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It’s Personal

Novel

A Family Secret, Heartbreak and Adventures in Spiritual Awakening during the Pandemic

About

In the spring of 2020 the first-person narrator finds himself in an emotional hole – his partner has left him six times in a row. He is tormented by nightmares, senseless scenes that begin to haunt him even during the day and are undoubtedly connected to his childhood. Friends nod at his condition and everyone has their own suggestion for a miraculous solution: from walking on embers to ten days of kneeling with Buddhists and shamanic rituals to walking the Camino. The narrator rejects everything with the disdain of a skeptic, but when the countries go into Covid lock-down and he is stuck at home, he realizes that he has to do something, otherwise he will go crazy. He writes down the proposals on a sheet of paper and decides to carry out all of them, one by one. He embarks on a journey within pandemic times, while also traveling to his own childhood to get to the source of strange memories and his relationships, to the bottom of the mysteries of the heart.

Methods

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The respectful skeptic wrote the following tips on a piece of paper to improve his well-being and then tackled them in this order:

Childhood

But he always knew that the above methods would not be enough, he would have to return to his childhood. Sometimes it is easier to do everything possible than to visit the small apartment in his hometown again and the mother and grandmother who are waiting in it.

He has already tried twice in his novels: in the novel King of Rattling Spirits he returned to the twelfth year of his life, and in the novel Childhood to the fifth year of his existence.

They say that the third time’s the charm. How I would like to see this Charm, whoever that is, go back to my childhood instead of me.

Relationships

Finally, the author will learn what we need to know about relationships, about closeness and distance and how we manage them. What we unknowingly internalized as children through imitation is not necessarily good or at least sufficient.

The relationships we get stuck in stay with us our entire lives. Time and again we get the chance to solve them. So how do you overcome being stuck and move forward in life?

Editions

Slovenia, Goga, 2022