Big changes on the horizon: I’m moving to Charlotte to work for a great law firm, in two weeks! Of course, this means I’m leaving a great law firm, working for my dad, in Goldsboro, the town that raised me and to which I returned wholeheartedly. Thomas Wolfe said “You can’t go home again.” Well, I’m here to tell you that you can and I did. What a rewarding adventure to practice law with my father …
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PRIORITY: Sleep, Nutrition, Exercise
A good friend recently told me, “Helen, you need to set sleep goals... and chase them down.” Amen, sister. Look, we all have those times in our lives, in our year, where the going gets tough, the stress piles on and it’s everything you can do to put one foot in front of the other. Me last week. I tried my very first jury trial last week. Both the week leading up to the trial and the week of …
A Little Bit of Everything
OH HAAAAY!! I wish you could know how many different workouts, recipes, thoughts I wanted to share with you this week. Seemed like everything I did was "good material" for Chasing Helen. The problem is, I have not stopped long enough to write any of it down. But tonight, it all came together. You know those Thursday nights when you open the fridge to find several random ingredients left that you …
You Can. You Will. – Training Your Mental Game
One hot, humid Sunday morning last August, in the middle of marathon training, I set out for a 14-mile run down the long stretch of road from Atlantic Beach to Pine Knoll Shores to Indian Beach and back. No, you can’t see the water. About a mile into my run, I noticed I was running significantly faster than my usual pace. Can I keep this up the whole time? And then, this thought popped in my head—IF I …
Make it STICK—Four Steps to Finding a Routine and Sticking With It
Kristi Thompson looks forward to waking up for her 6 a.m. Hustle class each morning in Cary, NC. If you told her seven months ago that she would have the energy and the drive to wake up at the crack of dawn every single weekday, workout for an hour, get her three-year-old daughter off to day care and herself ready for work by 8:30 a.m., she would have laughed at you. Why? Because seven months ago, …