Norah Finn Therapy

24/02/2026

I love Instagram, the interaction I have here with the followers, the love, the kindness, the well wishing, the support, the encouragement that people give each other. Watching the great work people are doing within their communities. It lifts my heart.

Negative or mean comments, I delete and block, immediately. If you have nothing kind to say, I don’t wish to engage with you. I have a right to choose who sees my content, and to control the content I watch. I stopped explaining myself years ago.

Sometimes, I get messages that are out of the ordinary. I have an ethical and professional responsibility to report these messages to the relevant authorities. I screenshot every message, account, email, etc, and I take those directly to the Gardai for them to do their job.

Over the years, I have found the Gardai to be so helpful. They always thoroughly investigate all parties involved.

Do not let the dust settle on these things. Do not communicate, engage, have an opinion, or interact, except to say that you will be informing the Gardai. That is the correct and ethical thing to do, for everyone involved.

Hand it over, There are laws in place to protect people, and the general public. Act immediately. Go to your nearest police station with all your evidence. They do, and will, take these issues very seriously. 💜

24/02/2026

YOU ARE AN EMPOWERED HUMAN BEING. Creating the life you want is solely in your own hands. The path you travel is determined by you and the decisions you make. It’s the opposite of letting other people make decisions for you. You, and only you, are responsible for how your life progresses.

No one woke up one day and had a great life. No one gets lucky. If they have what they want, they put the hard work in and continuously maintain what they have created. Mental health is about doing what we need to do everyday to keep our life moving in the direction we want it to go.

If you get up everyday and put the effort in that’s needed to live well, I salute you. If you don’t, you can start today, if you choose to. A step at a time. Every step counts and gets you closer to where and how you wish to live your life. You can do it.

Therapy supports us in unravelling the areas of our life that we are allowing to keep us stuck. Therapy is you choosing YOU! 💜

21/02/2026

20/02/2026

BE THAT ONE PERSON. Be the one who reaches out when someone is in pain. It doesn’t take much, just a message, a call, a simple “Hey, I’m worried about you. Are you okay?”

That small act won’t fix what they’re going through, but it can change something just as important, their sense of aloneness. And sometimes, that’s all it takes to keep someone from falling off a cliff they’re already too close to.

Ask yourself - How would I want to be treated if the roles were reversed? Then do that. Be that person.

You don’t need perfect words. You don’t need a solution.

Just show up. It matters more than you think. 💜

19/02/2026

THERAPY is a space where we learn to take responsibility for our own life. Our own feelings. Our own responses. Once you’re an adult, no one can “make” you feel or do anything, and no one is responsible for how another feels or acts. You are responsible for you. Your thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Taking personal responsibility is a tough job. We live in a world that is filled with blame, but blame is fruitless. It keeps us a victim and does not invite us to grow our emotional intelligence. It’s not always easy to look inwards and own where we could have behaved better or differently to meet our needs. It’s easier to blame. But it will get us nowhere. If we don’t correct our own behaviour, we’ll just keep repeating the same patterns in our life.

Sometimes people perceive that Therapy is about a Therapist telling you how someone in your life is mistreating you. That’s not therapy. No therapist has a right to comment on another persons behaviour, and certainly not on the behaviour of someone they’ve never met. That is unethical practice. The role of the therapist is to create an environment where the client can take effective control of their own life. To look at patterns of relating that perhaps formed in childhood that do not serve us today.

The goal of therapy is for clients to look at self. What they want out of life. How they relate in their relationships. Meeting their own needs. Taking personal responsibility. It is not the therapists job to tell them how life is unfair on them. Perhaps it is, and was, but the role of the therapist is to support the client towards self empowerment and change.

Looking at our own failings takes courage. Until we do, nothing changes. 💜

19/02/2026

EMBRACE THE FERAL IN YOU! The part of you that is not caught up is how people will judge you. They’ll judge you anyway. Make sure it’s a show worth watching.

Be shameless. You can’t be shamed when you’re shameless. Get rid of that toxic shame within you. That’s called inner freedom. 💜

18/02/2026

THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN in Catholic Ireland when we get 40 days to sacrifice any bit of joy we have in our life to remember that our saviour died for our sins? We should be ashamed of ourselves! Look at the sinners we are? We were raised in these shame based families too. “After all the sacrifices I made to raise you, that’s the thanks I get”??? Familiar? And we wonder why we’re steeped in shame as a culture?

When we face into these shame based messages we received, we can become shameless if we choose to. The freedom of it. I’ve rebranded lent for myself. I really can honestly save myself, I don’t want anyone suffering for me, I never asked anyone to do that for me. I’m fully responsible for myself. I’m very proud of all I’ve done for myself in this life that makes me the woman I am today. I’m a kind hearted woman who’ll help others where I can, and when I’m not a kind hearted woman, because I embrace my humanity, I’ll hold my hand up and say I’m sorry. I laugh daily and try to bring a bit of lightheartedness to this world.

