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S14 Ep 551Episode 551: Consequences of your actions
well … Happy New Year … while some people were breading hate … I was cooking and eating food with my family & friends

S13 Ep 550Episode 550: The world feels a little incapable of Love right now
I can make excuses for the energy … for people not being able to receive .. however the contort and the blocking of beauty I struggle to make excuses for .. Teen Book: The Apple Tart of Hopehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142318557-the-apple-tart-of-hope-by-moore-fitzgerald-sarah-2015-paperback?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=qsMca7wf28&rank=2

S13 Ep 549Episode 549: the winter solstice - grianstad an gheimhridh
It literally means the stopping of the sun …

S13 Ep 548Episode 548: It’s an impossible energy to create in …
I’ve never felt so jaded at the end of a year.. why I’m workign my way back through all my notes and journals..

S13 Ep 547Episode 547: Why I send Christmas Cards to my Students?
I need someone to wake up to the realities of the trauma of internment and hunger strikes and not allow the British government to tip the North back into troubles … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Irish_hunger_strikeI’m reflecting greatly on the themes of unconditional love …

S13 Ep 546Episode 546: Mothers and Children in bathrooms - the military operation
I don’t think labels are ‘born’ - I think we create them … like some personalities require privacy more than others Does a natural body function need to be such a problem? When do you become independent enough for your own toilet function?

S13 Ep 545Episode 545: What does it take for you to be content as an artist?
Yo-Yo Ma and freinds https://www.audible.com/pd/B0FXHDQX92?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow

S13 Ep 544Episode 544: Sponsorship for Christmas FM in Ireland not resonating
I asked a search engine. - why are people boycotting Coca Cola?People are boycotting Coca-Cola due to concerns over its alleged involvement in unethical labor practices, environmental issues, and its operations in disputed regions, particularly in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Additionally, rumors about the company laying off Latino workers and reporting them to immigration officials have fueled calls for a boycott among Latino communities.I can’t believe anyone in Ireland going around an Irish supermarket feels Coca Cola is the right sponsor for ‘the magic of Christmas’Christ under the Rubble:https://youtu.be/Q-1brSPn66w?si=FVNeuagt9CZmPkpF

S13 Ep 543Episode 543: Christmas Reading List for all the ages
Teen and Adult:AudiobooksThe Rose Field - 3rd Dust Book by Philip Pullman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228587642-the-rose-fieldBrigands & Breadknives (Audio or hardback) Travis Baldreehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222376572-brigands-breadknivesAdult: (Her books tend to be good audiobooks too) The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop by Fannie Flagghttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51457328-the-wonder-boy-of-whistle-stop?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_14Non - Fiction Adult:Book of Lives by Margret Atwood https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223854625-book-of-lives?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_13Adult Crime:The KIlling Stones by Anne Cleeveshttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222376507-the-killing-stones?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_14Poetry:The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998Nikki Giovannihttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39102.The_Collected_Poetry_1968_1998Teen Graphic Novel:Heartstopper 5 Alice Osemanhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53344030-heartstopper?ref=nav_sb_ss_5_12Children’s Christmas:The Christmas Pighttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57730258-the-christmas-pig?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_17The Good Bear by Sarah Leanhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52591098-the-good-bear?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13Past Editions of what am I reading for Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/collection/1535378?view=expanded

S13 Ep 542Episode 542: Please bring back Orasi sugar free milk … below this is a conversation about balanced plant based diets
I think it is shocking how uneducated we are about what vitamins we need on a plant based diet.. everyone talks about vitamin B12 … but not Vitamin D or A Or can orasi remarket themselves with a barista sugar free milk? Like just take the ingredients of the no sugar drink and pour it into the barista packet!!! https://orasivegetale.com/en-us/https://orasivegetale.com/en-us/almond/

S13 Ep 541Episode 541: Below the Cruelty of Control
I’m shocked at how many people would like us to return to cruelty in school ..

