Finnegan Kathleen MA LPC

12/13/2025

Asking “What do I need?” is not selfish—it’s self-compassion in action.
When we truly care for ourselves, we’re better able to care for others. This question is like a compass bringing us closer to alignment with our values.

🌱 Next time you feel stressed or overwhelmed, try asking: What do I need right now? Then honor your answer.

12/13/2025

Each one of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Most of the activity in society is subconsciously designed to quell the voice crying in the wilderness within you. The mystic Thomas a Kempis said that when you go out into the world, you return having lost some of yourself. Until you learn to inhabit your aloneness, the lonely distraction and noise of society will seduce you into false belonging, with which you will only become empty and weary. When you face your aloneness, something begins to happen. Gradually, the sense of bleakness changes into a sense of true belonging. This is a slow and open-ended transition but it is utterly vital in order to come into rhythm with your own individuality. In a sense this is the endless task of finding your true home within your life. It is not narcissistic, for as soon as you rest in the house of your own heart, doors and windows begin to open outwards to the world. No longer on the run from your aloneness, your connections with others become real and creative. You no longer need to covertly scrape affirmation from others or from projects outside yourself. This is slow work; it takes years to bring your mind home.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the book, Eternal Echoes
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County Clare Cottage, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

12/06/2025

I have been asked… “Given impermanence what is important in this life?” for me, it all comes down to compassion and coffee. But I’d love to hear what other people hold close to their hearts and desires.

11/15/2025

10/19/2025

Our friends among the dead now live where time and space are transfigured. They behold us now in ways they never could have when they lived beside us on earth. Because they live near the source of destiny, their blessings for us are accurate and penetrating, offering a divine illumination not available according to the calculations of the given visible world. Perhaps one of the surprises of death will be a retrospective view of the lives we lived here and to see how our friends among the dead clothed us in weave after weave of blessing.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the books, To Bless the Space Between Us (US) / Benedictus (Europe)
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County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

10/18/2025

hope springs eternal

11/21/2024

https://suzette-misrachi.medium.com/trump-how-can-trauma-help-explain-his-die-hard-support-163d16977fd3

On 22nd July, 2020, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) radio presenter, Fran Kelly, asked US President Donald Trump’s niece…

11/06/2024

06/20/2024

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Rumi

10/23/2023

This is a Remarkable interview well worth the time.