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Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
Najwa
26 episodes
5 days ago
Send us a text We think our time is endless. So we waste so much of our lives chasing what we think life “should” look like, and calling avoidance “moving on.” But you don’t move on from pain without it being dragged behind you. In this episode of Beyond Words, I’m joined by my very first guest, grief expert and bestselling author David Kessler. We talk about what grief really is, why denial can be a form of grace, and how judgment keeps us stuck in pain. We explore finding meaning—not in los...
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Send us a text We think our time is endless. So we waste so much of our lives chasing what we think life “should” look like, and calling avoidance “moving on.” But you don’t move on from pain without it being dragged behind you. In this episode of Beyond Words, I’m joined by my very first guest, grief expert and bestselling author David Kessler. We talk about what grief really is, why denial can be a form of grace, and how judgment keeps us stuck in pain. We explore finding meaning—not in los...
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Self-Improvement
Education,
Society & Culture,
Health & Fitness,
Mental Health,
Relationships
Episodes (20/26)
Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
024- How to Take Things Personally (In a Way That Finally Sets You Free)
Send us a text They knew what they were doing. They knew it would hurt you. And they did it anyway.We’re told, “Don’t take it personally. It’s not about you.” But what if that message is exactly what keeps you in cycles of betrayal, self-blame, and repeated hurt? In this episode of Beyond Words, Najwa Zebian reframes what it means to take things personally. Not as self-blame, not as shame, and not as “I must have deserved this”, but as a powerful way to validate your pain, revoke people’s ac...
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2 days ago
28 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
023- How to Be Your Own Medicine: Stop Waiting for the Person Who Hurt You to Heal You
Send us a text We often wait for the person who broke us to bring us the medicine that will heal what they broke. Their apology. Their acknowledgment. Their guilt. Their suffering. But when you give someone the power to heal you in the same way you gave them the power to break you, you place yourself in a dangerous position, because the source you’re waiting on has already proven to be a source of pain. In this episode of Beyond Words, Najwa Zebian explores what it truly means to be your own ...
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1 week ago
27 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
022- You Don’t Need a New Life. You Need a New You.
Send us a text We often believe that happiness lives in a different version of our life — a new job, a new relationship, a new body, or a new place. But real transformation doesn’t start from the outside in. It starts from the inside out. In this deeply reflective episode of Beyond Words, Najwa reminds us that the most important glow up isn’t about what the world sees, but who we become within. She explores the illusion of external validation, the beauty of integrity, and what it truly means ...
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2 weeks ago
34 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
021- How to Actually Let Go
Send us a text Letting go isn’t a single decision. It’s a slow, sacred process. In this episode of Beyond Words, Najwa explores what it really means to release someone, something, or a dream that once felt like home. You’ll learn why your struggle to let go is not a sign of weakness, but proof of how deeply you love, care, and stay loyal to what matters. Through stories, analogies, and soulful reflection, Najwa guides you through the gentle art of loosening your grip without abandoning yourse...
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3 weeks ago
37 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
020- How to Break the Habits That Are Breaking You
Send us a text We all have habits that feel harmless but quietly drain our energy and self-worth. In this episode of Beyond Words, Najwa Zebian breaks down how habits born from pain (people-pleasing, shrinking, over-explaining) keep us stuck in survival mode. Learn how to stop punishing yourself through your routines and start creating habits that honor your healing, growth, and peace. ✨ “Some of your habits aren’t neutral. They’re teaching you to abandon yourself.” 🕒 Timestamps 00:00 — Openi...
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1 month ago
37 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
019- How to Stop People Pleasing
Send us a text In this episode of Beyond Words, we’re diving deep into one of the most exhausting, identity-shaping patterns so many of us carry: people pleasing. If you've spent your life monitoring everyone’s emotions… If you jump at the first sign of someone being upset… If your peace depends on whether everyone around you is okay… This episode is going to hit home. Together, we explore: Why people pleasers often give the most to those who value them the leastHow childhood conditioning tra...
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1 month ago
35 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
018- How to Choose Yourself After Someone Discards You
Send us a text When someone stops choosing you, it can feel like being thrown away. In this heartfelt episode, Najwa explores the pain of being discarded, the illusion of lost worth, and the deep healing that begins when you finally choose yourself. Timestamps / Chapters 00:00 – The Voice That Says “Choose Yourself” The inner conflict between fear and truth — the voice that tells you to stay vs. the one that calls you home to yourself. 01:14 – The Pain of Being Discarded The shock, confusio...
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1 month ago
42 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
017- How to Let Them Be Who They Want to Be
Send us a text When you’re so used to overexplaining, overgiving, and overextending yourself — choosing silence can feel impossible. But what if silence is where your real power begins? In this episode, Najwa explores what it means to stop trying to change people, to stop rescuing them from who they’ve chosen to be, and to finally let your peace speak louder than your pain. Through powerful storytelling, gentle truth, and poetic reflection, Najwa helps you understand: Why you struggle to acce...
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1 month ago
44 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
016- Let Them Judge You
Send us a text If you’ve spent years in defense mode, trying to prove your goodness to people committed to misunderstanding you, this episode is for you. I share personal stories (from school days in Lebanon to adult life) about how judgment shaped my self-image, and the moment I chose to stop buying what judgment was selling. You’ll learn how conditioning fuels people-pleasing, why “being the good one” often keeps you stuck, and how to reclaim your energy, boundaries, and peace. In this epis...
