"Your name is of value, because of the name of the One who formed you, His signature is on your soul." - Ravi Zacharias
First off, let me welcome you to my website! I’m so happy you’re here!
You might’ve read the introduction on my home page and now I thought I’d give you a little insight into who I am.
My name is Natalie and I am a native North Carolinian. I’ve lived here my whole life with my parents, David and Kathryn, and three sisters: Jessica, Lydia and Valerie. I absolutely love the outdoors. I am my happiest being surrounded by nature, land and animals and I’d live on a farm if I could! Sadly, the land in the main picture on my home page is not mine. I wish I could claim it, but instead I make do with the ⅓ of an acre that I live on. ;)
I love cooking for my family and experimenting in the kitchen and hope to one day maybe start posting some of the recipes I’ve come up with!
I’m a professional singer/violinist and I perform with my sisters in our group The Hall Sisters! We began singing together back in 2008 and have been professionally performing as a group since 2014. Music played a major role in my struggles with my eating disorders - but that’s a story for another time. I love singing with my sisters and am so blessed to work with them!
I struggled with anorexia for about seven years and bulimia for about three years. But in all honesty, food has always been a struggle for me since I was a little girl. As I was battling my ED's, I was determined to recover from them. Throughout my battle, I was always searching for an everlasting recovery. I didn't want anything temporary. I didn't want a recovery that worked for a while, but the issue resurfaced with a vengeance later on. After years of searching, fighting and failing ... I finally found it. But what I found was not at all what I thought I was looking for.
I'll let you in on a little secret; as humans, we're always in a form of "recovery" because there are always things we go overboard with, or struggle with or fail at. What I found is that we will always have something we are working on getting better at ... aka recovering. So if you are deep in a disorder or addiction, I want you to know that you aren't so lost, or so addicted, or too far gone to where you can't recover. You are with everyone else out there. What's hard sometimes is the fact that every recovery looks different to everyone else. So it's easy for us to compare to one another. And that's why it's also incredibly unfair to compare our lives and journeys to other people's.
My purpose with this website is to share the brutally honest and vulnerable stories of my life in hopes that you can (hopefully) relate to them and see that you are not alone. My life was (and still is) filled with many mess-ups and failures but also many victories. I share the good, the bad and the ugly on this website. Not so you can compare your journey to mine, but so that you can hopefully relate it to your own life and be encouraged that you are not alone.
In order to get to a place of everlasting recovery, it took several things:
God's saving grace
My personal relationship with Jesus Christ
My family
A treatment center
Many tried and failed diets
Relapses and a recovery program.
All those things played a part in my healing to help me find everlasting recovery. And all those things are the stories and circumstances which have built this website.
As I said at the beginning, I am so glad you’re here and I hope this website might encourage you that no matter what you are going through, you can truly find everlasting recovery!
Back in 2021, I released my first book titled “Nothing to Lose but Everything to Gain”. In it, I shared the many personal struggles, thoughts, and ugly encounters on the road to my eventual recovery. It’s an intimate, raw and honest glimpse into my life as a prisoner to those lies.
If you’re interested in purchasing a copy for yourself or a loved one, they are available on our website!
