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. ...
Introduction Social anxiety is a disorder in which you suffer from a long-term fear of social situations. It is more than just shyness rather it's a fear that affects our everyday activities, relationships, and self-confidence. It does not go away. The spotlight effect is even worse for people with social anxiety as has a huge impact on your ability to work. People feel uncomfortable around others and feel embarrassed all the time. Spotlight effect and its examples The spotlight effect is a cognitive bias in which a person believes that the world is always watching him/her. In it, a person overestimates how much people notice him and thinks that people are paying much more attention to him than they actually do. In the spotlight effect, you feel like every move that you are making is under the microscope of the public eye that highlights your successes and failures, both. Very common examples of the spotlight effect include various situations like when you realize that your zipper ...