Introduction When the World Hurt is not a book you read—it’s a space you enter. Liz Moyer Benferhat has crafted something far more intimate than a typical self-help guide. This is a workshop disguised as a manuscript, a shared emotional container between the author, the reader, and the collective human experience. Written between 2018 and 2025—and shaped intensely by the tumultuous years of 2023 to 2025—the book feels like a mirror held up to a world in pain, yet also to a humanity waking up. At its core, this is a book for the people who care deeply, feel intensely, and are tired of oscillating between hope and heartbreak. For those who scroll the news with a knot in the stomach, who lie awake at 3 a.m. wondering what the future holds, and who are torn between staying informed and staying sane—this book is your companion. A Workshop for the Soul Benferhat opens the book with an unusual but compelling framing: this is not a “read and close” experience—it is a workshop. A shared space. ...
Have you heard of a person who ate chappatis made on burning bodies in a cemetery? Yes, there exists a woman who lived in that condition and yet helped 1200+ orphan children to achieve their dreams. Her name is Sindhutai Sapkal, and she faced challenges throughout her life, and she faced those challenges in a great way. She got married at the age of 9 and her husband was 20 years older than her. Her in-laws were not good and they used to beat her and one day her husband beat her so much that she became unconscious. Her husband dragged her to the cowshed when she was unconscious and untied all cows. At that time Sindhutai was pregnant and gave birth to a child in the cowshed. In one of Sindhutai's interviews, she explained how she had broken the umbilical cord by hitting a stone nine times. She left her home immediately and reached a railway station. Sindhutai started singing so that the passenger will give her some money. She faced so many challenges that one day she decided t...