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Purple Psychology
by Dr Naoisé O'Reilly
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
Episodes
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Episode 619: walking my talk - it's a moment of complete pause
I've put everything down to prioritise care & simplicity Uplifting interview Alice Walker in Conversation with Gloria Steinem at the 92nd Street Y Alice Walker , Gloria Steinem & Wilma Mankiller...
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Episode 618: The very simple solution for teenagers to care for thier lives
The very simple question and care I have not read in responce to the teenage joyriding tragedies in Ireland over the past few weeks.
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Episode 617: The cost to mental health of people by fashion trends
I am horrifed by the pressures of high waisted trousers this year which are a white anorexia body type!
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Episode 616: if we destroy books - we destroy humanity
If you have a home library in the making I urge you to take care of it for future generations News Story https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2026/0810/1587288-galway-books-ai/ My substack https://substack.com/@thevioletwriter
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Episode 615: How to reconnect to yourself so you don't have to humiliate someone else
Flow writing: https://insighttimer.com/sarahblondin/video-guided-meditations/flow-writing-for-deep-self-listening My substack: https://thevioletwriter.substack.com
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Episode 614: Authenticity is for when you are dead
I don't have links to all the interviews snippets I have watched .. I urge you to go and see for yourself what real authenticity feels like in all that is there for us to listen and watch of Glen Hansard.
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Episode 613: Heartstopper vol 6 - the end with a lesson in communication
I love the emotional awareness of this whole series ... a must for every teen especially as they embark on a new chapter heading into final year of school or off to college ... The focus on communication in relationships really rocks! The mental health themes are covered so well .. not preachy or...
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Episode 612: Just stay in your lane disconnected
New Series of books: The last interviews https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/TLI/the-last-interview-series/
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Episode 611: collective shame, empanths, HSP, Lymphedema and self care routine
My self care routine as we move into Jupiter in Leo ... and the world of suffering that hasn't gone away The Audacity Experiment: Stop Outsourcing Your Instincts, Reclaim Your Sovereignty and Rewrite Your Reality Chris Corsini https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239780093-the-audacity-experiment...
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Episode 610: Stop Being stuck up how we consume content
I'm fed up reading that Gen Z lack the skills or content for education - you need to re-think how we consume content as we evole back to the species we are - not the one you think e should be .. for the last 3 generations it hasn't exactly proved successful or un-polarisiing.
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Episode 609: Gen Z are our golden light
Terns - Wonderful Life by Stephen Fry https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/251066555-wonderful-life-with-stephen-fry
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Episode 608: The Isolation of the Secure White Being
Books that are a must read: Salvation - Bell Hooks https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304502 All about love - Bell Hooks https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17607 Bone Black - Bell Hooks https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51394 INFJ podcast https://youtu.be/dEUdL2gwUIs?si=YBtVUsyE_JaXuTwN
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Episode 607: The worrying double standards of our Judicial system
I worry that we are applying really negative and unfair racial systems of policing and justice. It's been a grim month in Ireland that has shown we are piggy in the middle with the disgusting messaging from the UK on one side of us with their anti-migration policies and the US on the other side…
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Episode 606: Secureness - how big an impact exclusion has on your secureness
Secure book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/238766960-secure Secure: The Revolutionary Guide to Creating a Secure Life Amir Levine Angelique Kidjo and Yo Yo Ma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5r1i8utf9c
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Episode 605: We need to start calculating our data foorprint
In the same way we considered our carbon foorprint we need to consider our data footprint ... we need to consider what environmental destruction are product choices are making ...
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Episode 604: Flotilla victims - those wounds don't heal
The coverage of the Flotilla victims has annoyed me - the questions I don't hear asked ... it's too easy to sit behind a microphone ...
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Episode 603: Subscriptions are killing the collective consciousness
Why do we create? and why do we have these gates keepers ... we are limiting what peopel can read and form their own opinions on now not just by literacy ability but by privilege of paying for subscriptions ...
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Episode 602: Balancing with love of learning and the brilliance of humans
Wonderful Life with Stephen Fry https://www.audible.com/pd/Wonderful-Life-with-Stephen-Fry-Audiobook/B0GWRSNV1N?source_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp Hope Algelique Kidjo https://music.apple.com/ie/album/1880707227…
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Episode 601: Why Robots will replace teachers
Why I feel we need to sort out Primary School teaching and GP in our communities. I'm beyond hurt again by the lack of vocation of both in our society.
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Episode 600: The Unpacking of Change
Examples of brave Jewish people against Zioisim: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXyndJSIWg0/ https://www.instagram.com/p/DX1pmT5CCDn/?img_index=1 Britian being accountable for their sins? https://www.instagram.com/p/DXw5STcjOcE/ Gaza savign their heritage:...
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Episode 599: How did I change after the Pandemic?
The continued reflection .. why did I feel so little resonace with people after the pandemic?
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Episode 598: You are the person you were during the pandemic
This was an interesting point of refelction for me ... I might do the podcast on how I changed after and why... what I learnt
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Episode 597: I've ditched video podcasts (for now)
Two patreon spaces .... The creative journey with energy updates .. insights into my life and Buttons .. poetry and early access to journey to displaced souls writing ... https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology/ The violet writer Displaced Souls and Surviving Beauty writing:...
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Episode 596: Micheal Jackson Human Design Projector
Donations still welcome for podcast hosting: Stripe Donations Link: https://buy.stripe.com/28E7sL7Pt9EA19VbHI8AE00 Micheal Film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11378946/ Human Design: https://www.geneticmatrix.com/
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Episode 595: Balance can only be achieved if white men hang out?
