The One About Radical Acceptance, Authentic Love and the Agitation of Change with Najwa Zebian

The Papaya Podcast

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Najwa is such a powerful writer that even if you don’t follow her, you’ve likely read, shared, or saved her work before. Her belief is that we can heal through words, and you feel that when you read hers. Today she joins us to share a bit about her story, her new book “The Only Constant”, opens up about change and our resistance to it, even though - it is a guarantee.

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0:00.0	Hi friends and welcome to the Papaya podcast. I'm your hostess trying
0:08.8	her mostess Sarah Nicole and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that.
0:18.0	So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real because we are all in this digital space together.
0:29.0	I'm so excited.
0:31.0	So many people don't know this, but we followed each other for for so many years and we actually only live an hour and a half apart we've never officially met never actually sat down and had a conversation before
0:38.8	So this is a major major treat for me your work is some of my favorite written work that I've ever
0:46.0	found like I mean I there was a time when poetry on social media was like everyone's obsession but there were so few pages that
0:56.0	would actually create impact in my life and yours was one of them you just have
0:59.7	such a beautiful way with words But introduce yourself and let everybody know who you are if they don't already follow.
1:06.8	First, thank you so much for your very kind words. It means a lot because I look up to you. You inspire me so much since the day that I came across your work.
1:16.0	And yeah, I'm Nézouis Abien, I'm a writer.
1:21.0	Usually the first word I use actually is human because I think that's what, that's why I became a writer really is to just put words to my thoughts and feelings and I've always struggled with feeling like I belong.
1:37.7	I've always felt like I was in search of a place where I feel like I'm fully and wholly welcome as I am and that's what gave birth to my
1:48.0	writings. It was just a cry for help and for understanding. So, you know, what started as a way to give voice to myself and others turned into this and I just
2:02.0	published my sixth book, so that's why I am. I think the title of this book might be my favorite one of yours yet and just the topic of it. Let's talk about it, the only constant, where share with me a little bit about
2:18.1	why that title and what this book really dives into. So I decided on the title, The Only Constant,
2:25.4	because at the time that I was supposed
2:27.9	to be writing this book, I was going through
2:30.4	two major transitions in my life.
2:32.4	The first one was I was almost done school. I was about to
2:36.4	graduate with a doctorate which to me that whole journey of going after titles and another degree and another degree and another
2:46.1	degree was to just prove my worth mostly to my parents and then at one point it
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