Najwa Zebian

From the celebrated poet, speaker, and educator Najwa Zebian comes a powerful approach to healing focused on building a home within yourself. In her debut book in the self-development space, poet Najwa Zebian shares her revolutionary concept of home to guide readers to embrace their vulnerability, discover their self-worth, and build their own strong foundations from the ground up. In Welcome Home, Najwa shares her own personal story for the first time, powerfully weaving memoir, poetry, and deeply resonant teachings, from leaving war-torn Lebanon for Canada at sixteen, to coming of age as a young Muslim woman in Canada, to sexual harassment that left her alienated from her community, to building a new identity for herself as she learned to speak her truth. She teaches that home is not a physical place, but instead where your soul feels like it belongs, where you are loved for who you are. Every human deserves to own a home within themselves, and Najwa guides you in building this home. She begins by showing how to divide your house into the following rooms: Compassion, Self-Love, Guilt, Forgiveness, Silence, Sadness, Happiness, Confusion, Vulnerability, and Anger. And then, with stories and practical advice, she shows you how to build each room. Welcome Home is ultimately a guide to building that space inside yourself rather than looking outside yourself for that sense of safety and worth. Written with Najwa's trademark power, candor, and warmth, Welcome Home offers a universal approach to healing and solace for those navigating heartbreak, identity, and mental health challenges.

A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul

Welcome Home

Reflecting the world around you keeps you in conflict with yourself.

Self-love is loving yourself exactly as you’d love the person you love the most - that love actually feels like love and looks like meeting your own needs.

I may not have completed building my own home yet, but I will not beg anyone to welcome me into their home in the meantime.

Empathy requires you to feel with, not for, the other person. 

Getting stuck in being angry or upset with someone over them hurting you doesn't bring you any peace at all.

If you master the art of intentionally listening to yourself, you automatically master the art of intentional silence with others. You will also no longer hide behind silence when you want to speak up for yourself. In other words, you choose silence instead of allowing silence to be forced upon you.

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