Welcome
Here you’ll find nourishing spiritual practices, conscious connection, poems, musings & compassionate truth-telling about about the strange, beautiful and sometimes bewildering experience of navigating this world as a neurodivergent human.
I’m Rachael (Raye) White…
Performance poet, writer, meditation and yoga guide, practitioner of many weird and wonderful alternative therapies. A curious human, that loves all things magickal and mystical, also known as The Bendy Witch.
Lover of the liminal, I write in long form or Haiku. There is no in-between!
I offer nurturing spaces to explore unmasking and coming home to yourself through creativity, consciousness, connection and the bounty of belonging.
Meander awhile…
READ
Poetry, stories & musings
Come wandering through poems, Haiku Villages and longer reflections on human experience… from the profound to the ridiculous, and occasionally both at once.
PRACTICE
Heart Words Meditation
A practice for coming out of the noise and back into relationship with yourself.
Heart Words Meditation, breath, movement and restorative yoga offer different doorways into the same place.
Come home to your Self.
CONNECT
Gatherings, conversations & events
Some things are best explored together.
Discover gatherings, creative events and other opportunities to meet in real life.
A little about me…
I’m a late-diagnosed AuDHDer who spent many years wondering why I experienced the world quite so intensely. I studied many holistic and spiritual modalities trying to hide and simultaneously “fix” the parts of me that did not seem to make sense or fit into this current version of the world.
I’ve encountered some extraordinary teachers along the way, fallen through a few spiritual trapdoors and gained much lived Wisdom and experience through trial and error.
These days I’m interested in staying human (whatever that means), in creating nurturing spaces where we can become quiet enough to hear our own wisdom; learn to hold ourselves compassionately as we grow and emerge into more authentic expressions of ourselves in this ever changing world.
I live aboard a narrowboat called White Tara in the Nene Valley with my cat, where much of what you find here is written. White is my surname, Tara is my cats name and White Tara also happened to be a Goddess embodying qualities of healing, longevity, self mastery, playfulness, Wisdom and infinite Compassion.
Letters from The Bendy Witch…
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Come as you are…
Grab a cuppa. Read a poem. Sit in silence. Engage in some self enquiry through a journal prompt. Laugh. Cry. Giggle. Growl. In the spirit of White Tara may you remain Compassionate through life trials and tribulations. May enjoy the spaces in-between and keep the spirit of play alive.
Perhaps something you find here will help you recognise something, deep down, you already knew. I’d love to know if anything here resonates or moves you.
