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Bubamarrë
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This podcast is an intimate exploration of the Self, the Other, and everything in between. Deep dive into an intricate web of thoughts, emotions and ideas with your host Bubamarrë, and explore what makes the fabric of being human. In each episode, Bubamarrë reads from their personal journal, used as a prompt to jump-start reflective synthesis. Drawing from life experience, their journey through psychotherapy, and background in games and systems design, Bubamarrë connects the dots between the personal and the universal. This is a space to reflect, relate, and grow. You're welcome to join in the flow. 🐞 bubamarre.substack.com

  1. 08/20/2024

    20S4: On Love & Accepting the Difference

    Today's journal entry has prompted today's reflective synthesis to be about a most powerful, indescribable feeling: Love. Love, I believe, will be my life’s work to understand. It already is at the center of everything that I do as a creator, in all its shades and shapes and sizes. My perception of it has been actively evolving as I grow older and especially through psychotherapy. My fascination with this sheer force of a feeling is only growing deeper, the more I grow through life. A force that drives connection, an act of radical acceptance of our differences, a glue that holds communities and societal structures together... and can it be taught? Without love, we probably wouldn't have evolved at the speed with which we have evolved into the individuals we are today. At least, that's my theory. But I am also known to be a hopeless romantic, so, there's that... Join me in this flow, and may you find something in it to feed into yours. Chapters 00:00 Introduction: Straight into the Journal 00:50 Journal Entry: On Love & Loving 04:41 Journal Entry #2: The Phenomenon of Human 06:17 Digesting the Journal Entries 07:31 The Meanings of Love & Loving 10:03 Empathy: Recognizing the Self & the Other 13:06 The Need for Connection and Community 13:37 The Role of Empathy in Love 15:38 Accepting Differences in Love 19:55 Love and History 23:35 Learning to Love, Ourselves Included 27:48 The Role of Love in Entropy 31:34 Epilogue: Finding & Sharing Our Authenticity This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bubamarre.substack.com

    20S4: On Love & Accepting the Difference

  2. 08/05/2024

    20S4: On Feeling Safe & Learning to Create Spaces to Be

    Unlike our typical deep-dives, this one explores a more recent journal entry, giving you a much closer look at my current state of being. Anxious, confused but aware, I had to explore a concept that's been recently haunting me: what does being safe mean, and what how does it affect my view of the world when I'm not? Now, how to even get there is an entirely different topic. If safety is about being able to be ourselves and feel secure in our identities, then I am still exploring identities in which I feel safest in my being. In shedding narratives that had me stuck in cycles where I exposed myself to unsafe environments, people or situations, my identity is shaken to the core. Do I even know myself safe? How do I consciously allow myself to feel safe where I am, or recalibrate my homeostasis to accept safety as a new norm? I explore these thoughts as I lock into new narratives that serve as a compass into a better reality lived in, but also am aware and acknowledge that I must take all parts of me with myself. That means meeting myself where I am today, so we can walk into a more stable tomorrow. Join me in this flow of vulnerability, and may you find something in it to feed into yours. Chapters 00:00 Introduction: Exploring the Concept of Safety 01:39 The Relationship Between Safety and Home 04:14 Creating Safe Spaces and Homes 06:16 The Essentiality of Safety 17:29 Journal Entry: On Feeling Safe 21:23 Creating a Safe Space 24:00 Identifying and Addressing Unsafety 30:11 Starting with Oneself 36:14 The Power of Caring 41:39 Inspiring Positive Change This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bubamarre.substack.com

    20S4: On Feeling Safe & Learning to Create Spaces to Be

  3. 07/10/2024

    20S4: On Restarting the Podcast and The Joy of Sharing Stories

    Hello - and welcome back to whatever this is, or isn't, or will be. It's been a long, long time and a lot has changed. In me, around me, you, the world, and the tools we use on a daily basis. I'm trying something different, For now, I just wanted to get back to into it, without giving it too much thought.⁠ I experimented with Spotify's new tool Riverside and seeing if I'll like it enough to stick with it. The longer we think about doing something, the longer we take to do it. Sometimes, we just have to go ahead and do it. Thank you for being here. May you find something in this to feed into Yours. ⁠⁠🐞 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bubamarre.substack.com

    20S4: On Restarting the Podcast and The Joy of Sharing Stories

  4. 06/25/2022

    20S2: Back to the Flow

    I haven't been processing much, these days. Between a deepening understanding of myself and the world we live in, and a growing web of connecting with people from all walks of life and wonderful stories to share - I haven't really been diving internally, much. This is a return to the original purpose of this tool - a process of self-expression and discovery through which I expose my patterns of being.  Thank you for joining in this flow, and may you find something in it, to feed into Yours. 🐞 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bubamarre.substack.com

    20S2: Back to the Flow

  5. 05/12/2022

    20S3: GUEST EPISODE | Mysafirja ne Sh'pi: Muke Shkreta, shembull i pedagogjise!

