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Life coaching tools for aid workers. Hi, I’m Yasmina. Half-Spanish and half-Algerian. Former journalist. Actually, no, scratch that: it’s plain abysmal.

Recovering stressoholic.

10 years in the non-profit world, including several L3 emergencies. I absolutely LOVE my job as an aid worker and I consider myself pretty driven, focused and brave BUT…

I know what it’s like to:
- Want to scream into a pillow at the demands and pressure of my job.
- Crawl under the bed in despair when work and personal relationships don’t go the way I want them to go

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- And feel like giving up when the going gets tough. The mental health and psychosocial support provided by the system is pretty inadequate. I felt therapy wasn’t for me because I didn’t feel fundamentally broken or needing to be “fixed”. I just needed help to learn to manage challenges better. I found myself having to figure out on my own how to be ok and keep going.
- How to be ok and keep going when I felt like I was choking under the weight of my to-do list, because there are simply not enough hours in one day to deliver all the work and value required.
- How to be ok and keep going when I was mentally and physically exhausted.
- How to be ok and keep going when a nasty colleague — or office/inter-agency politics — poisoned the working environment, slowing down our ability to deliver, day after day.
- How to be ok and keep going when I felt that nagging disconnect between my personal values and the way I was asked to do my job.
- How to be ok and keep going when the sadness and guilt overwhelmed me, as I contemplated how tiny a drop in the bucket the aid we were offering actually represented.
- How to be ok and keep going when my deployments made my relationships with my partner, my parents and my friends back home too complicated to handle.
- How to be ok and keep going when there was ongoing fighting outside our compound and we were afraid.
- How to be ok and keep going when colleagues were killed and abducted while serving, and the pain became paralyzing.
- How to be ok and keep going when I went home for R&R and people called me a “hero” and “amazing” and I felt like an imposter.
- How to be ok and keep going when I left the front lines and couldn’t find a way to readjust to my comfortable life-style and an HQ working environment — when depression took over for months. And well… I did figure it out. Through self-development books, useful posts on social media and a ton of work on myself, I found simple but effective answers to my problems. I learned to manage my thoughts and my emotions, so they would support me, instead of keeping me stuck. I rewired myself entirely. Slowly and profoundly, things across all areas of life became easier to handle. I started becoming who I wanted to be. With a life that actually fit me. I wanted to share these tools and breakthroughs with as many people as possible, so I became a certified professional life coach. And so this space is for that: help aid workers feel better no matter where they are and no matter what life throws at them. I hope you find it useful.

02/06/2025

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01/06/2025

You know how you wake up every day with great intentions to work out, eat better, call your mom, show up on dating apps, stop feeling like crap at the office, and get that report done but you keep falling back into the same old patterns?

➡️ That’s where life coaching comes in.

Humanitarian life is insanely busy. 🤯
The deadlines never stop.
Unpredictable stuff happens every day.
And routines are so hard to put in place.

BUT…
1 hour of coaching every week can change your life in ways you don’t even know are possible.

SO…
Would you rather keep that 1 hour to answer some more emails and scroll on social, and continue to be:
🔸 running around like a chicken without a head
🔸 overwhelmed by your to-do list
🔸 scared to speak up and share your opinion
🔸 terrified to put yourself out there in the dating world
🔸 find new creative ways to procrastinate
🔸 hate your body and disappoint yourself with yet another year of blown off workout resolutions
🔸 having never-ending conflicts with colleagues and other people

OR…
Invest that hour in yourself so you can overcome your own BS, find all your power and finally be proud of how you show up for your life every day?

I can help you create anything you want. Stop missing out on your life.

DM me to book a free consult.

09/05/2025

You can’t stop other people’s messages once they’ve reached you, but you can stop your own. 😊

07/05/2025

You find the answers in your inner strength.
You will not be able to build a humanitarian life that feels good and looks exactly like what you want if you’re not willing to stop believing “you just can’t.”

05/05/2025

03/05/2025

🌊🌪️Major turbulence across the humanitarian world has been forcing us to rethink who we are on every front. At the individual level, we may feel lost and in need of serious identity clarity.

