Finnegan Kathleen MA LPC

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.

09/15/2023

https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/arduous-work-of-treating-narcissism-therapists-guide-0112174

08/27/2023

bilateral stimulation is also a therapeutic intervention that can help with trauma from one’s history where dissociation may have begun.

Dissociation is a way to escape overwhelming situations. We ALL dissociative to some degree. If you have ever driven home and you know the route so well so you check out to the music in the car....and all of a sudden you realize you're home...that's a low level of dissociation. It is being on autopilot. Common forms of dissociation can also be seen in daydreaming as well....or perhaps creating a different reality to protect against pain.

When children are tortured, they may check out to create a different reality. Some children who grow up in high stress, high conflict, or high trauma environments split off the knowledge, emotions, and feelings from these experiences. An extreme form of splitting happens when a different state/self/part/alter/member, etc is made to survive the trauma.

This natural defense mechanism protects the child and allows them to survive into adulthood. It allows the child to grow up in an apparently "normal" day-to-day life. What ends up happening is amnesia from horrific events, awaiting resolution. It unfortunately can also leave parts of you stuck in unresolved experiences. This is a protective mechanism. If the child didn't dissociate, they would have suffered deeply psychologically.

Therapy can help you deal with dissociation, regardless of where you are on the spectrum. It can help you find grounding techniques and help you cope better with dissociative episodes. Somatic therapies, especially, can assist you in connecting to your body, sensations, gestures, movement, etc that can help process the unresolved trauma that is in the body. EMDR is also an important tool that could help you work through memories of traumatic events. Healing is possible!