Welcome home

From celebrated poet, speaker, and educator Najwa Zebian, Welcome Home is a powerful read that points the way to building an inner home on a solid foundation of self-love, belonging, and happiness.

Everyone has the right to a home. It doesn't exist outside of you; it's within you. You are the architect, the builder, and the inhabitant of this refuge. Many project it onto others, hoping to receive affection and acceptance. But when those people decide to leave, they take your security with them, and you feel abandoned and empty for having given so much of yourself to this endeavor. To find your worth and self-love, you need to build a space of serenity and healing within yourself.

In Welcome Home , poet Najwa Zebian tells her story, weaving poetry, memories, and profound life lessons into her engaging writing. Having experienced intense moments of exclusion, trauma, and anguish, the author learned to build solid foundations within herself and develop a personality free from sociocultural expectations and the influence of others. From Najwa's departure from Lebanon at 16 to her growth as a young Muslim woman in Canada, you'll follow Zebian's struggle for identity and truth.

Using objective teachings and tools for self-knowledge, in Welcome Home you will learn about the power of taking control of building a personal space within yourself. Regardless of your past, how helpless you feel, or how many times you've pleaded for someone's love, the formation of your home begins here and now.

Building your inner home, therefore, proves not only possible but essential to achieving peace and strength. Najwa provides a framework for the reader to build their home and its specific rooms for each feeling needed at the moment—self-love, forgiveness, compassion, clarity, surrender, and a Garden of Dreams—but leaves it open for the reader to ponder and customize their construction to their life experience.

With powerful and sensitive writing—the author's trademark—and a blurb written by architect and writer Joice Berth, Welcome Home is a response to the pain and anguish that everyone experiences when they don't feel at peace with themselves.