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Purple Psychology

408 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratings

Step out of black and white thinking. Shortlisted in top 10 for the People's Choice Podcast Awards 2017 in Education (maybe I should try entering an award again - I haven't since). I'm unboxable. A podcast that ranges from Children to Adults. Personality to Psychology. Education to Development. Philosophy to a modern critique of society and our politics. Self-help to Spiritualism. Vulnerability & creativity. Racism & Society Culture I started out caring about success - now I care about secureness. And I am to do this in a way that sits with my own authentic self and spiritual nature. I don't aim to give answers - I aim to give you permission to arrive at your own. Critical thinking possible for everyone regardless of education status. Writing - on .patreon dot com/purplepsychology become a supporter of this podcast - more information (drnaoiseoreilly dot org). Thank you! Podcast disclaimer on Purple Psychology dot com. More information drnaoiseoreilly dot org. ©Dr. Naoisé O'Reilly 2024. Please support this podcast and my fee-free work on Patreon 

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Episodes

Episode 405: How comparison crushes us

April 14, 2024 00:00 - 5 minutes - 9.85 MB

How comparison crushes us The most destructive habit that holds us back and that we can land ourselves in at any stage of our development.. no one is immune ... even me! 

Episode 403: How to not isolate gifted bright students

April 02, 2024 00:00 - 4 minutes - 8.15 MB

I love it when I'm proven right ... even if i need to wait a decade for the research to prove my innate knowing on how best to create a secure society!

Episode 404: How we use smartphones determines our mental well-being

April 02, 2024 00:00 - 7 minutes - 13.3 MB

Forget blanket statements on technology being 'bad' for us ... it's how we use the tool for our well-being which determines our mental health. We can't assume that if you have a smartphone you have anxiety, depression and concentration challenges.  Use pick-up data, notifications settings, scheduled downtime and nighttime mode to change your habits.  Change your practices for good well-being, engagement and a learning tool - and then change your parents! 

Episode 402: The St Patrick's Day circus

March 24, 2024 00:00 - 12 minutes - 22.4 MB

My Ireland - my home is not the same as an American's Irish.  An Authentic expression podcast I am drawn to make public  

Episode 400: Ditching Psychology Speak

March 24, 2024 00:00 - 7 minutes - 14.8 MB

Ditching Psychology Speak - what is narcissism? Why do we do so many books in school with narcissistic characters and not discuss this with you?  How to survive the games of narcissism that are entering our school "friendships"  The simple steps to not engage and get over the mistakes. 

Episode 401: Dissecting the Happiness Index

March 24, 2024 00:00 - 14 minutes - 27.5 MB

Dissecting the Happiness Index - the qualities humans seem to need for happiness are pretty disturbing and unsustainable as a society.  

Episode 399: Think time to perform efficiently

March 18, 2024 00:00 - 5 minutes - 10.9 MB

Think time to perform efficiently  One of the ways we perform more effectively and efficiently is to press pause. To allow ourselves to passively think about what we desire to create - to do - to answer. To do tasks in our mind and body before we ever sit down to do them!  Hence we think best while we move, while we experience in a different way - not at a computer screen! 

Episode 398: Picking a life instead of a career

March 11, 2024 00:00 - 7 minutes - 13.2 MB

All I wish career guidance considered while helping people to pick a career - it's time to change our focus from the hamster wheel to a lifestyle choice

Episode 397: the Truama of 'Posh' school

March 03, 2024 00:00 - 6 minutes - 11.6 MB

Reading this book reminded me of the hell of private - posh school ... what should have just been an opportunity - why wasn't it? and why does dedication need to be private for there to be opportunity?  Book this podcast is inspired by: All the Money in the World Sarah Moore Fitzgerald https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57805402-all-the-money-in-the-world?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=0FHmTxbmlA&rank=5

Episode 396: Finding Your Tribe

February 19, 2024 00:00 - 5 minutes - 10.9 MB

Finding your tribe, not having friends at school, the different meanings of friends to different people, growing and changing groups - just keep experiencing and don't search for somewhere to belong outside yourself!  Quote: "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." -  Søren Kierkegaard  Inspiration: If I mention the word belonging this book should be included! It's an audiobook too  Belonging: From Fear to Freedom on the Path to True Community Ange...

Episode 395: The Love that cannot die in Gaza

February 18, 2024 00:00 - 8 minutes - 16.2 MB

What are white supremacists really trying to kill with their bombs? 

Episode 394: Being Special not just seen as Selfish

February 12, 2024 00:00 - 4 minutes - 7.9 MB

We need to be selfish at a certain stage of our life and it would be better if we felt special - felt we had something to add to the world around us - achieved for ourselves so we can fully present for good relationships beyond our teen years... 

