Book Promotion of Kateta Usne by Željka Zdravković Held in Negotin
at the Dositej Novaković Library on February 13 at 6 PM
Over a hundred people in four cities listened to Željka’s personal story, her journey through authenticity, the book’s title, its deeper meaning, the occasion, and the message. The book has reached the hands of over 300 readers eager for inspiration and connection with the verses.
Confessional Lyricism of a Hypersensitive Soul
Through romantic partnerships, friendships, and her relationship with her parents, the poet delves into her inner world, exploring her psychological causes and reasons; she gets to know herself and confronts traumatic experiences that emerge from her subconscious through relationships with others. In this context, romanticism and hypersensitivity represent obstacles to understanding her disrupted self-relationship and weak personal boundaries. Thus, the poet lives in an illusion of reality, which, through life circumstances, becomes clearer and more real, but no less painful.
This poetry collection is intended as a reminder and inspiration for personal growth and development, as a motivation to understand psychological models of affective attachment, and as educational content on the significance of prenatal psychology on the child’s personality development and later partner choices, as well as the impact of early traumas on interpersonal relationships and perceptions of the world and reality.
Each poem is imbued with a spiritual note and a call to seek meaning in deeper and greater service to God and people. With themes of death, transience, suffering, and passionate love relationships, the poet invites us to surrender our emotional dramas to God and turn to our life purpose – to serve Creation through our talents and skills as a form of expression, and in doing so, feel fulfillment, joy, and peace.
In her work, she combines spirituality and conventional medicine, and her works exude altruism. She inspires us to abandon dysfunctional behavior patterns and open our hearts to love.
