Purple Psychology

Dr Naoisé O'Reilly
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Jul 7, 2024 • 7min

Episode 425: Reasons Behind the Death of Creativity and Craft work in Ireland

Can we start to take very simple actions and use all the spaces lying around the country to save the crafts we are so renowned for? Turning Turns 40 - Celebrating 40 years of the Irish Woodturners Guildhttps://www.dcci.ie/events/turning-turns-40/https://www.farmleigh.ie/events/clay-works-ceramics-ireland-annual-exhibition/
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Jul 2, 2024 • 4min

Episode 423: Trans Changing Room Conversation

Have you ever considered how ridiculously selfish and insecure you are? Like do you really think your body is so much better? or that any Trans person embarks on this journey so they can share a changing room with you and perve over your body?  It brings up deep questions of how you relate to men? How do you relate to gay women?   It's such a place of insecurity and unfortunately, success doesn't come with security.  
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Jun 30, 2024 • 3min

Episode 421: How to re-mould politics

What do we need for sanity to prevail - for a nation to be a good role model for democracy? 
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Jun 24, 2024 • 6min

Episode 419: changing perceptions and language of migration

I don't often feel overwhelmed - but I feel overwhelmed to tackle this topic. I'm reminding myself of the roots of why it is in a quartet of books with certain common themes. 
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Jun 17, 2024 • 4min

Episode 417: Messages from Unconditional

Messages from Unconditional will be hosted on my Patreon Join my Patreon for free to have access to this material - the first part out 19th June https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology
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Jun 13, 2024 • 4min

Episode 416: This is more than a ceasefire

This is not about a bunch of white people saving face or ego - this is about the space for long difficult discussions that have not taken place since 1948    
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Jun 9, 2024 • 8min

Episode 415: The costs of just choosing your own safety

We need to take our privilege of peace in Europe to create unity and sharing in these difficult days - only by valuing what we have can we create a role model for better justice, inclusion and choice in the places which haven't gained our freedom.   
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May 24, 2024 • 4min

Episode 414: Abdicating Responsibility in Supporting your Child

Abdicating responsibility in supportign your child - there is a whole industry queued up waiting to feed off your family. In creating these courses I'm asking you to take reusability as a family to create the trajectory of support - for the most difficult conversations; suicide, self-harm, eating disorders,  isolation, anxiety, school refusal, literacy and learning challenges.I'm asking you to find the gifts here in the truth.  I'm asking you to take ownership of your child's development.   This is as big as when I closed my physical school to work more impactfully with families - so they couldn't leave their problems at my door and go off to the supermarket.    Courses:Changing Literacy and Numeracy Learning ChallengesSchool Refusal - Teens Trapped in Bedrooms - School AnxietyIntroduction to HomeschoolingSelf-Harm, Suicide prevention and Eating Disordershttps://dr-naoise-oreilly.thinkific.com/collections
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May 9, 2024 • 9min

Episode 413: You don't get to be academic and not humanitarian - the end of the Ivy League tables

You don't get to be academic and not humanitarian - It's time for this narrative to change - the Israeli Universities need to stop sanctioning their academic staff who stand up for humanitarian rights - if they deserve to be included in international collaborations again.  Jewish journalist, Gideon Levy, speaking on the use of Jewish Victimhood (he is qualified to speak on this - not me) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK7NOniv2pwhttps://www.instagram.com/p/CzgCFVNuCRn/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuSPFuHSopo
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May 9, 2024 • 4min

Episode 412: Factors for doing well in exams

Factors for doing well in examsThere are 8 - being a swat in your bedroom is just one of them... 

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