Francine Bonjour-Carter

Francine Bonjour-Carter :: Visual Journaling & Somatic Awareness Practitioner ::

This week's café writing.I love being in my own world with a coffee shop's background noises
03/13/2026

This week's café writing.
I love being in my own world with a coffee shop's background noises

From my last newsletter - New Seasons, New Question:The turning of the seasons is a reminder that we change just as our ...
03/12/2026

From my last newsletter - New Seasons, New Question:

The turning of the seasons is a reminder that we change just as our environment, daylight, temperature, and age.

Spring is traditionally, and logically, associated with renewal. And it is a good time to ask ourselves:
- “What do I want to renew?”
(Not everything needs to be renewed).
- How am I different this season, compared to last Spring, or a few years ago?

And always, taking a fresh perspective on the eternally relevant question:
“What do I need?”

Find thelink to the whole newsletter in the comments.

This week's café writing ...A moment of quiet, slipping into the liminal with a London Fog
03/06/2026

This week's café writing ...
A moment of quiet, slipping into the liminal with a London Fog

My next Creative Workshop is open for registration!Join me at The Bookery Coffee House on Tuesday, March 31st, to celeb...
03/05/2026

My next Creative Workshop is open for registration!
Join me at The Bookery Coffee House on Tuesday, March 31st, to celebrate Spring.

This is a creative and fun evening where you create the cover of a journal that will be your companion for this Spring season. We will begin with a meditative practice to be "in the flow" and center our creativity. Then we will explore simple mixed-media techniques such as mark-making, collage, and hand sewing to create the cover of our journal.

This is a space centered on finding meaning, creating connection, and taking time for yourself. 💖

- All materials and instructions will be provided, and no prior experience is required
- Registration & details in bio and in the comments

A deep journaling practice is not just about the words. It’s about embodied meaning and sensations:Writing upside downWh...
03/04/2026

A deep journaling practice is not just about the words. It’s about embodied meaning and sensations:
Writing upside down
When trying to make sense of my experiences,
Hand sewing notes in my language of origin
When childhood memories resurface,
Or writing in a labyrinthine shape
When working with the myth of the Minotaur.

Every dimension, every symbolic gesture and intention participates to our personal deepening.
To the development of Soul.

Insight without embodiment doesn’t integrate.And embodiment without meaning doesn’t transform.There are bridges between ...
02/26/2026

Insight without embodiment doesn’t integrate.
And embodiment without meaning doesn’t transform.

There are bridges between our psyche, our body, our emotions, and our identities.
When I first started my somatic awareness journey, I had no idea where they were and thought mine were broken. But I realized these bridges were hidden by my internal jungle of beliefs, constraints, personal history, dissociation, and compartmentalization.

To reclaim them is to experience myself as a Living Body.

Art always starts with questions, and I like to tuck mine in little pockets in my art books.I never find or need answers...
02/19/2026

Art always starts with questions, and I like to tuck mine in little pockets in my art books.

I never find or need answers; the exploration of the questions and the gentle meandering through their territory is the process.

Questions open doors,
Answers close them.

It always starts with questions, and I like to put them in little pockets in my art books.I never find or need answers; ...
02/17/2026

It always starts with questions, and I like to put them in little pockets in my art books.

I never find or need answers; the exploration of the questions and the gentle meandering through their territory are always illuminating.

Our first monthly peri/menopause support group happened last night and it was so nourishing and heartfelt.We explored s...
02/17/2026

Our first monthly peri/menopause support group happened last night and it was so nourishing and heartfelt.

We explored some of the many questions and shifts that occur during this time of a woman’s life: relationships, identity, emotional and physical changes.

There are so many thresholds, and without reflection, we rush through them and lose ourselves.
Without embodiment, we stay fragmented.

We can navigate these life transitions better with community, meaning, and connection.

This will be a monthly event. Next Support Group is on Monday, March 9th at 7pm. Follow and get on their newsletter for all the details!

Nurturing love with creative flow.💗💗💗
02/14/2026

Nurturing love with creative flow.
💗💗💗

Most people see images as something we create.I experience them as something that comes to me.They carry movement, ident...
02/12/2026

Most people see images as something we create.
I experience them as something that comes to me.
They carry movement, identity, emotional memory, sometimes a life transition taking shape.
They bring a message.
They form a bridge.

Let’s reframe:
We are not “being creative”.
We are listening.

I am nearing the end of a three-month somatic trauma therapies training, finishing the year in softness and repair to ba...
12/09/2025

I am nearing the end of a three-month somatic trauma therapies training, finishing the year in softness and repair to balance the intensity and depth of the journey.

Trauma is the Great Fragmenter.
The inquiry is: what did it fragment? Self confidence, intimate relationships, body connection, individuation process, dysregulation of motivation, interpersonal connection… most likely it touches several layers and areas.

As someone who works with body awareness and helps people to find balance and relieve pain, this topic is central to my practice.

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