Episode 393: Moments of humanity in Gaza

February 10, 2024 00:00 - 9 minutes - 16.9 MB

How do we get to a place where we believe in something so much that we don't need revenge? John Berger reads Ghassan Kanafani's 'Letter from Gaza' https://youtu.be/-ThCEzFWLOQ Ghassan Kanafani: The commander who never fired a gun https://youtu.be/NvqcsbNyu-w?feature=shared Two Holocaust Experience books: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=PAAPsoN6Bb&rank=1 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1617.Night?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_5 ...

Episode 392: Don't let education kill your soul

February 05, 2024 00:00 - 6 minutes - 11.8 MB

Follow your passions, what you are good at - your dreams There is always a way back to education  don't make your dreams Plan B! 

Episode 391: How to support Purple Psychology Podcast - biggest one share!

January 31, 2024 00:00 - 1 minute - 3.3 MB

The biggest way to support me right now is to share - especially the Teen podcast  To support me: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392 https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/drnaoiseoreilly

Episode 389: Finding your style outside the pressures of influncers

January 29, 2024 00:00 - 8 minutes - 16.2 MB

How do you fit in and be unique at the same time... how to find your own style .. not just be a clone of the influencers? Comfortable but standing out too? Get role models for questioning toxic masculinity  https://news.sky.com/story/andrew-scott-and-paul-mescal-on-toxic-masculinity-the-most-macho-man-will-be-the-first-to-break-13054759

Episode 390: Unconditonal support - 15 years of lessons

January 29, 2024 00:00 - 11 minutes - 20.7 MB

A glimpse of the Authentic Expression Podcast and my Patreon space The lessons I have learned in 15 years of support - the trust I require now to move forward with my own sustainable way to support more people  To support me: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392 https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/drnaoiseoreilly

Episode 387: Teachers - the good, the bad and the ugly

January 25, 2024 00:00 - 5 minutes - 10.1 MB

How teachers form our experiences and our reactions matter more 

Episode 388: Why INFJs create their own spaces

January 25, 2024 00:00 - 13 minutes - 24.2 MB

This is a rare episode of the Star Subscription podcasts shared publically - to subscribe to the channel https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392 A journey I have been on again how to show up in the world as me and not crumble  How energetic responsibility is such a big deal to me - this is why I created this podcast space in a way .. not all of my being can be simply understood in INFJness  What does authentic showing up look like? is it loud? or is ...

Episode 386: Why Do We Write Books? An INFJ framing

January 14, 2024 00:00 - 7 minutes - 14.2 MB

Mentions: https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/concerts/calendar/details/55360/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL6D_IUZZyw https://www.shaulbustan.com/de/ Jon Batiste https://open.spotify.com/artist/0eRbECAGCLLiTyVXPBRexU Fred Rogers: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38656999-the-good-neighbor

Episode 385: Why do Pioneers need Support? Can We Heal Race

January 08, 2024 00:00 - 11 minutes - 20.7 MB

When you are unconditional and you create healed spaces you create new challenges for yourself and the continued support of your work for humanity beyond needs.  In support of this project Can We Heal Race - Healing Race Portal project by Rev angel Kyodo williams https://programs.revangel.com/liberation-through-healing?utm_campaign=ye23-campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_source=mc-rev&utm_term=ye23-campaign&utm_content=mc-rev&mc_cid=899f12ad71&mc_eid=3f79502d2e Rubble in Gaza: https...

Episode 384: How to stick to routines & New Year resolutions when you feel a bit ADHD

January 07, 2024 00:00 - 7 minutes - 13.6 MB

We are all different - stop trying to emulate people who aren't like you! You don't need to be someone else to have a good daily routine and achieve goals and a good healthy lifestyle!

Episode 383: Why I can't do the Black and white squares

December 15, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutes - 45.8 MB

A big journey of why I don't feel a belonging and don't wish to - I still work towards us having a world I would wish to belong in ... one where I can be received all the time The book that has reminded me of who I was at 7 and not who everyone thinks I was ... not all the pain I've taken through all those I've worked with ... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83667594-the-vibration-of-grace?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=w0nYGnqDwi&rank=1 The Vibration of Grace: Sound Heal...

Episode 382: Responce to Dublin Riots

December 04, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 27.7 MB

What really lies beneath? Who do we really need to "blame" 

Episode 381: Press reset for the Holidays - being in now

December 03, 2023 00:00 - 7 minutes - 14.6 MB

I mentioned a talk at the half-day Sit by Rev angel Kyodo Williams the next one is New Year Link to register: https://programs.revangel.com/half-day-sit-sound-bath?utm_campaign=hds-x-soundbath&utm_medium=email&utm_source=mc-rev&utm_term=hds-x-soundbath&utm_content=mc-rev&mc_cid=88f50d49ce&mc_eid=3f79502d2e

Episode 380: To suffer of not to suffer

November 20, 2023 00:00 - 22 minutes - 40.4 MB

What is suffering? Buddha style  Link to previous work on 5 rank system  https://drnaoiseoreilly.org/five-ranks-of-tsao-tung-meets-purple-learning-project/ You will find links to the podcast series there from 2021! A long time ago.. but when you can return to your work to help with your sanity you must have done something right! 