S13 Ep 540Episode 540: Kindness as a curse
How you don’t become bitter with the world .. in acceptance Excellent Teen book on this topic:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142318557-the-apple-tart-of-hope-by-moore-fitzgerald-sarah-2015-paperback?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=fbLtxfYULv&rank=2

S13 Ep 539Episode 539: Change from Within - Point Practice for change
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S13 Ep 538Episode 538: Grief is the price you pay for love in a world that seems cruel
True origins of this quote “Grief is the price we pay for love” Colin Murray Parkes 1928– English psychiatristWe all have a role to play as the world exposes a cruelty in humanity that I believe we are re-writing in real time .. we have to witness the cruelty and play our part and what practices we have to stay in our own truth … executive order list:https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump%27s_executive_orders_and_actions,_2025Ottoman Empire role in the saving Irish people during the famine I did fact check this … as it was instagram … https://www.instagram.com/p/DRgp9DnjSbP/

S13 Ep 537Episode 537: Many people only experience unconditional love from animals not humans
I’d never considered why people might find grief of an animal harder than a human and feel guilty for this fact …
S13 Ep 536Episode 536: Mamdani and Trump … it takes a lot to find middle ground
It’s a lot less work to take sides and be polarised

S13 Ep 535Episode 535: Allowing Children a Childhood to Heal Generational Pain
what it takes to allow children to have a childhood and form their own compassion.

S13 Ep 534Episode 534: French Film Lover - colours of time
Colours of time:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31411349/https://youtu.be/_sTdOm2BID8?si=nJMdH667geOCuLyiCedric Klapisch - Interview:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjaHzgHZJIQFederico Fellinihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_FelliniStill life book:https://goodreads.com/book/show/57001545-still-life
S13 Ep 533Episode 533: Learning from Nuremberg
There will be a lot of resources to this podcast please take the time to go through them … Ben Ferencz, the last living Nuremberg prosecutor, has died at age 103 | 60 Minuteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-uxyrHJ_mE&list=WLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-8m5YHt__4Nuremberg Trials :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trialsThe impacts on the German people:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy21VoWlxAsDouglas Kelleyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Kelley#PublicationsHis warning for Americahttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nuremberg-psychiatrist-had-a-warning-for-today-we-spoke-to-his-son/ar-AA1QEj83Nuremberg interview:with Doulas Kelleyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSvucjc52VI&list=WLRobert Jackson - look at hsi supreme court caseshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._JacksonJack El-Hai on researching "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist": Were the Nazis mad or bad?Book that started this whole film:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aROZke1Kj4&list=WL&index=4

S13 Ep 532Episode 532: Return to sharing - the balance between apathy and awareness
Japan’s Low Desire Societyhttps://youtu.be/Koow0Q6EiXU?si=Wf1HzflJOG_bweYNJungs thoughts on sharing “Carl Jung believed that the constant need to share our experiences can distance us from our authentic selves and hinder true self-understanding. He suggested that inner silence and reflection are more valuable for personal growth than the urge to narrate our lives to others.”

S13 Ep 531Episode 531: A week off podcasting - surfing the current energy
what I would prescribe right now is play … whatever that is for you … Rumi poem - night of unionhttps://www.poetryverse.com/rumi-poems/night-union

S13 Ep 530Episode 530: How a Community approach can eradicate Extreme poverty - lessons from Kerala
In a world where the richest nation can’t support their own people… One news article of many:https://scroll.in/article/1088384/beyond-statistics-the-more-important-lesson-from-keralas-poverty-eradication-initiative

S13 Ep 529Episode 529: As we approach the various religious festivals - I feel the hypocrisy more than ever
I’m honest for me it’s about the lights .. generosity and lights Christ in Rubble - I year ago https://youtu.be/Md_hw_A-oIs?si=p7AxZzt7310LwI9F

S13 Ep 528Episode 528: When you can’t write … read and then read some more
Why I read up to 15 books at a time … Follow me on goodreads if you like:https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/51352848-naois-o-reilly

S13 Ep 527Episode 527: Benchmarking - why I re-read the same book every November
What does it take for you to press reset? Have you created the life you want to be living? Fannie Flagg - A redbird christm,as https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199532.A_Redbird_Christmas?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=wl4DHfUfm8&rank=1

S13 Ep 526Episode 526: What is the point of being a trillionaire?
I worry that the same type of personalities will be drawn to the sheer success of jiust being a trillionaire Without considering the impacts .. without needing to care about the individuals role and place in society .. just someone to feed their machine The coral reef: https://youtu.be/7oy-viAbKSM?si=bSYirpf2_6Q3aDu4https://youtu.be/mQ10xBl8XMQ?si=R615iJ_yWM3U3N-Whttps://youtu.be/eNqbSi_6KdA?si=cLd0JVOUKMme6DQX

S13 Ep 525Episode 525: Introduction to John Moriarty & Manchán Magan
I’m sorry I couldn’t find Manchán Magan name in my brain! I din’t want to pronounce wrong too .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UsrWkI5LZs The podcast series:https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CK9GY1RP?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow Introduction to poems of Brendan Kennelly: https://poetryarchive.org/poet/brendan-kennelly/
S13 Ep 524Episode 524: We need to stop interchanging socialism and leftism - we need a new political focus; humanity
I worry that leftist and socialist parties are so desperate to be just elected rather than speak to their core values that they are willing to speak to a far right propaganda just for votes. It’s no better than what the ‘other’ team are doing! One article on the differences between socialism and leftismhttps://thisvsthat.io/leftist-vs-socialismI also simply typed in for definitions on each.

