Therapy Success with Kim Richardson

Me - a blogger? I never thought it possible! But here it is, my first posting.

What has led me to this point? Well, two things I suppose.

First, a growing realisation of how useful the internet can be to make contact, communicate, link up. In my case it's where the professional and the personal interact - I can talk about business-related issues in a different tone to the way I would in a coaching session. And I can listen to what others say from all over the globe. I don't think I have let in the amazing nature of this communication, and its impact. It's all too easy to dismiss it as an overcomplication, an unnecessary technologicalisation (new word - won't catch on!) of the ordinary. Actually it's the chance to do the opposite - to bring the human back into our work, and widen its impact.

The second thing that has led to this point is a very moving blog that a friend has just started to share the thoughts and feelings he has while his partner goes through the diagnosis and then treatment for breast cancer. His blog is both something very human and open, but also very functional - it lets lots of people know what's going on in a simple, easy way, and allows others to add their thoughts and prayers without badgering the family over the phone. How brilliant is that! Another example of how the internet can be both human and useful at the same time.

Any thoughts about your own attitude to blogs or the internet, especialy if you are a therapist and used to face to face contact, would be of great interest to me.

Kim