this book found me when I needed it most. your 30s tend to be a lot of self discovery and diving deep into realizing why you are the way you are. your wants, your needs, your desires, what gets your out of bed in the morning. it is also a time for transitioning into a different part of your life, a part that may be scary when you still feel like you’re 22. a b "Najwa Zebian: Healing through the power of words". The Gazette • Western University's Student Newspaper. 9 January 2019 . Retrieved 7 November 2019.

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. I highly enjoyed reading and working through this book. It was helpful to visualize improvements of myself through the rooms of a house. 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.a b c "Poet Najwa Zebian rises again with Sparks of Phoenix". Quill and Quire. 8 April 2019 . Retrieved 30 April 2020. Zebian completed her Bachelor of Science in Biology in 2010, a Bachelor of Education in General Science and Biology in 2012, and a Master of Education in Curriculum Studies in 2013, all at The University of Western Ontario. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Educational Leadership at the University of Western Ontario. [12] Zebian's first teaching assignment at UWO was to teach writing to a group of young Libyan refugees. Zebian saw her 16-year-old self in her students and found the courage to resume her writing journey. [3] Career [ edit ] #MeToo Movement Protest Ontario High School Teacher Has Celebs Hanging Onto Her Every Word". HuffPost Canada. 28 October 2017 . Retrieved 31 October 2019. Najwa Zebian is a Lebanese-Canadian author, speaker, and educator. Her passion for language was evident from a young age, as she delved into Arabic poetry and novels.

Picture someone you love. It can be a friend, a partner, a family member – anyone you care for deeply. Now imagine them coming to you with a problem. Maybe they have a bad headache, or they’re stressed out at work. Or maybe they’re going through a tough breakup and need someone to talk to. What would you say to them? 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 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.

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If you sometimes feel lost, helpless, or broken, you’re not alone. What you need – what we all need – is a home. Not a house, a home: a place where you feel safe, seen, and loved. 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. 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 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”: Personally I think anyone would benefit from reading the book, but anxious, overthinking, low-self esteem young women would benefit most, I guess. (If that ain’t me) Chances are, you’d do whatever you could to make them feel better. You’d sit them down and find a painkiller for their headache. You’d ask them about their day at work. You’d tell them that it’s going to be alright. You’d do these things because you love them.

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From the celebrated poet, speaker, and educator comes a powerful blueprint for healing by building a home within yourself. I was supposed to read this as a reviewer but I found that I was called to this book I needed to create my own home so I became engrossed in this book. I was more than reviewing, I was growing. So is there some bias in this review? Sure. But it did honestly help me on a personal level. 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 This Blink will teach you how to build a home within yourself. You’ll discover and furnish all the different rooms of the home – each with a specific purpose – through a unique set of tools that’ll help you be comfortable and satisfied with who you are and what you do. the day. We invest in other people, and we evaluate our selfworth based on how much those homes welcome us. But what

Compassion: Discover the three different types of compassion and learn how you can let people in while maintaining boundaries. Are you projecting your authentic self (reflecting deep selfacceptance) into the world? Or are you projecting one of the And you wonder why they're the most sensitive people, the most caring people, why they are willing to give so much of themselves with no expectation in return. Once you’ve spent some time meditating on these thoughts in the Self-love room, you can move on to the room of Forgiveness.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. Now imagine that it’s you who’s going through that suffering. Would you be as kind and patient with yourself as with your friend? If your answer is no, then you need to work on the first room in the house: self-love. Beitollahi, Yasamin (12 May 2016). "Millennials Paving The Way: Najwa Zebian, Author of "Mind Platter" ". HuffPost . Retrieved 7 November 2019. 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: