Welcome Home: A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul

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Najwa Zebian is a Lebanese-Canadian author, speaker, and educator. Her passion for language was evident from a young age, as she delved into Arabic poetry and novels. The world tells us to be authentic, but Najwa Zebian teaches us how to be authentic. This book is a master class in self-actualization and compassion. For anyone who has ever asked ‘How do I find myself?’ or ‘How do I forgive myself?’ or ‘How do I learn to love myself?’ Najwa has your answers. She’s written us a lovely guide that teaches us how to find home within ourselves—what a gift.” — New York Times bestselling author Mari Andrew Codrea-Rado, Anna (16 October 2017). "#MeToo Floods Social Media With Stories of Harassment and Assault". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 30 April 2020. I’m a hairstylist, which feels like being a therapist most days, as well as a single mother who has been entangled with not one but two narcissistic partners since my divorce. I never wanted to turn off my vulnerabilities but never knew how to protect them, hold my own pain, show myself compassion, or give myself acceptance and a home for my soul.

Zebian, Najwa (5 March 2019). Sparks of Phoenix. Andrews McMeel Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5248-5272-6. The powerful metaphor of home provides a structure for you to customize your journey to personal transformation as Najwa Zebian shares her own experiences in building a home within herself and shows you how to construct the following “rooms”:Self-love means being empathetic toward yourself. It's a skill that involves treating yourself with the same kindness and understanding you show others rather than defining yourself by the external love you receive or want. Remember, you're here to build a home within yourself. From the celebrated poet, speaker, and educator comes a powerful blueprint for healing by building a home within yourself. In her debut book of inspiration, poet Najwa Zebian shares her revolutionary concept of home–the place of safety where you can embrace your vulnerability and discover your self-worth. It’s the place where your soul feels like it belongs, where you are loved for who you are. Too many of us build our homes in other people in the hope that they will deem us worthy of being welcomed inside, and then we feel abandoned and empty when those people leave. Building your home inside yourself–and never experiencing inner homelessness again–begins here. In Welcome Home, Zebian shares her personal story for the first time, powerfully weaving memoir, poetry, and deeply resonant teachings into her storytelling, from leaving Lebanon at sixteen, to coming of age as a young Muslim woman in Canada, to building a new identity for herself as she learned to speak her truth. After the profound alienations she experienced, she learned to build a stable foundation inside herself, an identity independent of cultural expectations and the influence of others. The powerful metaphor of home provides a structure for personal transformation as she shows you how to construct the following rooms: Self-Love, Forgiveness, Compassion, Clarity, Surrender, and The Dream Garden. With practical tools and prompts for self-understanding, she shows you how to build each room in your house, which form a firm basis for your self-worth, sense of belonging, and happiness. Welcome Home: A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul by Najwa Zebian – eBook Details The search for a home—what Najwa describes as a place where the soul and heart feel at peace—was central to her early years. When she arrived in Canada at the age of sixteen, she felt unstable and adrift in an unfamiliar place. I'd round it down from a 2.5, not that it'd a bad self-help book but it's really a combination of it not being my prefered writing style and me not finding the content that relatable. I would have ate this stuff up a few months ago but being in a better headspace now, it felt unnecessary. every moment we live is connected to all the other moments. Some moments we live now are connected to moments ten or twenty years from now. And we don’t see the connection until that future moment happens. And it’s kind of like an ah-ha moment when you say, ‘Now I understand why that moment in the past happened.’”

Welcome Home by Najwa Zebian is a self-help guide for building home within yourself. By doing this, you will always have a home no matter where you go!

Now imagine that it’s you who’s going through that suffering. Would you be as kind and patient with yourself as with your friend? If your answer is no, then you need to work on the first room in the house: self-love. Once you’ve spent some time meditating on these thoughts in the Self-love room, you can move on to the room of Forgiveness. The powerful metaphor of home provides a structure for you to customize your journey to personal transformation as Najwa Zebian shares her own experiences in building a home within herself, and shows you how to construct the following “rooms”:

This became the self I believed I needed to be. And that was shallow selfacceptance at its best. Convincing yourself that the self others believe isNajwa has become a trailblazing voice for women everywhere and was name dropped by the New York Times and CBS News among others.