by Portland Helmich | Mar 16, 2019 | Health and Wellness
For 18 years, I was in a committed romantic relationship with a man who eventually became my husband. I never left his side when he was hospitalized for a brain tumor in our mid-20s. And he was equally tethered to me. When I was feeling increasingly exhausted by the...
by Portland Helmich | Mar 6, 2019 | Health and Wellness
When I moved to Los Angeles some years ago, I started taking a writing class with a teacher who wanted us to start the class as centered and alert as possible. Before we began writing, she’d have one of her students lead us in Kundalini Yoga. I always enjoyed the...
by Portland Helmich | Feb 6, 2019 | Health and Wellness
By the time I was 15 years old, I had a fully developed body. I was five-foot-seven and 145 pounds. I had D-cup breasts and ample hips. I wanted to jump out of my skin. I didn’t resemble the pencil-thin models in the fashion magazines, and I certainly didn’t resemble...
by Portland Helmich | Jan 24, 2019 | Health and Wellness
I’ve always been a doer. Not one to wait for things to come to me, I’m the type to take action, pick up the phone, initiate the project, ask the guy out rather than wait to be asked. It’s a worthwhile trait that’s created opportunities for me, but I’ve begun to...
by Portland Helmich | Jan 21, 2019 | Health and Wellness
The feeling is visceral. I liken it to furiously paddling in a vast, dark ocean, unable to find land. There’s nothing to grab onto. It’s an abyss of nothingness that largely appears, for me, at night, when I find myself alone after the end of a treasured...
