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

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Rodriguez, Jeremiah (28 October 2017). "Ontario High School Teacher Has Celebs Hanging Onto Her Every Word". HuffPost Canada . Retrieved 19 November 2019. 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. Also want to say that it isn’t like I agree with every idea in the book. I found some parts repetitive but I don’t really mind. I did sift it and adjust it before I applied only some of it to myself that works and is relevant. And I think it is supposed to be like that.

Zebian, Najwa (2 October 2018). The Nectar of Pain. Andrews McMeel Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4494-9988-4. 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. Chances are, you’d do whatever you could to make them feel better. You’d sit them down and find a painkiller for their headache. You’d ask them about their day at work. You’d tell them that it’s going to be alright. You’d do these things because you love them.Little did I know that by helping them heal, I was healing my eight-yearold self who was told to stay behind. I was healing my sixteen-year-old self Najwa Zebian: The Lebanese poet speaking up about the #MeToo movement". The National. 8 January 2018 . Retrieved 7 November 2019. 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”:

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. Najwa goes into detail in the book on how to do this by telling the reader that it’s important to first create your rooms one at a time. They are the following six items: From the celebrated poet, speaker, and educator comes Welcome Home, a powerful blueprint for building a strong foundation of self-worth, belonging, and happiness.

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The biggest mistake we make is that we build our homes in other people. We build those homes and we decorate them with the love and care and respect that makes us feel safe at the end of the day. We invest in other people, and we evaluate our self-worth based on how much those homes welcome us. But what many don’t realize is that when you build your home in other people, you give them the power to make you homeless. When those people walk away, those homes walk away with them, and all of a sudden, we feel empty because everything that we had within us, we put into them. We trusted someone else with pieces of us. The emptiness we feel doesn’t mean we have nothing to give, or that we have nothing within us. It’s just that we built our home in the wrong place.” I was supposed to read this as a reviewer but I found that I was called to this book I needed to create my own home so I became engrossed in this book. I was more than reviewing, I was growing. So is there some bias in this review? Sure. But it did honestly help me on a personal level.

Zebian completed her Bachelor of Science in Biology in 2010, a Bachelor of Education in General Science and Biology in 2012, and a Master of Education in Curriculum Studies in 2013, all at The University of Western Ontario. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Educational Leadership at the University of Western Ontario. [12] Zebian's first teaching assignment at UWO was to teach writing to a group of young Libyan refugees. Zebian saw her 16-year-old self in her students and found the courage to resume her writing journey. [3] Career [ edit ] #MeToo Movement Protest 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. Forgiveness: Learn how to allow yourself time, reflection, and space to accept and let go of painful events.a b "Najwa Zebian: Healing through the power of words". The Gazette • Western University's Student Newspaper. 9 January 2019 . Retrieved 7 November 2019. Are you projecting your authentic self (reflecting deep selfacceptance) into the world? Or are you projecting one of the Since self-publishing her first collection of poetry and prose in 2016, Najwa has become an inspiration to millions of people worldwide. a b "Is Najwa Zebian poised to be the next Rupi Kaur?". Quill and Quire. 12 February 2018 . Retrieved 7 November 2019.