Therapy Success with Kim Richardson

I have been ill these last three days. (Man flu.)

Being ill as a therapist raises more issues, it seems to me, than being ill normally does! Can we allow ourselves to get ill? What is the effect on our clients when we suddenly announce that tomorrow's appointment is cancelled? What will they think? Will they even survive? (The answer is almost always Yes.) What is the balance between looking after others and looking after ourselves? Can we afford to take time off in this way?

All sorts of questions which, paradoxically, being ill allows us the time and the space to consider. So that I find that now I am back at work I am approaching my work in a subtly different way - letting go a bit more, perhaps, stepping back in a therapeutically appropriate way, noticing more, not attaching so much of myself and my needs to my clients.

For it is certainly true that if we can't look after ourselves correctly we will struggle to look after others.

Kim Richardson
the therapists' coach
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