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

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I'm on a mission to empower people to build a home within themselves; to live, love, and create fearlessly. If someone chooses to take advantage of your vulnerability and not honor the promise that they made to keep a safe space for your vulnerability, that’s on them. It’s not on you. And it doesn’t mean you are powerless. Your power is like a well that never runs out of water. People may drink from it. People may take way too much at a time. But you are the source of that power. Najwa's strengths lies in her ability to morph her pain into insight that gets voiced out in a way that resonates with people.

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Instead of punishing yourself for feeling angry, ask yourself What is this anger trying to tell me? Is it trying to tell me that my boundaries are being violated? Is it trying to tell me that I’m being silenced? Is it trying to tell me that I should actually say no? 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.’” 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: I sometimes wonder what the next step for self-help books is. When you feel at peace with yourself, and then what? I can't help but imagine that having your "home" properly developed implies a sense of finality at a certain point but what's after that? Are you just supposed to be fine by yourself now? Is there a logical next step in a self-discovery journey?The mistake most of us make is that we build our homes in other people in the hope that they will deem us worthy of being welcomed inside. We feel so abandoned and empty when people leave, because we’ve invested so much of ourselves in them.” 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. I like that she’s not just chanting in your ears to love yourself. Although it is mostly about self-love and the understanding/acceptance of one’s self, she presented it as the state of being at home with yourself/building a home within yourself and I really like that idea. I thought I would be bored and get too skeptical (as I usually do with self-help books) and eventually give up on the book but surprisingly I finished it. Some concepts in the book, though might be fairly familiar to others, were somehow foreign to me and I can say that I was surprised I didn’t think of things in this way my whole life. There were times when I was just reading nonchalantly and some sentences just sent tears to my eyes like… bro… that is so true?? Whatever your brain is looking for, your eyes will see. If you are looking for the positive, you’ll see it. And if you’re looking for the negative, you’ll see it. It’s a matter of what you choose to see. I am a big fan of Najwa Zebian. For those of you who do not know her, she is a Lebanese Canadian author, educator, and speaker.

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Welcome Home is an answer to the pain we all experience when we don’t feel at peace with ourselves. Every human deserves their own home. And Welcome Home provides the life-changing tools for building that inner space of healing and solace.

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Zebian’s gentle and honest words hold the reader in an environment of realness and encouragement. Meeting us where we are, she equips us with tools and exercises that help us step into the role of architect. With her interwoven poetry and stories, she shows us her heart—and keeps us connected to our own.” — Mindful anyway, it’s a very good book about coming home to yourself and making peace with what has happened and surrendering control of the future. I was really intrigued by the title when I saw this book. And the start of the book did give me something new to dwell on; however, after a few chapters, the book became very repetitive and she was adding in the findings of other books and incorporating her life lessons to make a link somehow which didn't feel very authentic. 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.

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

Each chapter breaks down a room in your soul's house starting with the Foundation. Each area has pillars or themes and rules of what you want that room to be. Each pillar has questions to help you sort through your own emotions. But Zebian doesn't leave you to do it on your own: she leads by example sharing her life and how she made these rooms in her home. it took me a long time to finish this book and i have very very very mixed feeling. were there is a beautiful and genuine good story, i feel like the essence of this book was a bit wobbly. this is a non-fictional story with a hit of stories from the live of najwa.I have a hard time putting into words the power that this book carries. Najwa Zebian has taken the word “home” and has given it new meaning - one that I never thought of before, and one that I will carry forward. don't invest your feelings in things. Don't invest them in people. Don't be good, considerate, honest, generous, and compassionate to others because you are investing in them as people, meaning because you expect something in return. If you do, you will be, and most likely you already have been, brought to deep disappointment. Be good to people because you are investing in goodness, consideration, honesty, generosity, and compassion, because those qualities have never failed to be rewarding.” 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 remember the foundation on which they lie—your self-acceptance and selfawareness. Not someone else’s acceptance of you or knowledge of you.

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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.it took me almost five months to read it & I basically skimmed the last 20 % of the book bc I just wanted to be over with it. In Welcome Home, Zebian shares her 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. 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.