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...
by Portland Helmich | Jan 13, 2019 | Health and Wellness
I freelanced for nearly two decades as a television host, producer, writer, and voice-over talent, even as an actor on occasion. Sometimes, I was crazy busy, juggling a number of projects; sometimes, everything would wrap up at once and I wouldn’t know how...
by Portland Helmich | Jan 1, 2019 | Health and Wellness
Three mornings a week, I get up early and head to a gym where I work out with a trainer. He has me do lunges and sumo squats; he works my triceps, biceps, and back muscles with free weights; he directs me to hold planks and do sit-ups on an ab bench. I do three sets...
by Portland Helmich | Dec 22, 2018 | Health and Wellness
Autumn has always been my favorite time of year. I love the crispness in the air, the warm-but-not-too-hot days, the cooler nights, the vibrantly colored leaves shimmering in the trees. But it’s also a bittersweet time of year—a time tinged with feelings of loss. I...
