Dr Naoisé O'Reilly

Purple Psychology

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I’m a writer and researcher exploring human behavior, hidden patterns, and societal dynamics. I love connecting ideas across disciplines to help people think critically, live authentically, and better understand themselves and the world. My work includes poetry, books, essays, a podcast called Purple Psychology, and more—I have a heart for anyone seeking guidance, and I’ve spent my adult life helping students who don’t feel like they “fit” the mold. If that’s you, or you simply feel drawn to the space, I hope you’ll visit and stay for a time with me.©️Dr Naoisé O’Reilly 2026

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Jul 3, 2026

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Episode 459: Death of the American Dream 05.05.2025

Thank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work Podcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology iBooks: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194 The American Dream wasn’t for everyone or certainly wasn’t equal in possibility…  however someone such as Charlie Chaplin is the epitome of...

Episode 458: Humans have polarities 01.05.2025

If we accepted polarities and the natural order of equal and opposite reactions we might not have polarisation. When will humans except difference with compassion? Book mentioned: My Autobiography, Charles Chaplin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84038.My_Autobiography Thank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work  Podcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channe...

Episode 457: The Women Thing, Transgender conversation we are not having 21.04.2025

Why do we have so many insecure women?  I was given an idea in looking at Jung's idea of the 3rd space ... balancing feminine and masculine energy within ourselves 

Episode 456: Oneness 18.04.2025

A journey into what I’ve been discovering around Oneness..  Support my Podcasts Channel on Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392  (This allows me to have independent views!) It’s in an aquarium! Though there are other examples on the seabed  https://youtu.be/3O4sYndUdsI?si=Depsz3dxHe58YJkO

Episode 455: AI and Authentic Expression 18.04.2025

Why are the creative people in my life the ones who distrust AI?  What are the environmental considerations? Do we ever stop to think about how much we have in the cloud?  Support my Podcasts Channel on Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392  (This allows me to have independent views!)

Episode 454: What is Belonging? 13.04.2025

A topic I return to again in the hyper-direction mode of psychology and the need to be popular Inspired by Bell Hook's writing - My favourite chapter is    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207369 Chper 15 - Peicing it all together 

Episode 453: Looking below the surface of Anti- American dialogue 10.04.2025

Thank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work  Podcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology iBooks: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194 We are told to focus on community - but what is this? And what is it away from the corporate context that we have absorbed from America? F...

Episode 452: Navigating the Collective Void 09.04.2025

Link to iBooks http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194 I realise the part that is causing me extreme pain is that I am experiencing what the collective is doing - and it's a massive death - a much more painful journey than the one of simply not fitting in ... I guess it's harder for parts of yourself for die than it is to have never signed up ... I have done this journey for 3 months before a...

Episode 451: The impacts of over labelling 06.04.2025

Thank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work  Podcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology iBooks: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194 Some people are starting to speak to me - there is a time to stop showing up - to put the work down - to say no - to stop meeting the expe...

Episode 450: Navigating Root Fear 04.04.2025

Thank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work  Podcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology iBooks: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194 What I have been integrating with huge transits and the backdrop of the world. Not to mention my yearly gripe of when they f**k with the c...

Episode 449: We need to focus on corruption 14.03.2025

Thank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work  Podcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology iBooks: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194 We need to focus on corruption - not the noise or the attention-seeking circus - with one clear message we can dismantle what is creating...

Episode 448: ADHD is wrong not your operating system 12.03.2025

Thank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work  Podcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology iBooks: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194 I'm disturbed by the push for people to do ADHD testing.. and in fact even the Economist recently wrote maybe we are looking at people wro...

Episode 447: You are not in a controlled simulation of society 03.03.2025

Thank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work Podcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology iBooks: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194 How do we create more choices for people - it really is that simple for me. Divergent: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13335037-diverge...

Episode 446: A Better Template for Humanity - Collective Consciousness just got easier 02.02.2025

Thank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work  Podcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology iBooks: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194 I know you think that January 2026 has marked a change for the worse - I don't -  it has never been so transparently clear the power of th...

