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.

If you're reading this, I'm in my ICU bed (a story for a different day) and this is a pre-written post. Anyway, over Thanksgiving break,...

Why did it take take cancer to scare me into living a life that I wouldn't regret? Why did it take me so long to want to live?

So, some health-related stuff has been going on, but I'm not going to share it right now for a few reasons: 1) I honestly just don't want...

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I know my last post was really deep, raw, and kind of difficult, so I'm going to use today's blog to be...

At nineteen, a lot of people expect you to have your entire life planned out. And honestly, it really sucks. Yet, instead of planning out...

When I was seventeen, I remember having to go through some of the hardest things I've ever experienced. I literally had one friend, and...