Purple Psychology

How we become something new because of the assumptions and expectations of education. In reference to Black writers who speak to me in relation to this.Links to what I reference during the podcast ....  Maya Angelou poem links:https://www.aresearchguide.com/touched.htmlhttps://blackartsmovementumf.wordpress.com/maya-angelou/Post on the impacts of Cotton and the fashion industry on Black people:https://www.instagram.com/p/CZbwE6YIFyI/Alice Walker, We are the ones we have been waiting for - read it please - only one little part hit off my personal pain!https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40968.We_Are_the_Ones_We_Have_Been_Waiting_for?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=7VOmMUQjWF&rank=1Zora Neale Hurston Books:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37415.Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=BQ9VjETahw&rank=1https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2590136-barracoon?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=t6LZtMN5Pe&rank=1Octavia E. Butler:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/29535.Octavia_E_Butler?from_search=true&from_srp=trueBiography Star Child by Ibi Zoboihttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57994153-star-child

I hate labels but I want you to find this so I'll use the well known markers. How this makes you feel. How I can go from whole to feeling useless after 5 days. How the stored trauma in my body will help me meet my students better. 

Why are we Bullied?A journey through the reasons we are bullied and how to reach peace with this so the patterns truly change for humanity. So it's no longer beneficial to bully. Quote used: “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Best Boy meets Boy, coming out Teen fiction I've read:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52739801-date-me-bryson-keller

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What should a good relationship be like? My simple tells in a complex world ...My favourite book about relationships between women. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42442934-queen-of-coin-and-whispers?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=AfKgfFKPHH&rank=1Quote used:"If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful self-mastery tool that keeps realigning me with my higher purpose. " Pretty sure this is from A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle.My teen book:https://www.patreon.com/user?u=48642261&filters[tag]=WTFConscious relationship Article:https://iheartintelligence.com/conscious-relationships/?fb=iisMary Haskell - principle of a school in Boston When the mist overwhelms the “I” in me, I take two or three letters out of the little box and reread them. They remind me of my true self. They make me overlook all that is not high and beautiful in life. Each and every one of us, dear Mary, must have a resting place somewhere. The resting place of my soul is a beautiful grove where my knowledge of you lives.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104855.Beloved_Prophet?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=vTR14ORAEJ&rank=1May Elias Ziadeh was a Lebanese-Palestinian poet,"If you happen to like anything in it, then your approval will turn it into a graceful reality, if not, then it will revert in its entirety to mist"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1678307.Love_Letters?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=bkwxB0RqUQ&rank=2

Why is this generation speaking in little dots that don't say anything? How do we navigate freedom of speech? Books on my reading list that I've not got to yet:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110193.The_Veil_and_the_Male_Elitehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1617.Night

It's mercury retrograde so of course, there is a tiny little blip in the audio I can't edit out!  And this episode has not been posted on Spotify?!  So I have left all the links out and let's see if it will be included now? Thanks for your understandingNaoisé(the joys of these 3 weeks spins with a planet of communication )  

A very reflective podcast since it's 13 years yesterday since I got the keys to my school. Thinking about how I don't need the person opposite to be me. To even shut down aspects of myself to be less reactive in order to be of more help to others. Feeling my way through why my own report at 16 wasn't very helpful to me. 

*it's mercury retrograde so of course, there is a tiny little blip in the audio I can't edit out!  Please create a space for people to talk. A culture of this could save lives.  The Speech transcript again:https://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety?t=1643110301423The horrendous bullying that led to an 18-year-old taking his own life even after the chance to press reset on his life:https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2022/0118/1274478-eden-heaslip-cavan-bullying/?fbclid=IwAR0N4Yu14NZE-viDgmZD8Ns3aGMofyxbOLIRbx3QOfhsjzY1nBrK_WmV1Fc

The disconnect we now have between instant gratification - instant response and the natural course of development and how long change creates.For years I have done a task with students to compare Rosa Parks and Dr Martin Luther King Jr.Both in terms of difference of personality to both create an impact as the best of themselves but also the length of time change takes. References:https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycotthttps://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety?t=1642587267965Because I didn't have notes I forgot to talk about this article on how long it took for MLK Day to be acknowledged in all States and under the name of what it represents. See the full timeline!https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/mlk-day-timeline-how-the-martin-luther-king-jr-birthday-became-a-holiday