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

Product Information

remember the foundation on which they lie—your self-acceptance and selfawareness. Not someone else’s acceptance of you or knowledge of you.

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

Forgiveness: Learn how to allow yourself time, reflection, and space to accept and let go of painful events. Surrender: Learn how to lower your defenses and give yourself space to feel and process your emotions.

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

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

With practical tools and prompts for self-understanding, she shows you how to build each room in your house, which forms the foundation for your self-worth, sense of belonging, and happiness.

Welcome Home Summary of Key Ideas and Review | Najwa Zebian Welcome Home Summary of Key Ideas and Review | Najwa Zebian

Self-acceptance at its core means knowing yourself as you are, with all your weaknesses and strengths, with all that makes you who you are. Whether you look at those things as flaws or as superpowers is in your own hands.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 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. 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. Don’t tell me what I want to hear. Tell me the truth. It may hurt, but it definitely won’t hurt more than the feeling that I was told something out of pity, not out of honesty. If you mean it, say it. If you don’t, keep your words until the right person is standing in front of you. If words are said too many times, they become cheap, and I only deserve to hear what is valuable”