Purple Psychology
Dr Naoisé O'Reilly
Please Support my Independent Thought on Patreon PurplePsychology or On Apple Podcast Channel PurplePsychology. Podcast Disclaimer on PurplePsychology dot Com. More Information DrNaoiseOReilly dot org. A podcast that ranges from Teen to Adult. Originally I have a Doctorate in philosophy (Psychical Oceanography). I’ve spent my whole adult life supporting Students in one form or another. I always feel they are right and this podcast aims to get under the bonnet of what is really at the root of our society challenges. How to be authentic and vulnerable in practice not just in name. How to critically reflect on big topics. Always with a suggested reading list. I do the research and join the dots in my Sigma INFJ mode so you don’t need to do all the work. Presented in Bite size portions. ©Dr. Naoisé O'Reilly 2025.
Episodes
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Nov 26, 2020 • 5min
Episode 208: Competition and Creativity
When competition is helpful to get over perfectionism. But is a hindrance in creativity and especially group collaborations.
Nov 25, 2020 • 6min
Episode 207: Awareness
How has 2020 been a good year? Yes, you heard me right....
Nov 19, 2020 • 6min
Episode 206: We rarely reward people who don’t compromise
Why I admire John Lewis and Dr Jane Goodall so much. The idea of being 'in this world but not of it' as spoken about John Lewis. Reading others, questioning your work but not yourself and your true Core. Working with others to reach a place of true equality and support. the cloak of compromise we vail our Core with. John Lewis quote used: “You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone—any person or any force—dampen, dim or diminish your light. Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant. Lean toward the whispers of your own heart, discover the universal truth, and follow its dictates.”*sorry one day I will find a chair which doesn't 'click' in the podcast!
Nov 17, 2020 • 4min
Episode 205: Anxiety - why it is different for different personalities
Anxiety is an externally created process. It's one of the easiest ways for us to see our differences and our different needs. Anxiety is created by not being met by others as we are.
Nov 11, 2020 • 10min
Episode 204: The un-nameable podcast
I have recorded the intro to this podcast 3 times as I have messed up 3 times in new ever-increasing ways! I used the word 'minority' originally which is accurate in an Irish context. The challenge with our own frame of reference. Then I made it worse. And now I don't know what to call it.Why the pain as a white person not being able to read and write in school does not have the same generational patterns as it does for a student who is not white. Understanding how having a core gives you security but also the knowledge to know where your pain stops and someone else starts. How this prevents polarisation.
Nov 10, 2020 • 7min
Episode 203: Parents never embrace the teenage years
Why we create moody, uncooperative and secret teens. How parents and older people can embrace the joy. the discovery and not contain it. As an adult are you still hanging on to the baggage you grew up with? The inability to be different from your family?
Nov 6, 2020 • 8min
Episode 202: The sea of Red represents your own growth
The equal and opposite reaction to growth. Why you need to have pride in what it has taken for the reaction of the red mass. How those people are trapped in those red squares and you are not. The equal and opposite reaction that has taken place in every sense. Where this week has taken me back to personally. My own empathetic pain.
Oct 29, 2020 • 4min
Episode 201: The power of the individual - how people grow like trees
Why we need the elder tress to protect the young saplings and encourage their growth to their true possibility. Quotes used: Post Of Gloria Steinem (Instagram) "...change always grows from the bottom up, like a tree, not from the top down. So look at each other, trust what you know is right - and keep going!"Now Is The Time To Open Your Heart - Alice Walker".. the young trees coming up had no shade to protect them from the blistering sun that backed the earth to ash. They were as brittle as matchsticks and unable to grow tall. They would never know the grandeur of the parents and grandparents who proceeded them. How would they ever guess what their true nature was?" The Hidden Life Of Trees - Peter Wohlleben
Oct 27, 2020 • 5min
Episode 200: What we need to learn during the pandemic
As we enter the second lockdown in Europe and others have not been so fortunate to have a break between waves - what has the pandemic thought us about our society and how we need to live differently?
Oct 23, 2020 • 7min
Episode 199 Representative, politician or businessman - Thoughts on the final presidential election debate
A master class on why business people can't create humanity or have the patience for change - proper change. I quote John Lewis book 'Across That Bridge' and Martin Luther King Jr. - "I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable." from his "Unfulfilled Dreams Speech"