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1 month ago
36 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
015- Gaslighting Explained: How to Recognize It, Escape It, and Heal
Send us a text You’re not crazy — you were conditioned to believe you are. In this powerful episode of Beyond Words, Najwa Zebian breaks down one of the most insidious forms of emotional abuse: gaslighting. From subtle lies to complete distortion of your reality, Najwa helps you understand what’s really happening when someone tries to make you doubt your truth. She unpacks how gaslighters erase your perception of reality, why they do it, and what makes empaths, nurturers, and people-ple...
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2 months ago
46 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
014- Crash Out, Not In. Stop Being the Bigger Person.
Send us a text We’re taught to keep the peace, rise above, and “be the bigger person.” But what if constantly being “bigger” is quietly breaking you? In this episode, Najwa shares a bold reframe: if you must choose between crashing out and crashing in, don’t let the crash happen inside you. Suppressed truths corrode self-esteem, confidence, and your ability to choose the right people. Through vivid metaphors (arrows, tightropes, and the crash-out vs. crash-in analogy), Najwa names the double ...
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2 months ago
30 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
013- Stop Explaining Yourself to the Wrong People
Send us a text There’s a quiet kind of exhaustion that comes from constantly trying to make yourself understood by people who are committed to misunderstanding you. You explain, clarify, defend, and prove — not because you’re weak, but because you ache to be heard. In this episode of Beyond Words, Najwa unpacks why explaining yourself to the wrong people erodes your dignity, pulls you out of character, and keeps you anchored in environments that dim your light. She explores the difference bet...
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2 months ago
31 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
012- Let Them Keep What They Took from You
Send us a text In this deeply resonant episode of Beyond Words, Najwa explores the painful but liberating truth of betrayal and abandonment. What happens when you’ve invested your heart, time, and soul into someone, only to have them walk away with everything you gave? Najwa reframes this heartbreak with a radical act of self-love: let them keep what they took, because you are the well. Through storytelling, raw truth, and her signature poetic wisdom, she guides you to reclaim your power, sto...
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2 months ago
31 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
011- Stop Mistaking Being Used for Being Loved
Send us a text In this episode of Beyond Words, I explore one of the most painful truths: when someone loves you not for who you are, but for what you give. Together, we’ll unpack how childhood conditioning makes us vulnerable to these patterns, how to tell if you’re surrounded by takers or builders, and how to begin redirecting your energy back to yourself. This conversation will help you break free from cycles of being used, reclaim your worth, and re-learn that you are deserving of love si...
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3 months ago
41 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
010- Detachment: The Key to Your Freedom
Send us a text In this deeply transformative episode of Beyond Words, Najwa Zebian explores the true meaning of detachment—not as a rejection of love or connection, but as the path to freedom from unsafe, inconsistent, and harmful bonds. You’ll learn why detaching from the wrong people is the greatest act of self-liberation, and how to build strong, safe attachments that honor your authenticity. Through powerful imagery, heartfelt reflection, and excerpts from her own writing, Najwa guides yo...
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3 months ago
30 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
009- When Someone Walks Away in a Hurtful Way
Send us a text When someone walks away from you in the most painful and blindsiding way—through betrayal, broken promises, or abandonment—it can feel like your whole world collapses. In this episode of Beyond Words, Najwa gently guides you through the shock, denial, and grief of endings you didn’t choose, and shows you how to begin reclaiming yourself piece by piece. Through powerful metaphors and deeply human reflections, Najwa reminds you that someone’s choice to leave says nothing about yo...
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3 months ago
36 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
008- The Power of Words
Send us a text Words can lift us to heights we never thought possible, or they can shatter us into pieces we never imagined. In this episode of Beyond Words, Najwa Zebian explores the immense power of language—how it shapes our identity, fuels our growth, or erodes our spirit. Through vivid analogies of mirrors and walls, safe havens and storms, band-aids and knives, Najwa reveals how the words we give and receive can either nurture or destroy us. This episode is a reminder to choose words wi...
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3 months ago
38 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
007- How to Make Someone Realize They’re Losing You
Send us a text In this deeply reflective episode of Beyond Words, Najwa explores the longing so many of us feel when someone we love starts slipping away. What do we do when our instinct is to try harder only to lose ourselves in the process? Najwa unpacks the myths about “being the prize,” why begging for recognition only hurts us more, and how true courage sometimes looks like letting go, step by step. Through personal reflections, hard truths, and poetic wisdom, she reminds us: your value ...
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3 months ago
33 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
006- Stop Wanting the Love of Someone Who Doesn't Want You
Send us a text So many of us carry the belief that we have to earn love. That if we change who we are, give more of ourselves, or abandon our own needs, then maybe, just maybe, someone will finally choose us. But true love isn’t an audition. In this powerful episode of Beyond Words, we explore what it means to stop chasing after the bare minimum. Together, we’ll look at why we cling to those who only offer us crumbs of attention, and how to shift toward a love that meets us where we are:...
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4 months ago
31 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
005- How to Move On After Betrayal
Send us a text What do you do when the life you were building with someone turns out to be an illusion? When the love you believed in crumbles in an instant. And all that’s left is dust? This episode is for the moments after the betrayal. For when your heart is shattered but you're being told to "just move on." For when you’re still carrying the weight of dreams that will never happen. And wondering why you're the one left with all the pain. Najwa walks you through the reality of ...
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4 months ago
44 minutes

Beyond Words with Najwa Zebian
Send us a text We think our time is endless. So we waste so much of our lives chasing what we think life “should” look like, and calling avoidance “moving on.” But you don’t move on from pain without it being dragged behind you. In this episode of Beyond Words, I’m joined by my very first guest, grief expert and bestselling author David Kessler. We talk about what grief really is, why denial can be a form of grace, and how judgment keeps us stuck in pain. We explore finding meaning—not in los...