by Carmen Champion | Dec 4, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Lifestyle, Weekly Letter
My husband does this thing when he’s overwhelmed, he starts to romanticize a place where he was more comfortable. For example, sometimes when he’s overwhelmed with the house, he will talk about missing our tiny apartment that was easy to maintain (and easy to mess). I...
by Carmen Champion | Aug 22, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
When I first started teaching yoga, other teachers warned me there are students who don’t like to use yoga props. To those students, props show a weakness or an inability. I was baffled, as I was being trained the props give the person MORE access not less. And yet,...
by Carmen Champion | Jul 9, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
My friend had a very elderly dog who was demonstrating they were in some pain and losing their quality of life. My friend was faced with the impossible decision of whether it was time to put her beloved pup down. She and her husband went to their vet to discuss all...
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...
