TLDR - The Quick and dirty deets
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🌀 I write about my own experiences and self-awareness within the contexts of Human Design, shadow work, The Pathwork, spirituality, personal growth & development.
🌀 I enjoy being sassy and weird in my communication style. Humor and plays on words are delicious to me.
🌀 For now, it’s only a free subscription. Your sign-up would, however, be priceless and precious to me, as it would support my emotional need to know that people actually care about what I have to say. One day, I do hope to have a paid tier.
🌀 How often writings get sent out will depend on my energy and what my sacral authority feels up for. (FYI- Sacral authority = Human Design stuff). It could be weekly; it could be less than monthly. I can’t promise consistency. But your inbox won’t ever be clogged up with tons and tons of me, THAT I can promise!
With that said, I do hope you will take the time to read the rest of my "about me" because it will really give you a taste of the flavor my communication and writing style brings! 📖👀👇👇👇
Who the heck am I and why should you care what I have to say?
☝️ that was the name of the first writing I published here. I hadn’t exactly understood how to set up this Substack yet and didn’t realize I was gonna get this whole handy about me page. Granted, the style of the post was definitely less about page and more, well, post, so it is what it is. You should head on over and have a read. I share my Human Design chart there, in case you are curious.
But let’s get this about-me party started here!
~ Welcome to Surrendering to Gravity ~
My name is Natalie White, and I am… ok, my brain wanted me to say “a human” here. 🤭Because honestly, I have no *fricken* clue how to finish that sentence. Getting more specific than human seems tiresome at the moment.
The reason that I am here is to share my thoughts. I have LOTS of those and need an outlet to share what needs to be expressed.
I believe that somewhere in this about page, I’m supposed to tell you who you are supposed to be so that when you read it, you go, “Oh hey, that’s me! She’s talking to me!! Oh, I feel so special and that makes me want to give this woman my attention and my money!!” You know, selling psychology and shit. (Oh yeah, I don’t normally feel the need to curse in my writing and will use strange, funny, or cute substitutions… it’s not a moral thing, but more of a fun, creative thing… however, this one felt like it needed to just be what it is! 😅)
But you know what? I’m really sick and tired of that. That whole strategic communication thing… it’s not how my brain works.
You are who you are, and I really don’t care to worry about that. You will align to what I say, or you won’t. My words and my energy will speak to you and pull you toward what I share, or they won’t. I will be a transformative mirror for you, or I won’t.
Any which way, it’s none of my *effing* business!! (See, that one just did not want to be the curse word!)
In the end, I am doing any and all of this here for the sake of my self-expression.
Do I hope that it reaches people who can receive it? Oh, for sure. I dearly desire to connect with those who resonate with what I share. But at this point, what is most important is just to let it the F out of me 😵💫
What can you expect to read about here?
Human Design, for sure!!!!!
Learning about, experimenting with, and living my design has been an enormous focus in my life for over 2 years now. I dove in DEEEEEEP and headfirst into my experiment. Talk about surrendering!!
Most likely some discussion of Astrology / Astrological stuff (yes, “stuff” is the scientific term, thankyouverymuch lol)
It’s what led me to Human Design, and I still have a connection to it. I really don’t do predictive astrology or transit stuff… and I am not one to feel affected by Mercury retrograde to get all into the phases of the moon, like so many seem to.
Nah, my interest in astrology is more shadow work related… how we can see who we are in the energies of charts and how we can use that to let go of who we are not. Actually, as I write this out, I realize that I was always meant to find Human Design lol. I naturally wanted to look at astrology in that way! Interesting.
Concepts and my experiences with The Pathwork of Self-Transformation
The Pathwork does not seem to be something that is well known… not amongst most people I’ve encountered, anyway. It was deeply transformational for me, and I will absolutely share the knowledge I’ve gained from it throughout my writings.
PRACTICAL Shadow Work on an emotional/ body level
Too many people in the new age community, in my opinion, stop at the mental level when engaging in “shadow work.” Yes. The mind is an important asset in the endeavor, but if you don’t actually go INTO the physical part of FEELING YOUR FEELINGS… and yes, it is 100000000 billion percent about the physical experience… if you don’t go there, you are not really transforming anything.
My experiences, plain and simple
One thing I have come to learn in the past few years is that I am really not here to teach concepts. Not that I don’t explain concepts at all, but only as they are contextually relevant. I have come to discover that in my HD (Human Design) chart, there is a lot of “just being” energy and I do well to just focus on myself and my own experiences, and NOT try to tell someone else what they should be doing/ looking into/ trying to [whatever]. Literally, my chart shows that my blind spot and distraction have to do with thinking that I see what is best for other people and then trying to communicate it to them so that they can transform. It was quite illuminating to discover that.
The bottom line is that this is a space that is focused on self-awareness Because self-awareness is the key. To. Everything. Full stop.
Before I wrap this up, I want to talk a little about the name Surrendering to Gravity…
Years ago, I came across the phrase, “Surrendering to gravity,” and it struck a deep chord in me.
At the time, I was going through the beginnings of The Pathwork, and in some really painful processes of seeing truths about myself and the way I showed in the world… and how I had inadvertently been stuffed into a box by those around me a child. They had not meant to hurt me, but such is that nature of our world. Conditioned people raise more conditioned people, they cannot help it.
“I let go of everything that is not truth.”
It was almost a mantra to me, at that time.
And “surrendering to gravity,” to me, was a deeply poetic way of expressing that sentiment.
Surrendering to my own gravity. Not fighting my truths. Just letting go of anything that had to held in place, against any tide.
The first blog I ever started, Surrendering to Gravity was its name. My self-expression IS exactly that… my surrender to my gravity. There was no other name that felt right.
When I tried to start an online business, I had thought of using Surrendering to Gravity, but it was not practical enough… had no keywords… didn’t really do anything to let people know what anything was about… all this strategic business thinking stuff… so I just left it aside.
But now, here… as I allows everything else to fall away from me, I give not TWO GODDAMN FUCKING SHITS (yep, that needed the full curse words in caps for sure!!) about any of that.
Whoever doesn’t get it… whoever may get turned off or away by it… well, GOOD. Means they were not meant to be in my orbit anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I let go of everything that is not truth. I surrender to gravity.
I had a very pleasant surprise when, as I learned more about substructure in Human Design, I came to find that there is mention to one’s own “gravity” in the chart… and that one of the Bases- MY base, actually!!- speaks to gravity.
Oh, such a delicious point of resonance for me.
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Oops, was I supposed to be talking about practical things here?? Like why you should subscribe??
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Well, you should subscribe if you are into self-awareness and self-transformation and enjoy reading entertaining stories that end up being deeply transformative.
Because I am told that listening to me/ reading my writing and my stories really stirs the deep stuff up in people.
And my design shows that I am this incredible mirror for people. You will start thinking about your own experiences as you hear/read about mine.
But, I mean, I think it’s also fun to read… I hope anyway, ha!
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