reading an original automatic writing piece live. Topics Covered: * Taking accountability for a month away from the podcast * The end of a two-year relationship and what it revealed * A recurring pattern: relationships ending over spirituality * Releasing people who aren't "your people" without resentment * Ego pain vs. soul growth * Automatic writing as a grief and healing practice * A live reading of an original automatic writing piece We'd love to hear from you! 💛 If you have a story to share, a question for the show, or just want to connect, reach out anytime: 🌐 Website: https://collectiveguidance.com/ [https://collectiveguidance.com/]📩 Email: charla@collectiveguidance.com 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collectiveguidancepodcast/?hl=en [https://www.instagram.com/collectiveguidancepodcast/?hl=en]🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/collective-guidance-with-charla-goodnight/id1841118592 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/collective-guidance-with-charla-goodnight/id1841118592]📺 Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@CollectiveGuidancePodcast [http://www.youtube.com/@CollectiveGuidancePodcast] 💫 JOIN THE COLLECTIVE MEMBERSHIP: Weekly movement + meditation Zooms with Charla. https://collectiveguidance.com/collective-membership-1289 [https://collectiveguidance.com/collective-membership-1289] Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so you never miss an episode.

78: Full Moon in Capricorn + Jupiter in Leo + Mercury Retrograde | Self-Inventory Ritual

What have you accomplished in the last six months — and what are you ready to release? In this episode of Collective Guidance, host Charla Goodnight guides you through a heart-centered self-inventory ritual designed to track where you've been and clarify where your soul wants to go. Released on the Full Moon in Capricorn — the same day Jupiter moves into Leo and Mercury goes retrograde into Cancer — this episode is a timely invitation to reflect, release, and realign with your soul's desires. Charla shares why the Full Moon is the ideal time to review the six months since the New Moon in Capricorn, a simple nightly self-inventory practice, and how the shift of Jupiter into Leo amplifies your self-expression and manifesting power. She also reframes Mercury Retrograde in Cancer as an invitation to slow down, communicate with compassion, and lead from the heart. You'll walk away with practical grounding tools — hydration, music, movement, and "joy as resistance" — to raise your frequency and step into the big, expansive energy of Jupiter in Leo season. In this episode: * The power of self-inventory for soul evolution * Using the Full Moon to reflect on the last six months * A nightly practice to release what no longer serves you * Jupiter in Leo: bigger expression, bigger manifestations * Moving through Mercury Retrograde in Cancer with patience * Grounding rituals and joy as resistance * The heart as the true center of manifestation Spirit always has your back. Call on your angels and guides — they're here to support you. We'd love to hear from you! 💛 If you have a story to share, a question for the show, or just want to connect, reach out anytime: 🌐 Website: https://collectiveguidance.com/ [https://collectiveguidance.com/] 📩 Email: charla@collectiveguidance.com 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collectiveguidancepodcast/?hl=en [https://www.instagram.com/collectiveguidancepodcast/?hl=en] 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/collective-guidance-with-charla-goodnight/id1841118592 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/collective-guidance-with-charla-goodnight/id1841118592] 📺 Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@CollectiveGuidancePodcast [http://www.youtube.com/@CollectiveGuidancePodcast] 💫 JOIN THE COLLECTIVE MEMBERSHIP: Weekly movement + meditation Zooms with Charla. https://collectiveguidance.com/collective-membership-1289 [https://collectiveguidance.com/collective-membership-1289] If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who could use it today.

