Unbelievable but true - we have reached the end of Season 1 of the Humanitarian Self-Care Podcast! In today's episode we talk about love and the challenges of finding a life partner. Pauline Busson, aid-worker turned love coach helping mostly women to fall in love with themselves and thereby also find their life-partner. 

Why do we keep attracting unavailable partners? And how can limiting beliefs about ourselves and the type of relationship we want keep us back? In the conversation today we talk about the need the importance of connecting to ourselves, our values, our inner-most emotions beyond work for validation and self-worth. 

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Come join The conversation on self-care and wellbeing in our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/The-Humanitarian-Self-Care-Podcast-108479874258539/, and write me at humanitarianselfcare@posteo.org for any suggestions or feedback you might have, and if you would like to come and speak about your experience in Season 2 of the podcast. 

Disclaimer: The content of this podcast expresses my personal views and does not represent the position or views of any other individual or entities.

In today’s episode I am joined by PhD candidate Tarli Young from the University of Queensland in Australia. After 8 years and 15 countries in the aid sector, Tarli wanted to better understand the mental health issues we as aid workers face - so she went back to university.

Her research aims to increase understanding of aid worker mental health and wellbeing and to provide an intervention to decrease psychological distress and increase wellbeing, and as a result of her research she has developed a wellbeing programme tailored to the needs of aid workers using Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT). Anyone interested to be part of the piloting phase (for free) can sign up to this interesting 4-module course here: https://exp.psy.uq.edu.au/aware/.

Welcome back after a short break due to my personal constraints as I was moving duty stations so I was not able to record the last episode. I am excited to be back with a new episode where I am talking to global GBV expert Sarah Martin, a Lead Associate with the consultancy group Gender Associations. Sarah has extensive experience in research, advocacy, training and project management with international organizations. She specializes in strengthening gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response in humanitarian settings and addressing sexual exploitation and abuse in peacekeeping and humanitarian organizations. Sarah has also initiated a global peer support group for GBV aid workers, a wonderful resource to everyone in the sector. 

Find some of the resources attached in the show notes, incl. a check-list on self-care for GBV aid workers (or any aid worker), check out more on the particular issues on women's protection and empowerment podcast: https://player.fm/series/womens-protection-and-empowerment, read more about the Gender AOR here: https://gbvaor.net/, and join the GBV community of practice for peer-to-peer support via email at gbvcop@gmail.com. 

Come join The conversation on self-care and wellbeing in our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/The-Humanitarian-Self-Care-Podcast-108479874258539/, and write me at humanitarianselfcare@posteo.org  for any suggestions or feedback you might have. 

Disclaimer: The content of this podcast expresses my personal views and does not represent the position or views of any other individual or entities.