Purple Psychology

Our obsession with measuring in terms of education - what I'm going to endeavour to achieve in this podcast series. How I feel the Transgender Journey is the penultimate development journey. The article I speak about in relation to the Paralympics opposed to how we just normalise males or females in the Olympics. Do we really know the impacts of certain drugs on performance? https://www.irishtimes.com/news/classification-explanation-understanding-the-paralympic-codes-1.544612 

To sum up the Oscars read about the Oscars during World War 2https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/how-the-oscars-went-austere-for-world-war-ii.html

If you want to create something different - if you want the world to stop measuring - you need to be in the world differently and ironically I'm going to talk about the only part of a book I don't agree with .. participation... It's ok to not belong in the room. Two books I want to recommend you readOne I have shared in the past:Belonging: From Fear to Freedom on the Path to True Communityby Angel Kyodo Williamshttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55384181-belongingThe one I speak about in this podcast:Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of FreedomBell Hookshttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27091.Teaching_to_Transgress?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=L56PmXwplB&rank=4

This proves Louise Hays thinking that Thyroid conditions are due to suppression of expression.  Why I focus so much on giving people a way to express themselves. Why I don't agree you have long term inability to form good relationships. Why were you bullied in the first place? What did you have to offer?  Article:https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220307-the-best-way-to-stop-bullying

Wow, this has been the most difficult podcast to record for quite some time ... I don't know what I have said that is so difficult but someone doesn't want it said out loud! You will notice two points where the voice patterns change because I have to splice in new recording snippets ... the wind and rain have beat off the windows ... all of this is beyond my control but I have persevered!The Crossing Book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55371169-the-crossing 

Why I dislike labels - the legacy left behind after the reports and the assumptions. The judgements that are thrown out by people who don't have your processing challenges. Who have no idea how your brain works or how to actually support you.We only ever focus on what we can't do. But increasingly the personality content online is inaccurate and doesn't represent Myers-Briggs's work. But the limitations we often apply and our conditioning. 

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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