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The Mindvalley Podcast

Welcome Home: 8 Steps To Building A Home For Your Soul - Najwa Zebian

The Mindvalley Podcast

Mindvalley

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Najwa Zebian is a Lebanese-Canadian activist, author, speaker, and educator who’s risen online through her insta-poetry, Tedx Talks, and interviews on Canadian news outlets. Najwa first began to write to connect with and heal her first students, a group of young refugees she found that she was also writing to heal herself. She went on to sell over 250,000 copies of her three books and recently launched a digital school, Soul Academy, and a podcast, Stories of the Soul. In this episode, you’ll learn about how Najwa's mindset shift led her to find her place in the world and help others to thrive. You’ll begin by rethinking your self-love and move on to learning how to cultivate your inner power.   Listen out for: - The inspiration behind Najwa’s ‘Welcome Home’ book. - 8 nuggets of wisdom to build a home within.  - The real definition of self-love.    ABOUT NAJWA ZEBIAN Najwa Zebian’s passion for language was evident from a  young age, as she delved into Arabic poetry and novels. When she arrived in Canada at the age of sixteen, she felt unstable and adrift in an unfamiliar place. The search for a home—what Najwa describes as a place where the soul and heart feel at peace—was central to her early years. Nevertheless, she completed her education and went on to become a teacher as well as a doctoral candidate in educational leadership. Her first students, a group of young refugees, led her back to her original passion: writing. She began to heal her sixteen-year-old self by writing to heal her students. Since self-publishing her first collection of poetry and prose in 2016, Najwa has become an inspiration to millions of people worldwide. Drawing on her own experiences of displacement, discrimination, and abuse, Najwa uses her words to encourage others to build a home within themselves; to live, love, and create fearlessly. Her new book “Welcome Home” was published in June 2021.       Bonus:                                                                          - Learn more about Najwa Zebian here 👉 https://najwazebian.com/                                                  - Subscribe to Mindvalley Membership to discover 30+ Mindvalley Quests, watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW     Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Share this with your friends on Instagram or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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On top of acknowledging and validating for myself how I was feeling, there was also an

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attached hopelessness of, there's nothing I can do about it.

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So the fact that I was so certain there was nothing I can do about it to change it just

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made me not want to feel those feelings in the first place.

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So I ripped up my journal and I said I'm never writing again.

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I am Vision Laciani, founder of Mind Dali, the School for Human Transformation.

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More listening to the Mind Dali podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers

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and thought leaders on the planet.

0:33.4

Discuss the world's most powerful ideas in personal growth for mind, body, spirit and

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work.

0:40.7

Welcome everyone to the Mind Dali podcast.

0:43.6

Our guest today is a poet, not your ordinary poet.

0:47.2

I'm not going to make you sit still and expose yourself to random beautiful poetry because

0:54.2

I know you're here for a transformation.

0:56.8

So this poet is someone that speaks on many fascinating topics.

1:02.3

But one of the key things that she speaks about is on building a home for your soul.

1:08.6

And I want to read out a quote from this poet, Najwa Zedian.

1:13.8

The biggest mistake we make is that we build our homes in other people.

1:17.1

We build those homes and we decorate them with the love and care and the respect that

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makes us feel safe at the end of the day.

1:24.2

We invest in other people and we evaluate ourselves with based on how much these homes

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welcome us.

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