📜 The “Rewrite your self-concept note” 5-part series of the Rewired for Good podcast offers concrete ways to get crystal clear on who you are and who you want to be.

Through real aid worker stories of grief and courage, self-coaching exercises, and science-based reflections, we get granular on what it means to be you, even when the ground is shaking.

The first 3 episodes of the series are out.

‼️Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE and SHARE if you think it can help someone you care about. 😊

10/03/2025

To say that Gaza is the kind of mission that changes you is an understatement.

As from most of my frontline missions, I came back with a lot of lessons learnt, a lot of humility and a lot of devotion for this work we do. But more than anything, Gaza taught me to love more than I ever thought possible.

Being a mom and a front-line humanitarian forced you to ask yourself a lot of important questions. You don’t always find the answers. But the value is in asking the questions anyway.

Here is a selection of pictures — and a couple selfies for my kids back home — taken in March 2024, before the invasion Rafah.

I regret to say that a lot of the stuff captured in these pictures no longer exists.

1. Psychosocial support activity with kites organized by UNRWA, Khan Younis.

2. Surprisingly delicious MRE, humanitarian guesthouse, Khan Younis.

3. UNRWA Logs Base, repurposed into an IDP camp, Rafah. No longer standing.

4. Bombing and sunrise as Khan Younis is flattened, one bomb at a time, humanitarian guesthouse, Khan Younis.

5. UNRWA empty warehouse, as humanitarians struggle to import vital goods into the Strip, Rafah. Flattened. Gone.

6. The moon watching over the Gaza Strip on the first night of Ramadan, Rafah Al Mawassi.

7. You may have a comfy sleeping bag, but the drones won’t let you rest, humanitarian guesthouse, Khan Younis.

8. The entrapment of the residents of Gaza city.

9. One of Gaza’s miraculous sunsets, Rafah Al Mawassi.

10. A community soup kitchen in Rafah that no longer was less than a month after this photo was taken.

09/02/2025

If you feel stuck in your career, love life, finances, project, self-improvement efforts… it’s probably because you’re spending your energy trying to get something you don’t actually need.

Listen closely to yourself: what do you need instead?

05/02/2025

I ain’t gonna lie.

The times are messing with my 🧠 too and it’s taking a whole lot of thought work and mind management to not let it all spin out of control.

It’s time to give ourselves permission to:
😶 not have all the answers
😵‍💫 hold on to our seats during the turbulence
😬 brace for pain, loss and confusion
😔 close our eyes until we are ready to open them again.

The humanitarian sector is essential for the survival of millions across the world. We have to figure out constructive solutions for them.

And we can’t do that with our nervous systems out of whack.

So for them, for you, for all of us: if you need to take a break and go breathe for a minute without solving all the problems today, do it. It will make you more apt to solve them tomorrow.

Together.

30/01/2025

🎧 NEW PODCAST EPISODE ALERT! 🎧

Humanitarians and aid workers in general are no strangers to uncertainty and fear. But with funding suspensions, general confusion and political shifts, many aid workers are experiencing an overwhelming sense of fear, anxiety, and pre-traumatic stress.

In this episode, we explore how to:
- identify pre-traumatic stress,
- become pros at feeling bad so we can
- think clearly through the crises our sector is facing,
- and redirect our energy to best support our needs and those of the people we serve.

Link to listen in the bio.

25/01/2025

Funding gaps, stop-work orders, job cuts, policy changes, technological disruptions with artificial intelligence and other technocratic takeovers, misinformation and disinformation.

We are literally under attack.

The humanitarian and development sector is going through a watershed moment.

The new podcast episode is a pep talk and offers concrete directions on how to navigate all this uncertainty, survive the turbulence while staying true to humanitarian values and show up in a way that serves you and the sector as a whole.

10/12/2024

So I think funky eye patches may be the way to go for travel. Airline people being uncharacteristically nice to me today. I’m so confused. 🤷🏽‍♀️🧐

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