🎙️ The people trying to save the world are burning out. But what if our grief and anger aren't liabilities, but the intelligence we need to keep going?

In this episode of Tangelic Talks, hosts Victoria Cornelio and TJ Omojomolo sit down with Liz Moyer Benferhat, founder of We Heal for All. With nearly two decades of experience in sustainable development, grassroots activism, and UN policy, Liz noticed a critical gap in the social impact sector: a complete lack of emotional support for the people confronting the world's most existential crises.

Liz challenges the ”taboo” around emotions in professional spaces, explaining why regulating our nervous systems shouldn't just mean ”clamping down” on our feelings. She breaks down why anger is actually vital organizational data, how trauma psychology helps us cultivate political will without burning out, and why ”toxic positivity” and forced hope can actually hurt social movements.

Because we can't build a sustainable movement if the people building it aren't treated as human.

In this episode, we cover:

🧠 The cultural taboo of emotion: Why clinical psychology and neuroscience prove our feelings are packed with intelligence.

🔥 Reframing anger: How to view frustration and grief not as a burden, but as essential ”organizational data” for leaders.

⚖️ Desensitization vs. Empathy: Why nurses need to be desensitized to blood, but social impact workers cannot afford to be desensitized to human suffering.

⭕ The Circle Model: Liz’s social technology for slowing down, storytelling, and collective healing without forced vulnerability.

😷 COVID-19 & Collective Trauma: How the pandemic and the BLM movement forced organizations to recognize the need for identity-specific processing spaces.

🛑 Toxic Positivity: Why accepting periods of ”low hope” actually builds the grit and maturity needed for long-term activism.

🌱 Finding your place: Liz's advice on shifting from ”needing to change the world” to authentically participating without losing yourself.

🔹 About Our Guest: Liz Moyer Benferhat is the founder of We Heal for All. Following a career in UN policy and sustainable development, she built her organization to provide emotional resilience, collective healing, and climate psychology tools to leaders and change-makers on the frontlines of global crises.

💬 Join the Conversation: Do you think the push for ”resilience” in the workplace sometimes just feels like forced positivity? Drop your thoughts in the comments 👇

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