About Hanan Hammadova

For most of my life, I existed in pieces.

The Palestinian piece, carrying stories of olive trees my father could not return to. The European piece, navigating institutions that taught me my father's people were uncivilised, my mother's heritage was civilised.

The professional piece, where competence requires forgetting.

The mother piece, where exhaustion wore the mask of love.

The wife piece.

The daughter piece.

The woman who knew something was catastrophically wrong but could not name what. I became extraordinarily skilled at code-switching.

I was effective at reading rooms and becoming what they needed (masking).

I translated my discomfort into productivity and called it adaptation.

I also attempted to reframe it as strength.

My body started to fail. My daughter looked at me with the clarity only children possess and named what I could not: "You're toxic, Mom."

She was right.

Not because I was cruel. Because I was absent. Present in body, vanished in spirit. So busy performing versions of myself that the actual self had nowhere to live.

I nearly lost my authenticity. I was so busy surviving that I forgot how to be. My purpose felt like a luxury I couldn't afford.

At that moment, devastated and awake, I faced the question I had been fleeing: Who am I when I stop trying to be who everyone else needs me to be?

What Happens When You Cannot Ignore What You Know:

The world gives us two options when we witness injustice:

look away or burn out trying to fix what we did not break.

Both are designed to keep us manageable.

Both split us from the thing that would actually create change: the integration of who we are with what we know.

I tried looking away.

I tried the performance of caring paired with the practice of not caring too much. I tried compartmentalising my Palestinian identity into the box marked "family matter" while living as though geopolitics were separate from the ground I walked on.

This is what splitting does. It allows us to function in systems designed to extract from us while giving nothing back.

It allows us to scroll past suffering before breakfast and perform productivity before lunch. It allows us to call this normal.

But here is what I learned: every time you silence the part of you that knows, you commit a small violence against yourself. Every time you perform palatability while people are being erased, you reinforce the very systems you claim to oppose.

The split is not sustainable.

Your body will tell you of illness.

Your relationships will tell you in distance.

Your spirit will tell you in the deadness you feel when you look in the mirror.

The Path Nobody Teaches: Integration Through Truth.

Why are you here on the planet?

After my daughter named what I could not, I had to learn what no one had taught me: how to exist whole.

Not healed, fixed, or finally acceptable.

Only Whole would suffice.

Through my transformation, I discovered three pillars that changed everything:

Deep self-awareness
Self-esteem from within
Connection to your soul's wisdom

These three pillars became my foundation.

They allowed me to hold my Palestinian heritage and my European upbringing without declaring one more legitimate.

They gave me the strength to speak Arabic without apology in spaces that expected only Czech.

To name an occupation as an occupation in professional settings that preferred the word "conflict."

They made it possible to end relationships that required my silence for their comfort.

To build new ones where my wholeness was not negotiable.

Most profoundly, they taught me that integration is not a destination but a practice.

Every day, I choose: Will I split myself for belonging, or will I risk belonging to myself first?

This is not a comfortable path.

Whole people make systems of disintegration uncomfortable.

They ask questions that shatter false peace.

They refuse to perform gratitude for conditional acceptance.

But whole people also create something the split cannot: actual change.

Because you cannot transform what you are complicit in.

You cannot build the world you long for while performing allegiance to the world you know is breaking.

What Integration Makes Possible

When you stop splitting yourself, something remarkable happens.

Not completely, but substantially.

Because you are no longer maintaining multiple performances across multiple contexts.

You are simply, complexly, irrevocably yourself.

The relationships shift. Some fall away. The right ones deepen.

Because people can finally meet the actual you rather than the version you believed they needed.

The voice emerges.

The one you have been translating, diluting, deferring.

It speaks with a clarity that surprises you, because it is true.

For me, this voice said: I will not be silent while my people are erased.

I will not compromise neutrality to maintain professional comfort.

I will not split my spirituality from my activism, my healing from my justice work, my love from my rage.

This voice built The Love Declaration.

A framework for people who refuse to choose between inner peace and outer justice.

Who understands that revolutionary love means loving yourself whole first, then extending that wholeness into community, then confronting systems that demand our fragmentation.

This voice gathers people across continents who recognise the split in themselves.

Who are exhausted from performing.

Who knows that something must change and that the change begins with refusing to abandon ourselves.

What We Build Together?

I do not offer healing divorced from justice, nor justice divorced from the spiritual work of becoming whole.

I offer integration: the painstaking, liberating practice of refusing to split yourself for systems designed to extract from you.