My Lent looks like this - 40 days to remember how beautifully shameless I am. 40 days to remember that shame based culture I overcame - not an easy task! 40 days to consciously do something absolutely lovely for myself every day. My 40 day ritual of giving myself an act of self love when I wake every single day, if nothing else but to say to myself “good morning pal, we’re going on an adventure today”.

This morning, it’s a beautiful sweetened cup of cacao while getting back under the covers to savour it and watch the morning news. I’m excited for how much gratitude and love I’ll be reminding myself I have for myself during my 40 day ritual.

I wish you a shame free Lent filled with abundance and joy. Happy Lent. 💜

17/02/2026

YES, IT IS HEALTHY TO DISCUSS OR**SM - it’s even healthier to have plenty of them. But good s*x can only happen where good communication takes place. And between consenting adults, s*xual intimacy cannot be left to chance. Whatever gender preference, or no gender preference, s*x and or**sm and s*xual intimacy needs to be discussed between two people engaging in the act.

We discuss every other part of a relationship, and avoid discussing how we s*xually relate together? What we want, our needs, our desires? That just doesn’t make sense. It comes from shame based thinking, conditioning, messages in our families, society, culture, etc. S*x and s*xual intimacy is beautiful. Why on this earth would we not discuss it?

It can be uncomfortable to discuss if we have being trained not to do that. But that’s an area that we’ll all personally benefit from greatly when we untrain ourself from that draconian thinking that was placed on us. We are s*xual beings.

People who talk s*x, do s*x. People who talk or**sm, have or**sms. Don’t deprive yourself from this very primal and innate survival need. Besides bringing two people closer together, s*x is the best fun we can have without laughing, and good s*x needs good communication.

Therapy supports us in exploring every part of our being. Exploring our s*xuality is a part of therapy. A therapist knows that it is so important for their client to explore every part of their wellbeing. They are comfortable talking about s*x. They will never shame or embarrass you. They went through that process too and know it can be uncomfortable. Remember, it’s not just you. S*xual shame is built into our culture. Refuse to allow you to deny yourself s*xual freedom.

Don’t carry shame around such a beautiful act. Let’s remove stigma and shame based thinking. S*x and or**sm are a natural part of life. To not explore and to hold yourself back from true intimacy, is a form of self abuse. Or**sm is a beautiful gift to give to self, and to share in this world.

Don’t carry shame. Be shameless! It’s so much more fun 💜

*x **sm

16/02/2026

BASIC INTENSIVE TRAINING IN CHOICE THEORY.
DATE: April 2026, Sat 11th, Sun 12th, Sat 25th, and Sun 26th.
TIME COMMITMENT : 4 training days. Total 30 hours.
TIME: 10am-5.30pm daily.
INSTRUCTOR: Norah Finn, Founder, Snr Instructor, MCTI Instructor.
VENUE: Ace Enterprise Park,
Clondalkin, Dublin 22.
COST: €395
Ph: Norah 0851277002 to book your place.

CHOICE THEORY is humanistic psychology, founded by psychiatric Dr William Glasser. Glasserian Psychology is a study of the mind, the brain, why and how we operate as we do as humans.

Empower yourself. Knowledge is power. Choice Theory could possibly be the best gift you’ll ever give to yourself.

Choice Theory ……… because you’re worth it!

If you have decided to do this training, places do fill up very quickly, so it may be an idea to book asap. 🌻

www.choicetheoryireland.com

16/02/2026

COMPARISON AND COMPETITION are two traits that are detrimental to your happiness.

If you want to be happy and content, live a “non-comparative and non-competitive” life. You won’t do it like anyone else, you are not anyone else, you are YOU. Do it in your way, with your own unique style.

What’s stopping you? Fear? Fear of what? Of how others may perceive you if it fails or goes belly up! At least you’ll have tried. That makes you a huge success. And sometimes, we have to fail so we can see how to improve it. It’s the only way we’ll learn.

Talk about your ideas, it’s great to go that, but with the best will in this world, that’s where they’ll stay, in your mind, as “ideas”. We gotta get up and try it. We gotta get into action to make those ideas materialise.

What’s stopping you? What if I told you - absolutely nothing, except your own mind.

Today, will you think or will you do? That choice is totally yours. Choose well!

Therapy supports us in untangling the unconscious patterns that keep us stuck. 💜

16/02/2026

CHOICE THEORY TEACHES US that we have 5 Basic Needs. If our needs are unmet, and we want our needs met, we have two ways of handing that. We'll get frustrated and blame everyone else for our unmet needs, or, we'll get up and do what we need to do to meet our needs.

Two choices, two different ways of approaching life's difficulties that arise. Whichever you choose is fine. You are responsible for how you respond in this world. One choice will lead you to misery, the other choice will be the start of your sorting out the problem. Which will you choose?

That's called personal empowerment. It's hard at times, but, it's hard to stay stuck too. You get to choose your hard!

Which will you choose?