77: You're Not Broken — You're Carrying Your Ancestors' Unfinished Stories

In this heartfelt and grounding episode, host Charla Goodnight explores the relationship between prayer and meditation — and how both practices became her lifeline during personal conflict and relationship pain. Inspired by a quote from Rick Rubin — "Prayer is talking to God. Meditation is listening" — Charla unpacks what it truly means to find stillness, calm your nervous system, and reconnect with your soul during life's most challenging moments. Charla opens up about navigating a significant argument in a two-year relationship, how she prayed for resolution, and how leaning on her angels, guides, and spiritual support system brought peace within 24 hours. She also shares a powerful reframe for anyone grieving the end of a relationship: it's not a loss — it's a change in frequency. What You'll Hear in This Episode: * The difference between prayer and meditation (and why you need both) * Charla's personal pre-meditation breathwork routine * How conflict affects your nervous system — and how to come back to center * Why relationships end when frequencies can no longer align * How to grieve a relationship ending from a soul-level perspective * A beginner-friendly 1-minute meditation using box breathing Box Breathing (Try It Today): Inhale 4 counts | Hold 6 counts | Exhale 6 counts. Set a 1-minute timer and breathe. Key Reminder From This Episode: You are not alone. You are always supported by Spirit, your universe, and God — and there are others walking the same path. We'd love to hear from you! 💛 If you have a story to share, a question for the show, or just want to connect, reach out anytime: 🌐 Website: https://collectiveguidance.com/ [https://collectiveguidance.com/] 📩 Email: charla@collectiveguidance.com 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collectiveguidancepodcast/?hl=en [https://www.instagram.com/collectiveguidancepodcast/?hl=en] 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/collective-guidance-with-charla-goodnight/id1841118592 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/collective-guidance-with-charla-goodnight/id1841118592] 📺 Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@CollectiveGuidancePodcast [http://www.youtube.com/@CollectiveGuidancePodcast] 💫 JOIN THE COLLECTIVE MEMBERSHIP: Weekly movement + meditation Zooms with Charla. https://collectiveguidance.com/collective-membership-1289 [https://collectiveguidance.com/collective-membership-1289]

76 : You're Not Broken — You're Carrying Your Ancestors' Unfinished Stories

What if everything you keep experiencing — the patterns, the relationships, the recurring struggles — are actually karmic records written in your own DNA, waiting to be cleared? This week's guest is Horus-Poraz, spiritual teacher, ceremonialist, sound healer, and founder of House of Horus — a digital and in-person platform blending ancestral knowledge, ritual, and creative activation to support personal and collective transformation. His work weaves Egyptian cosmology, the Akashic Records, sound, and movement through ceremonial spaces and one-on-one mentorships to guide individuals toward their soul self. What we talk about in this episode: * What the Akashic Records are and why they exist within your body, not outside of it * How your spine, blood, and DNA carry your ancestral line's stories and unfinished lessons * The spin technique — a practical tool to release karmic patterns and lock in manifestations * Egyptian cosmology, the 64 Neteru, and the significance of the Duat in 2026 * Horus's personal journey: going viral at 16, dimming his light for 10 years, and his awakening during the pandemic * Pineal gland activation, astral projection, and encounters with star beings * Why the pyramids functioned as cosmic supercomputers and the original internet * How ancestral healing shows up in your everyday reality * The beauty and medicine of being queer, authentic, and a shape-shifter in this world 🔗 Connect with Horus-Poraz: Website: houseofhorus.world [https://www.houseofhorus.world/] Wanna get your reading: https://www.houseofhorus.world/shop/p/akashic-records-reading [https://www.houseofhorus.world/shop/p/akashic-records-reading] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/house.of.horus/ [https://www.instagram.com/house.of.horus/] We'd love to hear from you! 💛 If you have a story to share, a question for the show, or just want to connect, reach out anytime: 🌐 Website: https://collectiveguidance.com/ [https://collectiveguidance.com/]📩 Email: charla@collectiveguidance.com 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collectiveguidancepodcast/?hl=en [https://www.instagram.com/collectiveguidancepodcast/?hl=en]🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/collective-guidance-with-charla-goodnight/id1841118592 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/collective-guidance-with-charla-goodnight/id1841118592]📺 Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@CollectiveGuidancePodcast [http://www.youtube.com/@CollectiveGuidancePodcast] 💬 Drop a comment — what came up for you watching this? If this episode moved you, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts — it helps more people find this work. Share it with someone who is in the middle of a pattern they can't explain. They need this.