Zebian was born in Lebanon and moved to Canada in 2006 at the age of sixteen due to the 2006 Lebanon War. She currently lives in Ontario, Canada. [10] [11]

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”: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 I think this is a great self-help book. I'd say it's more geared towards women but I wouldn't say those of any gender range wouldn't be able to connect to the principles. As a society, we need to start with ourselves and create our own homes. Only then can we change as a society for the better, Hawksley, Rupert (1 November 2018). "Najwa Zebian: writing was genuinely my only way of dealing with the world". The National . Retrieved 1 November 2019. The powerful metaphor of home provides a structure foryou to customize your journey topersonal transformation asNajwaZebian shares her own experiences in building a home within herself, andshows you how to construct the following “rooms”: remember the foundation on which they lie—your self-acceptance and selfawareness. Not someone else’s acceptance of you or knowledge of you.

Forgiveness:Learn how to allow yourself time, reflection, and space to accept and let go of painful events. A master class in self-actualization and compassion.”—Mari Andrew, New York Times bestselling author of Am I There Yet? 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 I highly enjoyed reading and working through this book. It was helpful to visualize improvements of myself through the rooms of a house.

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the day. We invest in other people, and we evaluate our selfworth based on how much those homes welcome us. But what

Once you’ve spent some time meditating on these thoughts in the Self-love room, you can move on to the room of Forgiveness.Dundas, Deborah (18 April 2019). "Najwa Zebian on how poetry helps her define home". The Toronto Star . Retrieved 21 October 2019. 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! 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?? Beitollahi, Yasamin (12 May 2016). "Millennials Paving The Way: Najwa Zebian, Author of "Mind Platter" ". HuffPost . Retrieved 7 November 2019.