Through The Love Declaration, community gatherings, the messy, sacred work of showing up whole in spaces that demand our fragmentation, we can build something the split cannot:

We build relationships across differences where belonging precedes agreement.

We build communication where truth and compassion refuse to be separated.

We build solidarity that centres Palestinian liberation not as charity but as interconnected freedom.

We build communities that practice the world we ache for rather than simply theorising about it.

This is the ground-level work of integrating who you are with what you know, then extending that integration into the community, then confronting every system that requires our splitting.

You do not need to fix yourself. You need to remember

Today, I do this work because every person deserves the bravery to be authentic and to live in their flow freely.

You are allowed to make decisions guided by your intuition rather than fear.

You are permitted to say no to what diminishes you so you can say yes to what fulfils you.

Your life does not have to be complicit with practices that extract from your ability to survive.

I believe in Ubuntu: I am because we are. And I learned the hard way that this truth does not necessitate martyring yourself for others.

It means showing up whole so that your presence actually nourishes the community rather than performing service from an empty well.

You are capable of holding and understanding that your freedom and the freedom of people being oppressed across the world are inseparable. When we witness injustice and stay silent, we betray the interconnectedness we claim to honour.

As a coach and mentor, I support people in building the same three pillars that changed my life:

Begin Here!

You do not need to have everything resolved to begin.

You do not need to know how to articulate what you are feeling.

You do not need permission to trust what you know.

You can recognise the split in yourself and notice the exhaustion of performing.

Perhaps you can sense that something must change and that the change begins with refusing to abandon who you actually are.

DOWNLOAD THE LOVE DECLARATION

These are 7 practices that bridge inner awareness and outer action.

It honours Palestinian wisdom while creating space for your particular path.

It is a refusal to separate your healing from collective liberation.

This is an invitation to end the performance and risk being whole.

The world needs whole people far more than it needs 'acceptable' ones.

Your people need you to be integrated, not palatable.

You need yourself back.

Let us begin.

You do not need to fix yourself.

You need to remember

Today, I do this work because every person deserves the bravery to be authentic and to live in their flow freely.

You are allowed to make decisions guided by your intuition rather than fear.

You are permitted to say no to what diminishes you so you can say yes to what fulfils you.

Your life does not have to be complicit with practices that extract from your ability to survive.

I believe in Ubuntu: I am because we are. And I learned the hard way that this truth does not necessitate martyring yourself for others.

It means showing up whole so that your presence actually nourishes the community rather than performing service from an empty well.

As a coach and mentor, I support people in building the same three pillars that changed my life:

Deep Self-Awareness

We work on recognising your patterns before they control you.

On understanding the signals your body sends long before they become a crisis.

On witnessing yourself with compassion rather than judgment.

You just re-learn to be self-aware.

Self-Esteem from Within

Together, we build your worth from the inside out, not borrowed from external validation.

We dismantle the conditioning that taught you to earn your existence.

We practice choosing dignity over acceptance.

This includes learning the bravery of boundaries. Of saying no without guilt or elaborate justification. It is the foundation of living purposefully.

Saying no to what diminishes you in your personal life.

Saying no to injustice.

Saying no to systems that demand you look away while others suffer.

Join Community

This is the ground-level work of integrating who you are with what you know, then extending that integration into the community.

Communities are the future of humanity.

Ubuntu: 'I am because we are'

You cannot honour Ubuntu by abandoning yourself to please others or remaining silent as people are erased.

True interconnectedness requires each person to show up whole, not drained. It requires that we recognise: when one of us is oppressed, none of us is free.

Your liberation and mine are bound together.

Your transformation becomes contagious.

Communities are starting to awaken.

And it can be because of you.

Connection to Soul Wisdom

We clear the noise so you can hear what you've always known.

We honour your intuition as the language of your soul.

We learn to trust the guidance that comes from your deepest self rather than your loudest fear.

Through these pillars, you finally heal.

Your transformation becomes irreversible.

You build relationships where your truth doesn't need to be diluted for belonging.

You build lives that honour what matters to you, whether that's Palestinian liberation, environmental justice, creative expression, or simply the courage to stop performing and start being.

Workshops and Seminars

I would be happy to guide you on a path of self-discovery, connecting with your soul, and building self-esteem. It all revolves around your relationship with yourself.

Topics

Me and my thoughts
Me and my emotions
Self-worth, self-esteem, self-love
EFT for children

I open seminars for small groups of 4-8 people, where interactive discussions take place on topics that are still taboo. The main intention is to open a discussion within ourselves. It is the first step on the path to finding inner peace, which is only in our hands. In my profession, I work with adults, children, and companies.