Episode 445: Why are students using AI for essays and what are the impacts on authentic expression 23.01.2025

Why are students using AI for essays and what are the impacts on authentic expression  Why have I stopped using Grammarly for my creative writing? The irony of what it takes to have a unique authentic report from the system.  Why are teachers and academics positively correcting essays generated by AI?  It brings into question what skills we are not teaching students and why are the pressures so hi...

Episode 444: Cleansing to Create 20.01.2025

What am I actively doing at the moment to keep moving forward?  What am I reading?  A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings Martin Luther King Jr https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13532185-a-gift-of-love Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paulo Freire Myra Bergman Ramos  (Translator) , Donaldo Macedo  (Introduction) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72657.Pedagogy_of_the_Oppr...

Episode 443: Making choices for the collective - a new ways to set new year intentions 29.12.2024

Why did I return Malcome Gladwell's Revenge of the Tipping Point?  How change has happened in the patterns of behaviours in Ireland over Christmas and how these impact the 'big systems' we feel are unchangeable?  What to change on setting your New Year resolutions, goals intentions, Make up your own mind, Revenge of the Tipping Point book link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216857785-revenge...

Episode 442: New Soundtrack to Christmas? 22.12.2024

Do we need a new soundtrack to Christmas that allows us to stay a little more aligned with the present?     Do the traditions cause anxiety?  Maximise the grief and sadness?  With Climate Change how many of us will have a white Christmas?  

Episode 441: The Paradoxes of Young Humans 18.12.2024

If we focused on paradoxes and not labels we'd embrace difference ... diversity and just simple human complex nature  I can't listen or read or accept any of the limiting views that are meant to be supporting this circus any longer.. how can more attention mean more challenges? It's because of the intention behind the attention.    

Episode 440: Power of the non-violent artist 12.12.2024

Why does every oppressive regime fear the writer? The creator?  I reflect on what is being exposed in Syria, and what we have seen taking place in Gaza and the West Bank.  Listen to the voices of Palestine: https://theunprecedentedtimes.net/articles/listen-to-the-voices-of-palestinenbsp Included: The Young H.G. Wells: Changing The World Claire Tomalin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57515294-t...

Episode 439: Elections, Captilisim, Socialism, Human Design Reflectors and Projectors - the Carters - How do they all go together? 03.12.2024

What have I been learning and researching in the pause?  H.G. Wells https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57515294-the-young-h-g-wells Rosalynn Carter https://www.audible.com/podcast/Rosalynn-Carter-Audio-Biography/B0CNP68Z8C?source_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp https://www.audible.com/pd/Jimmy-and-Rosalynn-Carter-Power-and-Human-Rights-1975-2020-Audiobook/B0B21VR7BC?source_code=ASS...

Episode 438: The spectres of society that feed on teens for self-gain 17.09.2024

Thank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work  Podcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology iBooks: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194 The world has worked out how to manipulate Teens (and their parents) by the sheer fact that they are driven by outward influence - everyon...

Episode 437: The real tragedy of school refusal, school anxiety and self-harm cycle 15.09.2024

The talented souls who are sent to the equivalent of daycare and who have so much to offer our humanity are the ones I can't forget.  The system is happy because they are occupied and I know the solutions for our future have been lost.  The course I have poured my soul into and all of the experiences I have learnt from over the last 15 years - all the success stories https://dr-naoise-oreilly.thin...

Episode 436: Why are Teens behaving as packs of Wolves? 09.09.2024

I keep asking this question - why? Why are teens moving as packs?  Seeking safety in numbers? Why carry knives?  Fear  then we ask the question why are they fearful? Then I look at the trajectory of what we have been presenting in real time to them online - with all the lies that make every civics and social studies class a complete lie.   

Episode 435: From the Top Down 01.09.2024

Who do we hold accountable for the distress we have seen on the streets? For the waves of online bullying?  How do we decide who's children should die?  How do we expect there to be a moral sanity as 'normal' in these contradictions?     

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