Episode 379: Taking stock - being allignment now in a difficult world

November 10, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes - 21.1 MB

*sorry the loudest boat went past :-@

Episode 378: Learning to be a receptor - Lib5 Challenge

October 24, 2023 00:00 - 7 minutes - 13.2 MB

Register here for LIB5 challenge https://www.revan.gl/lib5-2023-levelup Books mentioned: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1617.Night?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=jd3kiTuQgQ&rank=4 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning?ref=nav_sb_ss_3_4

Episode 377: Effort we put into creating educational environments

October 10, 2023 00:00 - 7 minutes - 13.7 MB

If we changed our mindset on how we apply resources and what we 'fixed' we'd change the world - we'd build a new humanity - those socialisation skills we crave. 

Episode 376: Open and closed spaces for creativity exploartion

October 01, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutes - 33 MB

Creating for Mirrors and Muses - the differences  How this connects and relates to how we create open and closed spaces.  My Patreon - join the community  https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology

Episode 375: Effects of the Superficial Persona

September 20, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutes - 37.4 MB

New links: What to call this podcast? - the effects of the superficial persona we now need - the lack of objective substance in conversations. The impacts of our own assumptions.  My journey over the last few months- what I am working on and where - how to engage with my work and all the links below for the different zones!      Patreon shop: certain books (Teen book available), Satrseed podcasts https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology/shop Patreon join the public community at no cost:...

Episode 374: Barbie as homophobic as ever

August 09, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutes - 37.9 MB

Don't listen if you don't want spoilers to the film! This is the start of season 11 - why everything wrong with the world can be blamed on postmodernism. During the breaks catch up with my work on Patreon: (the integration zone!)    https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology

Episode 373: If we created by a Black soul, lived in a Brown principles and energy or treated the land with the respect of any Indigenous culture - the world would be lovable

July 20, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutes - 58.5 MB

If we created by a Black soul, lived in a Brown principle and energy or treated the land with the respect of any Indigenous culture - the world would be more lovable  I'm not going to link all the material I quote - for once you are going to have to listen to the material closely to follow it!   

Episode 372: Not measuring Literacy is like asking parents to leave the church

July 03, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes - 22.9 MB

This is a collaboration podcast I recorded .. hopefully, the visuals will follow soon! Why do we need labels?  We never stop to reflect on the blueprint formed in education with the church - especially Christianity. 75 million views later and Sir Ken Robinson has not changed how schools kill creativity - there must be a bigger hook... 

Episode 371: HALLELUJAH: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song - why some of us must write

July 02, 2023 00:00 - 10 minutes - 20.1 MB

I recorded this for the lattice (star set) but I'm drawn to put it out publically briefly ...  This is the film I needed to see this week with all that is happening in my life ... how important it is for me to write from a place of love not suffering ... how important for me to gift this forward ...     https://youtu.be/11IPQYZMXjc

Episode 370: What I've learnt about my own mental well-being for Authentic Expression

June 26, 2023 00:00 - 23 minutes - 42.6 MB

Alice Walker always turns up when I most need her - these are the two books I've leaned on and sorry I can't read the quotes better! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60943.In_Search_of_Our_Mothers_Gardens?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=sBGqCRxYJ4&rank=1 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84016.The_Same_River_Twice?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_19 My Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology My new membership tiers: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=48642261&fan_landing=true

Episode 364: Introducing Apple Podcast Channel to include Authentic Expression Podcast - Free trial link

May 09, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes - 24.2 MB

I have created a free trial from May 9th until May 17th to coincide with the start of the Patreon club  Link for Puple Pyschology Channel: https://apple.co/3poMPOJ Join Patreon Authentic Expression Club - 1st meeting 15th May https://events.patreon.com/authenticexpressioncreators

Episode 363: Artificial Intelligence the new industrial revolution

May 01, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutes - 30.7 MB

What cost are you going to pick? What choices are you going to make?  People mentioned: Jane Addams Florence Nightingale Marie Montessori A.S Neil Link: My Patreon Group - Join Now! Free! https://events.patreon.com/authenticexpressioncreators https://www.youtube.com/@LunaTarot1 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/17/photographer-admits-prize-winning-image-was-ai-generated  

Episode 362: Launching Authentic Expression Creators Club Patreon

April 25, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutes - 30.2 MB

Authentic Expression Creators Club Patreon Registration Link: https://events.patreon.com/authenticexpressioncreators Create a Patreon: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002958403-Start-my-creator-page-on-Patreon  My Original Text: An incubation zone to support birthing ideas into the world which are not palatable in your main Patreon zone - as you need your Patreons to stay present or you don’t feel like suffering the projections fallout, or criticism such ideas b...

