by Carmen Champion | Jul 2, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
My best friend comes from an abusive upbringing. Later she was in an abusive marriage. Now in her 50’s her parents who treated her so poorly lean on her to help them. Her and her siblings all have had different systems of processing their childhoods and some have made...
by Carmen Champion | Jun 25, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
I tried looking at groupings of friends we have in our life. Articles had some very interesting suggestions for categorization and didn’t include family, which can be the hardest category to forgive, so we definitely need to include them. One simple diagram used a...
by Carmen Champion | Jun 18, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
I struggle with the word ‘forgiveness’. The implication negates the difficult process by whittling it down to a single word. By doing so, it seems to undermine the power of the process. Some people are easier to forgive than others. Sometimes forgiveness takes a...
by Carmen Champion | May 1, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
So what does the light and dark show us? Much like strengthening a muscle, exercising the light and the dark invites us to become more sensitive and aware. To observe the delicate balance of both when we are in the moment so the moment doesn’t take us over. Exploring...
by Carmen Champion | Apr 24, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
There is something very loving about this idea of how yoga can approach you in ways that defy words. How it can be more a feeling than anything and when you hit the stride of it all you just move as though in a dream. Colors are different, and what you see and feel...
