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Author Archives: Helen White
About Helen White
Helen White is a professional artist and published writer with two primary blogs to her name. Her themes pivot around health and wellbeing, expanded consciousness and ways of noticing how life is a constant dance between the deeply subjective and the collective-universal, all of which she explores with a daily hunger to get to know herself better. A lifetime of "feeling outside" of mainstream...slowly emerging as Asperger's Syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome plus a complex of co-morbid health challenges, being a confirmed Highly Sensitive Person and an INFJ personality type, not to mention born under an out of bounds moon (need I go on) fed into the creation of Living Whole; a self-exploratory blog fed by a wide angle lens tilted at "health and wellness" topics. Meanwhile, Spinning the Light is a free-for-all covering a multitude of playful and positive subjects about life in the broadest sense...written with a no-holds-barred approach. Needless to say, their subjects cross over quite often.Getting a grip on your weak spot
It can take evolving our most challenging foible, our most persistent Achilles’ heel, the very weak spot that repeatedly catches us out, dumbfounds or blind-sides us, to make the next evolutionary leap. Sharing a post I just published on Living … Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness
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Tagged boundary setting, evolution, evolved handling of stress, grip stress, impulsive behaviour, INFJ, Myers Briggs, out of character, Personality type, self-awareness, stress, weak spot
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What are we collecting?
We all collect things, though we may not notice it at all…and, making this habit conscious can be such a powerful process. Continue reading →
Enough
What is enough, what does it feel like, how do we recognise it when we already have it…and how does it transform everything when we own that to be true. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality
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Tagged ADHD, altered habits, appreciation, being enough, contentment, enough, no longer chasing more, what is enough?, what's really important, you are enough
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Courting obscurity
If being yourself means disappearing down the cracks, out of sight, into some-sort of inner sanctum where you feel happiest and most yourself, even if no one can see you being that way because the experience of it is entirely subjective and private, is that wrong? Or is it just a cultural idea of what is wrong; yet another inequality that favours the extroverted and leaves those of us who are natural hermits gasping for fresh air? In being introverted, am I part of yet another subset of people forced into having to disguise or compromise who they really are to be socially acceptable and get by, even (if income depends on it) to materially thrive? Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged alternate lifestyles, authenticity, being yourself, choice, disengagement, disliking small talk, equal opportunity, equality, evolution, hermit, highly sensitive person, inner life, instagram, introversion, introvert, marketing, neurodiversity, new paradigm, pulled back from the crowd, pulling back from life, quiet life, seeking deeper connections, Social media, true to yourself, trying to fit in, what constitues true success
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Grief isn’t linear…but there’s a gift in that!
I’ve been dealing with grief in a number of formats lately, the most recent being that my beloved dog died last week, adding to other versions of grief I am feeling right now, over loss of people, even lost ways … Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged allowing sadness, bereavement, coping wth loss, evolving consciousness, facing death, grieving over a dog, grieving over a friend, healing emotions, healing trauma, hope, journalling, loss and mourning, loss of a loved one, movement to heal, moving therapy, Peter Levine, preventing trauma, processing grief, releasing energy, shaking therapy, transforming grief, Waking the tiger
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Opening to the new
What does it take to make a lasting and heart-centred friendship? How do we come to terms with the true purpose of all those other ones that seem to pass through like ships on the water. Just thinking outloud. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged accepting what is, conscious uncoupling, eternal friendship, evolved friendships, female friendships, fresh start, friendship, higher friendships, intention setting, introverts, lasting friendships, Mindfulness, new beginnings, outgrowing friendships, parting amicably, relationships, soul mates
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How social media messes with the very point of art
Does an artist, really, have to stay on social media to survive, or, do they sometimes need to detatch from social media in order for the artist in them to survive? Hmm, discussing this one outloud… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Social media
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Tagged altered priorities, approval seeker, ditching Instagram and Facebook, Gupta Program, health and happiness, inner child, is social media really necessary?, joy of art, life beyond Instagram, purpose of art, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, social media and art, spiritual wellbeing, why do art
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Feedback
Receiving feedback is an entirely natural and healthy part of life but the quality of our lives can depend, quite majorly, on where we tend to seek it and the reasons why… Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged ADD, ADHD, all connected, approval seeking, art, awareness, being heard, biofeedback loop, Consciousness, dopamine, empath, feedback, feeling too much, highly sensitive person, inspiration, intuition, listening to the body, neurodiversity, Social media
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Cosmic romance
What does the almost universal, in-built, longing for the big finale, the happy moment of consummation, tell us about ourselves and the fabric of reality? What is it that we really long for? Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality
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Tagged achieving expansive states more often, ADHD, getting out of fear, Gupta Program, healing, Jeddah Mali, letting go, marriage of yin and yang, overcoming limitations, releasing unbeneficial states, sacred feminine, sacred masculine, sacred union, self-sabotage, stop analysing, too many thoughts
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Stop using the path and you will surely lose it
It takes Nature no more than the blink of an eye to take away what she giveth; unless we indicate, quite clearly, just how much we are interested in keeping it, how much we appreciate what we have “in care” from her bounty…only then does she relent. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, metaphor, Nature, Personal Development
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Tagged choosing where to put your attention, choosing your path, forming new habits, healing, healing a loop in the brain, honeysuckle, introvert, limbic retraining, neuroplasticity, positivity, routines, walk in the woods, woodland walks
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