To address the elephant in the room first: my brother was in a major motorcycle accident. He's doing okay now, but has a lot of injuries...

So I've fallen off the radar for a while. I'm trying really hard to get back into the swing of things. I've been pretty unwell until...

Sometimes, I wish I could just pack up and run away from it all.

So. I might be freaking out a little bit. I dropped my classes this semester, and now I'm considering not going back to DBU at all. In...

A recap of where I've been for the past... Long time.

Two years ago today, I was lying in a hospital bed. One of my friends had brought a small Christmas tree, and I honestly remember more...

Hey friends and family! Happy August! School starts in about two weeks, and I recently wrote an essay for a scholarship competition, and...

So. I had a blog post typed up that I was going to post this morning, but decided against it. It was definitely a post where I was a...

Happy Blog-iversary, everyone! It has been a long time coming and I'm so glad it's finally here. I've changed a lot in the past year, and...

A year ago this week, I was in the hospital for an emergency appendectomy which would later reveal my neuroendocrine tumor, which would...

Dear younger me,

I ended up plunging straight into the sequel because I was stressed in a lot of different areas of my life and decide, "Oh, uh, yeah, I'm n

Life is weird. Life is weird. Like, really weird. If I'm honest, I only started this blog because I wanted to stay in touch with too many...

So, I asked everyone on Facebook and Instagram to send me some questions. Here they are! I've taken yours, and thrown in a few of my own....

I was originally going to write a deep emotional, thought-provoking mental health post for this week, and as I read over it, it was...

Happy Birthday to my wonderful and amazing father!

None of you, my friends, family, you reading this, not a single one of you will ever know what death looks like until you are there yourself

Whooooooo boy. It has been a long few weeks. Some of you may be unaware, but my mom had a bilateral double mastectomy. Then, I got sick...

Perfection. Free of flaws or defects. If you know me on a personal level, you know that I'm a bit of a perfectionist and an...

My name is Natalie Van Hecke and the week before Christmas, I almost died.