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

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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. 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.

Ontario High School Teacher Has Celebs Hanging Onto Her Every Word". HuffPost Canada. 28 October 2017 . Retrieved 31 October 2019. Forgiveness:Learn how to allow yourself time, reflection, and space to accept and let go of painful events. 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.’” a b c "Is Najwa Zebian poised to be the next Rupi Kaur?". Quill and Quire. 12 February 2018 . Retrieved 30 April 2020. 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.Once you’ve spent some time meditating on these thoughts in the Self-love room, you can move on to the room of Forgiveness. Codrea-Rado, Anna (16 October 2017). "#MeToo Floods Social Media With Stories of Harassment and Assault". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 30 April 2020. the day. We invest in other people, and we evaluate our selfworth based on how much those homes welcome us. But what 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 has become a trailblazing voice for women everywhere and was name dropped by the New York Times and CBS News among others.

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, I highly enjoyed reading and working through this book. It was helpful to visualize improvements of myself through the rooms of a house. 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.”

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 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. 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. Too often, we build our homes in other people; we rely on the validation, comfort, and approval of others. But this inevitably leaves us desperately holding on to love when we find it, and we feel abandoned if the other person leaves. You wonder why their existence is not so essential to your well-being. It's because they don't make you work hard for the attention they give you. They accept the love they think they deserve

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. Living my life as an empath without boundaries was like being a firefighter without protective gear. Constantly rushing into flames to rescue others and fight for them while leaving myself exposed to suffer severe wounds. This book has changed my life by equipping me with tools to show up for others with bravery and compassion while meeting my most basic needs for safety first. Are you projecting your authentic self (reflecting deep selfacceptance) into the world? Or are you projecting one of the 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.Surrender: Learn how to lower your defenses and give yourself space to feel and process your emotions. From the celebrated poet, speaker, and educator comes a powerful blueprint for healing by building a home within yourself.

This became the self I believed I needed to be. And that was shallow selfacceptance at its best. Convincing yourself that the self others believe is 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: Surrender:Learn how to lower your defenses and give yourself space to feel and process your emotions.

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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”: 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! A master class in self-actualization and compassion.” (Mari Andrew, New York Times best-selling author of Am I There Yet? ) In Welcome Home: A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul, celebrated speaker, author, and educator Najwa Zebian gets more vulnerable than ever before. In this self-help book, she provides a powerful blueprint for healing by building a home within yourself. This book includes true-life instances that inspired the author, techniques, and actions that can be easily got to follow (while emotionally hard to do), and poetry. Sections are divided by rooms in your “house” and look at Self-love, Clarity, Compassion, and more. In the end, she guides you into creating your own room-a a room that will serve only you.