Since starting the website over 12 years ago, and the journal almost as long, it is interesting to look at how it has changed since then. Here is a short history that i have released in the newsletter.
The Caring Palms website started in 2000 before it was even Caring Palms. That name came when massage was added. Caring Palms was originally Reiki Holistic Healing and was all about Reiki and all other energy modalities that I did. Some will remember the gray swirling background of the front page and the gray pages of everything else. (In converting from the old format, I still found a half dozen or so pages still on the gray background.)
When I graduated massage school, my wife came up with the name Caring Palms which I registered as a business name and website address. This gave form to the CaringPalms.com website with a yellow background which was primarily massage. Because I was concerned that people would react adversely to Reiki (as many did not know what it was and were afraid of it), I still kept the Reiki site under ReikiHolisticHealing.com.
At some point I decided to no longer give into my fear, and combined both sites into one, Caring Palms. I decided that if some people could not accept what I do, then I would attract those that can. Rather than be two separate web sites, they were combined into one, but separate sides. At this time, both sides got face lifts. The massage side got a red patterned background and the Reiki side had a blue one. this combined with a new front page with pictures taken here by a professional photographer made the site what it was up until last week.
The only change had been the addition of a third side for Continuing Education. Since Caring Palms was adding more classes as a provider for massage therapists, it needed to be separated out from the Reiki side.
That all changed last week when the latest version of the site went live (but still not 100% complete). As of today, everything is there and working. There will be a couple changes coming soon which include a new menu and the cleanup of the journal transfer problems.
At any rate, please enjoy the new site, and let us know what you think about it.