    [This Episode is Recorded in Albanian, the brief introduction in the intro (2mins) describes the talk before the episode transitions into the Albanian language. I've decided to record Albanian episodes and launch them as-is, for my fellow Kosovars, as we need to break into core topics in our society which we do not discuss out in the open, nor do we dive in too much depth about. We will see where this road takes us. Perhaps one day, I will be able to prepare English translations of the transcript of the conversation. Until then, enjoy the other To Whom It May Concern episodes in English!] Epizoda e parë në shqip osht' shumë e frikshme, për mu. Mukes, krejtë ky muhabet i erdh shumë lehtë, si herën e parë (fatkeqësisht e painçizume, po fatmirësisht që jemi njoftu me këtë shpirt prej njeriu), si herën e dytë. Mukja na qelë dyert, sytë e zemrën në nji profesion, që gjithësecili Kosovar/e që kalon, ka kalu, e osht' t'u kalu nëpër sistemin tonë të edukimit, osht' prekë prej saj... pedagogjia. Vizioni i sistemit të edukimit, varet prej pedagogëve që e implementojnë. Me e ditë që ka njerëz si Mukja që sot studiojnë e e shtyjnë para me plot pasion, dashuni, dashamirësi e njerëzillëk, ma mbushë zemrën shpresë për nji Kosovë t'ndritun.  Mukja na sjellë eksperienca personale, na jepë perspektivë të pasun mbi gjendjen e sistemit edukimit e të nevojave shoq'nore që i sheh, qysh kishim mujtë me nisë me i zgjedhë, e ku kishim mujtë me shku prej këtu. Oh bre, çfarë muhabeti!!! Nuk ka thonë Naim Frashëri me pahirë: Punë, punë, natë e ditë, që të shohim pakëz dritë! Ngojeni bisedën me Muken, shoq'ni, e mbushuni shpresë e njohuri.  Deri n'herat e ardhshme! Falemnderit që i jeni bashkangjitë kësaj rrjedhe, gjet'shit në to çka e ushqen të juajen!

    20S3: GUEST EPISODE | Mysafirja ne Sh'pi: Muke Shkreta, shembull i pedagogjise!

  6. 04/30/2022

    20S3: GUEST EPISODE | How We Operate Our Social Blueprints, with Artan Xhemaili

    Welcome to yet another guest episode with a friend made in interesting circumstance: Artan came from Skopje with the sole purpose in mind of joining in this Flow. Honored and humbled to have dived together, as merely strangers, deep into topics of our social brain and how we cannot seem to help re-enacting our social blueprints no matter how disconnected from a mentality we feel, and emerged connected in earnest. Where do we begin this process of bringing our cultural blueprints up to date? Does it begin with being aware of the fact we're operating on them?  Most probably. Join us in this Flow, and may you find something in it, to feed into Yours! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bubamarre.substack.com

    20S3: GUEST EPISODE | How We Operate Our Social Blueprints, with Artan Xhemaili

  7. 04/07/2022

    20S3: GUEST EPISODE | The Mind of a Maker, luthier Giannis Paleodimopoulos

    Today's episode is brought to you by fortunate misfortune - a call to adventure this restless spontaneous spirit of mine had to answer this invitation into the fray.  In a small village near Thessaloniki in Greece, Giannis is in his workshop crafting his beautiful instruments. A soul of a Maker, he tells us of how he took the path of a Craftsman, learned to make guitars (a passion he's known he was called to do since he was 16), and through where this path of life has taken him. [Did you know that a guitar craftsperson is called a Luthier?] There was always more to learn about Giannis - from him building his own home from the ground up, to growing his own vineyard and making wine for friends, to making music with his people... this conversation has left us with much to think about long after it happened. The epilogue inspired a little poem reading, from this gift of a collection of poems called "A Poem for Every Spring Day". Let this little quirky poem be a surprise. Join us in this flow, and may you find something in it to feed into Yours! 🐞 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bubamarre.substack.com

  8. 03/25/2022

    20S2: The Status Quo

    I find myself wondering what the Status Quo is a lot these days. Since I am travelling a lot these months and am unable to sift through and carefully deconstruct bigger topics, here's a cookie-bite of a Flow exploring this thought a bit deeper, for what time permits.  * I will try to introduce more of these Cookie Bite flows. Stay tuned for more Guest Episodes!  Thank you for joining in this Flow, and may you find something in it to feed into yours! 🐞 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bubamarre.substack.com

    20S2: The Status Quo
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This podcast is an intimate exploration of the Self, the Other, and everything in between. Deep dive into an intricate web of thoughts, emotions and ideas with your host Bubamarrë, and explore what makes the fabric of being human. In each episode, Bubamarrë reads from their personal journal, used as a prompt to jump-start reflective synthesis. Drawing from life experience, their journey through psychotherapy, and background in games and systems design, Bubamarrë connects the dots between the personal and the universal. This is a space to reflect, relate, and grow. You're welcome to join in the flow. 🐞 bubamarre.substack.com

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