Episode 361: What Bullets do to Bodies

April 20, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes - 23.2 MB

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/gun-violence/

Episode 360: The shame signature in personalisation

April 16, 2023 00:00 - 22 minutes - 40.4 MB

The deep questions I have had in relation to what signature prevents mixed race bodies from dropping into the core and not projecting personalisation into a room.  where to drop into my work: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology Subscription podcast:  https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/introduction-to-my-starseed-journey/id981266976?i=1000605015800 Open source: https://drnaoiseoreilly.org/purple-learning-project/ Books mentioned: Just as I Am, Cicely Tyson https...

Episode 359: The Autism Cycle

April 08, 2023 00:00 - 22 minutes - 41.9 MB

Who is benefitting from the autism cycle that we are creating in education? Perhaps we are creating a society people can't live in - maybe there isn't anything wrong with them?     The autism hour in the supermarket https://drnaoiseoreilly.org/purple-learning-project/ Homework podcast: https://www.patreon.com/posts/video-3-79139786 What parents say: https://drnaoiseoreilly.org/testimonials-for-dr-naoise-oreilly/

Episode 358: A Program where you can do the work needed - Embodied Social Justice Certificate Program

March 22, 2023 00:00 - 14 minutes - 26.6 MB

You can't "fix" people - or "save" them ... they have to do the work themselves - and as travel, through life, I'm not prepared to go backwards and suffer the physical symptoms I suffered in school being bullied and positioned into a certain box ...  to feel the discomfort of being in the wrong room - or being the wrong person in the room - or the overall sensitive person - or whatever blame you want to put on me ... it took my a long journey through the other side of education to s...

Episode 357: Launching Apple Podcast Subscriptions - my starseed journey

March 20, 2023 00:00 - 3 minutes - 5.81 MB

I've finally done it ... with a good purpose in mind .. a select personal journey to support others... This feels right for now ... it only has to be right for now for me to follow the path!  https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/purple-psychology/id981266976?i=1000605015800 Thank you for your Support   Naoisé

Episode 356: The Creator's Faith

March 12, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes - 22.3 MB

My current journey as I work towards new projects...  Books mentioned: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36436073-create-dangerously https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2547.The_Prophet?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_8 If someone wants to send me a copy of this book please do - I can't get it in Ireland!  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104855.Beloved_Prophet?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_9

Episode 355: Living in the Gap - the most insightful conversation on how I work

February 28, 2023 00:00 - 41 minutes - 75.4 MB

Living in the Gap - the most insightful conversation on how I work  A very deep conversation with Oonagh Browne who constantly translates the gap to me. I think it's part of her life purpose here for me and others like me. An Edmund Hillary Fellow (EHF). A being I am so grateful for! A being who translates how I don't have the same in-body experience - how I'm plugged in but almost manifest experiences to be able to channel being human here - to see it through other people's human ...

Episode 354: Boundreis and Walls - our wellbeing

February 22, 2023 00:00 - 14 minutes - 25.9 MB

My Patreon for the accompanying writing https://www.patreon.com/user?u=48642261&fan_landing=true

Episode 353: Emoji Tones

February 15, 2023 00:00 - 10 minutes - 19.4 MB

News story from 1946 - https://www.instagram.com/p/CokwrI4vLHD/ Why this is not history - the same news story today - the same actions and reactions  Sergeant Isaac Woodard was left blind after police brutality because he wasn't submissive to racism towards him (which makes my point about the black face emoji!) I find this emoji racist - https://emojipedia.org/dotted-line-face/ Someone, please apply for a Balck unicorn (and all other tones) https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html Di...

Episode 352: Conditioning I feel around St. Brigid's Day

February 06, 2023 00:00 - 29 minutes - 17.8 MB

I want us to integrate our inclusive ways ... those parts of ourselves we have been battling to represent... to have heard  To quote Mary Robison's inauguration Speach which was read out to me on the Hill of Uisneach yesterday  https://uisneach.ie  "The recent revival of an old concept of the Fifth Province expresses this emerging Ireland of tolerance and empathy. The old Irish term for province is coicead, meaning a “fifth”; and yet, as everyone knows, there are only four geogra...

Episode 351: Why the world needs the beauty of Blackness - why this so speaks to INFJs

February 02, 2023 00:00 - 35 minutes - 64.7 MB

A podcast record with one of my tribe - Oonagh Browne  My navigating of being back in suffering kindergarten for the last few weeks - the impacts of all that has been taking place. The complexities and correlations I have seen and been working directly with.  So grateful to Oonagh.  I can't mention Belonging and not reference this book we have both read: Belonging: From Fear to Freedom on the Path to True Community Rev Angel Kyodo Williams https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55384181-...