
Purple Psychology
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
Latest episodes

Jul 3, 2023 • 13min
Episode 372: Not measuring Literacy is like asking parents to leave the church
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...

Jul 2, 2023 • 11min
Episode 371: HALLELUJAH: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song - why some of us must write
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

Jun 26, 2023 • 23min
Episode 370: What I've learnt about my own mental well-being for Authentic Expression
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=1https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84016.The_Same_River_Twice?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_19My Patreon Page:https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychologyMy new membership tiers:https://www.patreon.com/user?u=48642261&fan_landing=true

May 9, 2023 • 13min
Episode 364: Introducing Apple Podcast Channel to include Authentic Expression Podcast - Free trial link
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/3poMPOJJoin Patreon Authentic Expression Club - 1st meeting 15th Mayhttps://events.patreon.com/authenticexpressioncreators

May 1, 2023 • 17min
Episode 363: Artificial Intelligence the new industrial revolution
What cost are you going to pick? What choices are you going to make? People mentioned:Jane AddamsFlorence NightingaleMarie MontessoriA.S NeilLink:My Patreon Group - Join Now! Free!https://events.patreon.com/authenticexpressioncreatorshttps://www.youtube.com/@LunaTarot1https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/17/photographer-admits-prize-winning-image-was-ai-generated

Apr 25, 2023 • 16min
Episode 362: Launching Authentic Expression Creators Club Patreon
Authentic Expression Creators Club PatreonRegistration Link: https://events.patreon.com/authenticexpressioncreatorsCreate 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 bring out in others. You hold back from expressing your ideas as others want to commercialise them.You struggle to express your deep knowing.Your ideas are your soul on the page. Your creativity is a rarely seen glimpse into your soul. You create to provide solutions to the challenges you see for humanity. Your creativity has a greater purpose than you. You don’t wish to be ‘seen’ for the changes you can make towards a better humanity. The exposure of yourself is not what drives you but working towards a better humanity. You provide the answers in your creative work. You are focused on your truth. If you feel like this - this group is for you. You have never belonged in the world. You have seen so many conditions and games. What others conform to belong. You feel like your truth exposes an ugliness in others. The shadows, dark motivation, the unconscious of Jung’s work, or the demons. I wrote a whole book called bringing out the ugly! Some Quotes which may speak to you;“If we want a better world, we have to make it ourselves.”Alice Walker, Taking The Arrow Out Of The Heart.“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” Khalil Gibran“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth” Gautama Buddha.“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don’t go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep!” Rumi “I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them. “Pina Bausch“Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.”Pina Bausch“The things we discover for ourselves are the most important.”Pina Bausch“Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.” Octavia E. Butler“I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure. “Octavia E. Butler“I don't belong on earth, my soul is from the stars. I'm visiting this planet for a while so i can help people listen to their hearts.” Nikki roweAim: We are only as good as our creative process. You feel physically better when you transmute your ideas into creative projects. But suffer projection for them and their impacts on others. You feel misunderstood, for your difference of view - framing - where you see the world from. This group is about promoting creative well-being within this expression. Finding your way to this group:You may identify with some of these labels as you search for your belonging - INFJ, INTJ, ISFJ, Personality Disorder, Hypersensitive, Highly sensitive person, empath, Starseed, alien.What others might call you; Visionary, pioneering, unique, dreamer, idealist, warrior, wizard, weird.Can you imagine collaborating with truly like-minded beings that have got your sensitivities at a soul level supporting your truth to be in the world? Open to all expressions of creativity, ages, backgrounds, and locations - there are no limits.my bioAfter receiving a first-class honours degree in Marine Science at NUI, Galway and completing a PhD in Physical Oceanography at Southampton University in the UK, Naoisé O'Reilly returned to Ireland and founded and directed an alternative school.Through her quirky, open-ended and wholly unapologetic podcast, Purple Psychology, musings and raw non-fiction work that covers personal and cultural topics and frequently displays the dyslexic mind, Naoisé invites those who read her writings to enter a new world of possibility that begins by looking through a magical mirror that reflects hidden emotions, dreams and our ambiguously mysterious, yet eternally beautiful inner landscape.

Apr 20, 2023 • 13min
Episode 361: What Bullets do to Bodies
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/gun-violence/

Apr 16, 2023 • 22min
Episode 360: The shame signature in personalisation
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/purplepsychologySubscription podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/introduction-to-my-starseed-journey/id981266976?i=1000605015800Open source: https://drnaoiseoreilly.org/purple-learning-project/Books mentioned:Just as I Am, Cicely Tysonhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50622390-just-as-i-am?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=1GCClscPS5&rank=1The Essential June Jordan, June Jordanhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55224246-the-essential-june-jordan?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_11Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, bell hookshttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/250792.Ain_t_I_a_Woman?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_10

Apr 8, 2023 • 23min
Episode 359: The Autism Cycle
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 supermarkethttps://drnaoiseoreilly.org/purple-learning-project/Homework podcast:https://www.patreon.com/posts/video-3-79139786What parents say:https://drnaoiseoreilly.org/testimonials-for-dr-naoise-oreilly/

Mar 22, 2023 • 15min
Episode 358: A Program where you can do the work needed - Embodied Social Justice Certificate Program
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 see that maybe I wasn't the problem - the system has a problem! New article I spoke about:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/joetha-collier-killing-mississippi/629668/The course I truly feel might create a better humanity - one I want to sit in the same room with (and I don't care how much you project at me having an ego or being arrogant- it's my honest truth - I need the world to grow up and so does humanity if it was honest too)https://www.transformativeprograms.com/esj-certificate-program https://www.transformativeprograms.com/esjc-free-info-session-1?utm_campaign=info-session&utm_medium=email&utm_source=kj-rev&utm_term=info-session&utm_content=kj-revJung's book:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6454477-the-red-book?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=hL3tIRaLx4&rank=2