S13 Ep 523Episode 523: Rest Day - after the wrong timezone
It hasn’t all settled yet .. however I have this double feeling of joy but also doom as I know the wheels will really come off now … I’m not ready to talk though (yet)

S13 Ep 522Episode 522: Ageism in the spotlight instead of personality disorders
I’ll be doing a bigger podcast soon where i look at terms such as socialism .. leftism and so on … Interview where Dr John Gartner looks at Trump's mental health … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzz_xOjwsH8It all not done much for ageism and particularly for older men! Connect through Patreon - it has a good messenger app! https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology

S13 Ep 521Episode 521: Noise of the world; The fragments we aren’t meant to be able to put together … if you don’t want migration; make the world safer?
A projection Shuffle example… does the vice president of a country not have more to do with.. such as aid to Jamaica? Join my Patreon for free posts .. I don’t post on social media https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychologyClip:https://youtu.be/nEoD6CRMb6w?si=V_eRcqyiCCWOUBy9

S13 Ep 520Episode 520: Role of the media
the media has not changed your responsibility with the shifting landscape of the media internet world

S13 Ep 519Episode 519: Why do women feel so angst every half term?
Life has in fact got easier for women (in an Irish context)so why is this not reflected? Who’s expectations are they feeding? And what is it like to grow up as a child feeling such a burden?

S13 Ep 517Episode 517: Why outliers don’t speak in group
Will we ever create a world with no outliers?

S13 Ep 518Episode 518: Why expression and creation matters so much for transmutation.
There are many more options on what to do with what we are absorbing that we think .. what is your form of expression? Why are you doing it?
S13 Ep 506Episode 506: The Projection Shuffle
The new interview style that is being absorbed into our society as a disgusting role model

S13 Ep 516Episode 516: Ireland’s first grassroots campaign president
Who started all this flag stuff?

S13 Ep 515Episode 515: Energy responsibility
Pressing reset by going into the city.. the conversation around energy hygiene Why Podomatic are fabulous!

S13 Ep 514Episode 514: Energy Battles of the light; I’d settle for a lack of interference
I like to have somewhere to go where everyone had open centres and a massive heart space … and didn’t make it weird .. dogs don’t make openness weird and they get energy and the unseen way of moving in the world Jane Goodall and dogs:https://www.instagram.com/p/DP1fsx0kRLT/
S13 Ep 513Episode 513: Apple Video Podcasts having a moment…
Apple video podcasts are not loading properly … especially some of the earlier episodes .. I think today’s is loading … You can always watch these on podomatic:https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/purplepsychology

S13 Ep 512Episode 512: Keeping Jane Goodall’s legacy going
I love the solgan ‘It started with Jane and it continues with you’https://secure.janegoodall.org

S13 Ep 511Episode 511: Children can’t hold hands? Why?
that writer’s life where we take inspiration from everywhere and anywhere

S13 Ep 510Episode 510: We need to focus on Abuse and Corruption
I worry that we are being distracted .. and the INFJ in me wonders who is really organising this … One option of independent news … find your own choices https://youtu.be/IwS7c8NxbVc?si=eXxLQRb-Zk-BRFwK

S13 Ep 509Episode 509: When politicians don’t condescend at you …
I’m noticing that for the 1st time a candidates posters have not been vandalised ..

S13 Ep 508Episode 508: 50 year ago was great?
Based on a piece by Bernie Sanders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lolm1jiIomo

S13 Ep 507Episode 507: Using audiobooks to chill
Two of my survival routines .. audiobooks and compression therapy

S13 Ep 505Episode 505: Why am I recording such a non-sigma podcast?
Subscriber podcasts found here https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/purple-psychology/id981266976?ign-mpt=uo%3D10

S13 Ep 504Episode 504: The disconnect in the wider world
I follow the moon to put out work and it’s in the wrong spot right now for me to want to record thoughts ..

S13 Ep 503Episode 503: Part B - The sheer disgustingness of a 61 ton graveyard
That 61 tons of rubble is a grave yard

S13 Ep 502Episode 502: The world is disgustingly racist
If humanity doesn’t unravel this thread … I don’t honestly know where we are going