Najwa Zebian: ...that I have always been enough

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Our guest on this episode is Najwa Zebian, whose latest book has been described as a book for anyone who has ever asked "How do I find myself?" or "How do I forgive myself?" or "How do I learn to love myself?”. The book is called, "WELCOME HOME: A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul". Najwa is a Lebanese Canadian poet, activist, author, speaker, and educator whose work has been featured in the "New York Times", "Glamour", "HuffPost", and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black.
0:14.6	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:16.2	And we've very much been looking forward to talking with our guest on this episode,
0:20.3	Najwa Zebian. She's a Lebanese Canadian poet, activist, author, speaker, and educator,
0:26.1	and her work has been featured in the New York Times, glamour, Huff Post, and a lot more.
0:30.6	And Najua's latest book has been described as a book for anyone who has ever asked,
0:36.0	How do I Find Myself? Or How do I find myself or how do I forgive myself or how do I
0:40.3	learn to love myself? The book is called Welcome Home, a guide to building a home for your soul.
0:47.3	Nashua, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for having me. How did the book,
0:53.7	Welcome Home, a Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul, come about?
0:57.7	Well, it started with my search for a home, which took up most of my life since I was a child.
1:05.4	And not really knowing that that's what I was searching for, what I knew was that there was something missing. And that
1:12.4	something that was missing was the feeling that I belonged somewhere, the feeling that I mattered
1:18.2	to someone, that someone loved me just as I am. So it began that early on in my life. And it manifested in
1:25.6	my adulthood as trying to find myself in places and
1:32.2	people and titles and, you know, job titles and just communities that I was part of.
1:41.8	And I just got to a point where I realized that I fully defined myself by who welcomed me
1:50.5	into their life.
1:51.6	I fully defined myself by how others saw me and what kind of worth they saw in me.
1:59.0	And the time that I fully understood that was when I would feel, I'd go
2:05.4	through moments where I would feel empty on the inside every time someone walked away from my life
2:10.8	or every time there was an opportunity that I really wanted and I couldn't get, I would feel that
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