b>From the celebrated poet, speaker, and educator comes a powerful blueprint for healing by building a home within yourself.

“A master class in self-actualization and compassion.”—Mari Andrew, New York Times bestselling author of Am I There Yet?

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.

Every human deserves their own home. Written with her trademark power, candor, and warmth, Welcome Home is an answer to the pain we all experience when we don't feel at peace with ourselves. I realized the biggest reason why I usually dislike self-help books is that I hate their voice; some self-help books really have this imposing, overly encouraging (or sometimes looking down) tone which makes me just want to stop reading and permanently use it as my laptop stand. I did not detect that kind of tone when I was reading this one. When I read this I felt heard, calm and understood, and that kept me reading on. The author gives you so many tools throughout the book to help you with building each of these rooms. There are pieces of poetry to engage and enlighten, meditations, journal prompts, and more! 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’ll get more detailed in my dec 2021 wrap up, but idk how I feel about it. I thought there were some true gems of wisdom in this book but the author went in circles for a lot of the book, repeating the same things over and over.

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

Before you give love to someone in any form, ask yourself, Is my intention to truly love this person? Or is it to receive validation that my love is worth it? The kind you want to desecrate with highlighter—but no, it’s no kind of desecration to embrace the words that speak most deeply to you, that find roost in your heart-marrow and whisper that you can dare to be happier and healthier than you previously knew how to be.

Part of respecting others is respecting their boundaries. Part of respecting yourself is building your own boundaries. A master class in self-actualization and compassion.”—Mari Andrew, New York Times bestselling author of Am I There Yet? 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.

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

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. Building your home inside yourself - and never experiencing inner homelessness again - begins here. If you’ve learned to self-hate, that habit needs to be broken. You can’t hate yourself and love yourself at the same time. You can do them both in one day, but you can’t do them both at the same time.

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?? 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.

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

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”: 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”:Love is a power that's inside of you. When you give your love to someone else, you shouldn't feel empty. The key is to first use it to strengthen yourself; then you’ll have more, even infinite, love to direct outward.