My name is Natalie (she/they). I am a thirty-one-year-old HR & marketing professional, writer, introverted bisexual, Type 4 Enneagram, aspiring functional human living in Egg Harbor, WI with my two cats (Merlin & Arthur).
My roots are in small-town Wisconsin where I grew up with my nuclear family on the hill in the country. I read books. I watched TV. I read fanfiction. I wrote fantasy romance and angsty poetry. I got along with my parents. I loved
I took off to Boston to study Writing, Literature, & Publishing at Emerson College and then moved again to Texas after graduation where I planted myself for six years before deciding to move to the Door County Peninsula — not my hometown, but rather my vacation spot growing up, my heart’s forever home, and where my family has lived for the past few years.
The chronic depression and accompanying bullshit that dotted my (otherwise charmed) upbringing exploded in my early twenties when my young marriage took a wrong turn. My life turned upside down and I found myself re-learning the basics of dealing with mental health, loneliness, heartbreak, recovery, and what it takes to intentionally build a life. Still working on it, but progress is perfection.
I started this blog in 2019 as one way to live out my personal theme for that year: Create. It was intended to be a documentation and reflection of creativity, happiness, healing, and intention. And it has been a whole lot of that, as well as a snapshot of my challenges and successes and throughout it all the striving to be the best version of myself and loving myself through the million ways I come up short.
In 2024, I’m continuing the practice of writing every day while focusing on my current theme for the year: Onward