Shadow Work Voice Notes

I have never explained this topic in such a detailed, in-depth, and practical way before. I was inspired by the conclusion of my previous voice note (#22. What does training cats have to do with human interactions?) to dive into the deep whys of how we co-create relationships, situations, and interactions with others... and what came out was the most comprehensive explanation I've ever given....

Yep. I'm talking about cats again 🤭😸 They say you can't train a cat, but the truth is... you so can. It's just not the same as with dogs. What does that have anything at all to do with humans and shadow work?! Well, the thing is, we can learn a lot about interacting with each other from cats. Respect. Giving space. Saying no. Learning how to pay attention and focus on the positive in...

I talk about listening to your body all the time, but in this entry, I am giving you a look at how I do this for myself in real-time. I was feeling off when I recorded this voice note and decided to make a record of me talking it out. In this voice note, I exemplify the process of allowing your feelings and sensations to speak to you/how to interpret what you are feeling... and how to use the mind...

It seems to me that everywhere I see people talking about spiritual and/or esoteric topics, there is this way of looking at and speaking about the mind as if it is this enemy that is out to get us and must be overcome... but I see it very differently. Yes, it's true that we have been using our mind in ways that are not correct- making it the ultimate decision maker, using it to override our em...

Ok. This is one of the most important conversations that we have and it is the foundation of the deeply transformative kind of shadow work that I do and guide others through. Feeling your feelings. I know it can seem a little like, well, duh, right?! 😅You just... feel them!! But what does that actually mean? And here's the real interesting thing: In my work with and interactions with so many...

I put rant in quotation marks because this probably barely qualifies as such haha... but it's as rant-y as I get. The thing is, I see so much conversation about different "spiritual" practices... protection... cleansing... together with conversations about "evolve... awake... ascent..." (yeah, I did a whole episode just on the concept of awakening and ascension already - ch...

In anything in life, there can be a healthy and an unhealthy manifestation... and in my need to give and receive freedom, I have experienced how that shadow, or unhealthy, side can come up. There's really not much to say here as a preamble lol, so just listen in as I discuss how I have come to realize and witness the shadow side of this need of mine! 🪐 Who am I? I am Natalie White, founder of...

What do you value most? And in what ways do you observe these values shaping how you interact with the world and beings around you? I value freedom and the freedom to self-regulate above all else, and it's funny how I came to really understand this through my observations of how I thought my pets felt! I realized that it was just me projecting what I imagined I would feel... and that did not n...

I talk a lot about how important it is to pay attention to your body and “follow” your energy. But I don’t just talk about it; this is something I LIVE daily and put into practice in my own life… in the most experiential of ways. I will often joke (to anyone who will listen lol) that I came to the point where I threw my hands up and said, “Sacral, take the wheel!” You see, I am a sacral generator...

Learning to express your emotions is important. But what does that mean exactly? Expressing your emotions is more than just putting words to them and saying them out loud... that's just a mental process. (An important part of the whole, for sure, but if you stop there, you are doing yourself a disservice.) One of the tougher emotions for me to learn to hold space for and express was anger. And...

On this day, I was feeling extremely uncomfortable and in need of talking through what was going on so that I could better understand what I was feeling. Since this whole podcast was born out of this very need, I decided that I would share this deeply personal, open, and uncensored voice note, where I seek to make conscious a feeling which had previously been vague and unconscious. This is part of...

I feel like popular culture tends to reject routine and schedules as something antiquated and restrictive... and, to a degree, the prescription is that it is something we need to break free from. I know that, for some time, I thought I had been conditioned to follow schedules and routines and that this was a mental block I needed to overcome. However, through learning more about my Human Design, I...

I have always struggled with anxiety. It's what comes up for me when I'm having a difficult time... it's my "safe" emotion that takes over when I'm resisting what I'm feeling. On this one particular day, I was struggling quite a bit with a strong bout of anxiety when I had a question pop up out of nowhere that gave me pause... the question was, "What if I didn&#3...

What is the meaning of life? Why does anything exist at all? Yes, yes. The "age-old" question. As a lifetime spiritual seeker, this was a question that had always been an itch I could not scratch. So many spiritual teachings would speak to creation and how "god created us all" and all of that... and the best I could ever seem to get out of anything was that it was because god l...

Trigger warning: This entry includes discussion of suicide and the feelings associated with it. Through these experiences of unreality, where I experienced myself as two separate consciousnesses at the same time, I came to a place where I felt the most profound and painful emptiness. In this space, I viscerally understood what it is that can drive people to commit suicide.  From sitting with and i...

In my mid 20s, I started to experience something I came to think of as “unreality.” It was a strange feeling that would overtake me without warning, and make me feel like nothing was real. Trying to stay sane and navigate life while in the throws of these bouts was… well, quite challenging! These experiences happened at varying degrees over the span of 3-ish years, as my awareness of myself and wh...

I see people talking about awakening and ascension all the time, and there’s something about it that has always sat kind of wrong with me. There’s an underlying icky feeling that I get from the way that people talk about these concepts, yet I had never quite put my finger on it or put it into words before. On the day that I recorded this voice note, I had come across more than one post explaining...

Lately, I have felt as if my understanding of different spiritual concepts has deepened in quite an interesting way. Through a recent conversation with a friend on the topic of the evolution of consciousness, I was able to tap into answers to questions I had wondered about for many, many years. It just… bubbled up, and somehow I got it… I could under exactly how and why it is true for us to say th...

The smallest incidents that we experience as children can have long-lasting effects on our lives... in ways that we aren't even consciously aware of... even with no real memory of those very incidents! I tell a small and silly story from my life about where and how my emotionally charged "belief" that leggings aren't pants came from. It's crazy because it's full of vague...

One of the biggest lessons that I learned about human interpersonal relationships, I learned from a cat. Crazy right? But it's true. As humans, we have our logical and reasonable brains that hinder certain behaviors for the sake of propriety. Cats do not 🤭😹 And because of this, I got to witness firsthand a fascinating transformation in one little being... when I chose to allow him to just be...

A differently angled discussion on the subject of self-worth. You see, I did not see myself as having issues with that, not for a long time. I felt like my self-worth was quite intact... until I looked at it from a different vantage point. I realized that I did feel compelled to "prove" my value to others by fulfilling a practical role and being useful. It is a more subtle aspect of self...

This is my favorite story to tell. The night that, out of nowhere, I suddenly understood the whole of existence. I FELT the reality of the truth that so many spiritual teachings talk about. It was the most amazing and yet terrifying experience I have ever had! All in a random hotel room, when I was 19 and moving across the country all alone. Each time I tell it, it comes out slightly differently.....

I've held my voice back for so long! In this first voice note, I just followed the impulse to speak whatever was on my mind that day. This was the first time I did this, and had not even thought of sharing it with anyone at all (so please excuse my excessive use of "Oh my god" and some other random annoying sounds. It's so funny how one thought leads to another... how talking abo...