Personally

How a skeptic turned to spirituality, faced traumatic memories, and lost his fear of closeness.This is not one of those modern books that will lie to you that you can do everything on your own, that you can wish for anything and the universe will fulfill your dreams. Nor will it fool you into thinking that all you have to do is remember childhood traumas and life becomes a tropical beach.

It will not recommend miraculous recipes, from walking the Camino and burning embers, to the Ayahuasca ritual, discovering past lives, shamanism, feng shui to ten-day kneeling among Buddhists – even though Miha tried and described all of this while writing this book. This is a book about relationships. About understanding, listening and talking. A book about closeness and how we create it. How we get closer and farther apart, how we are caught in an invisible dance and are not even aware that we are often just puppets on the strings of our ancestors and the environment.

Softcover, 15.0 x 21.0 cm, 277 pages.

THEY SAID ABOUT THE BOOK:
Mazzini writes about the most intimate, which is at the same time the most universal. It is good to know and read that others experience and feel very similarly, if not exactly the same, that they experience the same injustices, loneliness and shame that you think are only yours and that it is easier for everyone else. Thank you for this Personal Book! - Vlado Kreslin

How much courage does a person need to make their Personal become Public? It took the excellent Miha Mazzini more than 60 years to do this. Will others succeed too? When will we free ourselves from everything that was implanted in us in childhood, but which hurts, oppresses, suffocates, hinders and prevents us from loving? That's it, quite simply. Miha did. Many times. And again and again. And searched for himself. As we all search for ourselves. That's why solitude sometimes suits us. And that's why solitude sometimes suffocates us. That's why society sometimes suits us. And that's why society sometimes suffocates us. It's not enough to free ourselves, we need to cleanse ourselves, says Miha. We need to pull out the weeds that others have planted in us. That hurts. How many times while reading the book did I feel like I wanted to be with Miha and help him. It didn't work. And if I could, I would bring him back the Lives of the Saints tomorrow, when my personal life is still Personal and never Public. Please, someone, give Miho back this damn Lives of the Saints. - Marta Kos

A great novel in which you travel with the author and have the feeling that you are part of the "story", that you are (at least occasionally) Miha too. The novel Osebno is "personal" for every reader. Everyone can find something of their own life, dilemmas and emotions in it when reading the story. The author describes various situations so masterfully that the reader feels his pain, the smell of his grandmother... I highly recommend reading it and hope that the novel will also be translated into foreign languages. - Aleksander Čeferin

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Miha Mazzini, writer, author of 19 fiction books, 10 manuals, screenwriter, director and computer expert. Winner of numerous international awards. Author of scripts for two award-winning feature films and director of four short films. Graduated from postgraduate studies in screenwriting at The University of Sheffield, England. Doctor of Science, program Anthropology of Everyday Life, Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Ljubljana. His literary works have been translated into numerous foreign languages, by the largest European and American publishing houses.