Book promotion of “Kateta Usne” held in Kragujevac
at the House of Đura Jakšić on January 24, 2024.
About Željka’s personal story, journey through authenticity, the book’s title, deeper meaning, occasion, and message—about a hundred people in three cities have listened so far. The book has reached the hands of over 200 readers eager for inspiration and connection with verses.
The promotion has taken place at the National Library in Bor and the House of Đura Jakšić in Belgrade, with the next appearance planned for Negotin.
Confessional lyrics of a hypersensitive soul. Through romantic partnerships, friendships, and relationships with parents, the poetess explores her inner world, her psychological causes and reasons; she gets to know herself and confronts traumatic experiences emerging from her subconscious through relationships with others. Romance and hypersensitivity, in this case, pose an obstacle to recognizing a disrupted relationship with oneself and weak personal boundaries, so the poetess lives in an illusion of reality that becomes more real through life circumstances but not less painful.
The collection of poems is intended as a reminder and inspiration for personal growth and development, as a motivation to explore psychological models of affective attachment, and as educational content about the importance of prenatal psychology in the child’s personality development and later choice of a partner, as well as the impact of early traumas on interpersonal relationships and the perception of the world and reality.
Each poem is imbued with a spiritual note and an invitation to seek meaning in deeper and greater service to God and people. With motifs of death, transience, suffering, and passionate love relationships, the poetess invites us to surrender our emotional dramas to God and to turn to our life’s purpose—to serve Creation through talents and skills as a form of expression and thus feel fulfillment, joy, and peace.
In her work, she combines spirituality and conventional medicine, and her works exude altruism. She inspires us to discard dysfunctional behavior patterns and open our hearts to love.