Stripe Donations Link: https://buy.stripe.com/28E7sL7Pt9EA19VbHI8AE00
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Episode 594: The sins of the Allies in World War 2
The balancing piece of writing https://thevioletwriter.substack.com/p/displace-souls-and-surviving-beauty-ee7
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Episode 593: How to be a creators and just focus on creation
A real INFJ mode episode .. do we stop ourselves from growing because we don’t want the live someone else expects us to live? Can I have my work touch more people without destruction of the enviroment?
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Episode 592: The Nazi playbook for America and Israel is already written
Background to the Poem and Poet that stage managed Hitler into being “Dietrich Eckart wrote a poem that referred to a "Great One" or "Nameless One," expressing his belief in a coming "German Messiah" who would redeem the nation. “ “Dietrich Eckart, a significant figure in the early Nazi movement,...
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Episode 591: Healing Narcism
I don’t believe that we keep attracting situations to us because we are broken .. maybe it is because we have something different to offer? Healing from the Wounds of Narcissism - Individually and Collectively Heather Ensworth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrTVXso0RDY
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Episode 590: Everything I didn’t learn about the 2nd World War in colonial school
Are new unities being formed in the backdrop of chaos? A different news view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH-7wCIxIJ4
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Episode 589: Reenactment of the Easter Rising - when you know your life is in alignment with the environment
No one knows what will happen in this season of Earth … however there are moments to test very clearly if you are in alignment
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Episode 588: As we Mark the Christian Holliday how do You Justify Voting for Global Suffering?
One of the key ways we look at how we take care of each other is in infant mortality rates … they are increasing in Cuba because of your vote. 72% of White Christians voting for this global suffering. I ask you on Easter Sunday to justify this for yourselves. To sit in reflection of the state of...
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Episode 587: We need to be reminded of the purpose of NATO
It’s not about having military bases around the globe to facilitate war.. it was formed to prevent war and forge unity.
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Episode 586: Why do I stay on social media
inspiration … my biggest reason
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Episode 585: We can’t blame algorithms and bans will not solve how parents have abdicated responsibility
I found myself ranting that social media algorithms are not to blame.. humans lack of love of difference is yet again the root cause … parents must help their children to be secure enough to choose their own algorithms and Gen Z are driving huge change in their choices
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Episode 584: The cost of not healing generational patterns we didn’t heal in two world wars
Make sure you listen to the footnote for an important and somewhat ironic correction! I just came across Jame Baldwin speaking on the topic after I’d recorded the podcast https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTixtZ6jc73/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Film I pronounced wrong (sorry -...
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Episode 583: Seeking the silver lining for the climate crisis
Is this what the planet needs to discover how dependant we are on fossil fuels? Rabbit hole on lowering cortisol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgYiQ4ltB2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UMWuD34caQ
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Episode 582: My very complex thoughts on Iran
I urge you to look at all the history for yourself.. the impacts of western interference ... the old versus new ideals with the people stuck in the middle of an autortarian dictatorship or family dynasties ... The 1970s uprising impacts on women and free speach The Complete Persepolis graphic…
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Episode 581: Why are there so many sick students on university campuses?
A very simple series by Jamie Oliver on how to reset your health https://www.audible.com/pd/B0G2N4P6N9?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=library_overflow
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Episode 580: My antidote to the world right now - translated Asian Fiction
Links to all the books I mentioned … The Kamogawa Food Detectives Hisashi Kashiwai, Jesse Kirkwood (Translator) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154488299-the-kamogawa-food-detectives?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=41V3qxpC1E&rank=1 Before the Coffee Gets Cold Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey…
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Episode 579: The INFJ and the avoidant - the ultimate head f**k
INFJs can really lose themselves in relationships and turn everything on themselves. We have such extreme forgiveness and patience that it's shocking when we run out - when we need change and the patterns keep repeating. It's too easy for us to turn all the experiences on ourselves and feel…
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Episode 578: The Violet Writer - A new Unconditional Space
The Violet Writer https://substack.com/@thevioletwriter Patreon: https://patreon.com/thevioletwriter https://thevioletwriter.substack.com/p/displace-souls-and-surviving-beauty?r=73q1xq By training, I am an observational scientist. I spend my life witnessing everyday human behaviour and trying to...
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Episode 577: Can we talk about the hypocrisy of not wanting a name to have Jewish associations?
The colonial hub in the Middle-East called the Middle-East based on another Colonial land .. Can we decide no one deserves to die? Surely all the religions agree on this fact?
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Episode 576: The Rose Field is a victim of capitalisation somewhat ironically
The world is so disjointed for us now as creatives and ironically this book even though it wanted a massage of what is swallowed in progress and order is also a victim of the writer’s integrity … it’s not a teen book and it’s not accessible to the readers the earlier series it’s born from …. I...
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Episode 575: The ultimate ego marker -vegetarianism is dying
The world feels like a soup you couldn’t possibly create an unconditioned reality in right now
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Episode 574: Current Manifestation Energy
It’s an energy we haven’t had for a while… a theme of being careful with your words Readings with Jon https://youtu.be/8GWtyUoxYo8?si=HwcENsTqPn42Jbl3
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Episode 573: Grave of the Fireflies - We’ve forgotten Gaza
This animation may be based in Japan … however all I could think about the whole way through was Gaza Grave of the Fireflies https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095327/
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Episode 572: Meet Buttons
The bundle of joy
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Episode 571: We can't build values from the top; only the beginnings
Barack Obama Interview https://youtu.be/uI-hgSE5QIw?si=HAMO36uveaCDV7Ck
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Episode 570: I wish I wasn’t so connected to the collective consciousness sometimes
or at least realised in advance of speaking that I am … I certainly didn’t mean yesterday’s thoughts to be on the band wagon of Black History Month!
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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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