Vital Balance With Jess
Tired of wellness advice that revolves around weight loss, physical appearance, and rigid routines that feel impossible to maintain?
Vital Balance with Jess is your no-BS space for real conversations about hormones, metabolic wellness, and holistic health. It's for women who feel exhausted, inflamed, and out of sync with their bodies and minds.
Hosted by Jess, a former attorney turned certified hormone coach, this show is for high-achieving women who’ve been dismissed by doctors, told their labs are “normal,” or have tried everything and still don’t feel well.
Each week, you’ll get practical tools and root-cause strategies to help you:
– Reclaim energy and focus
– Reduce cortisol and inflammation
– Stabilize your mood and cycle
– Heal your hormones (without perfectionism)
If you’ve been stuck in survival mode and want real solutions that work in real life, you’re in the right place.
This isn’t about chasing an ideal—it’s about building real, sustainable vitality from the inside out.
Vital Balance With Jess
The Hidden Cost of Control: Why Your Drive For Perfection Is Wrecking Your Hormones (Episode #18)
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If you’ve ever described yourself as a perfectionist, a high-achiever, or consider yourself someone who has a strong desire to control everything in your life, this episode is for you.
In this episode, Jess breaks down how the constant need to manage, fix, and optimize everything in your life doesn’t just drain your energy — it disrupts your hormones, your nervous system, and your sense of peace.
We’ll explore how the drive for control creates a stress response that keeps cortisol high, suppresses progesterone, impacts thyroid function, and ultimately leads to burnout — physically, mentally, and emotionally. Jess also shares how to recognize when your nervous system is stuck in “fight or flight,” how to begin trusting your body again, and how surrender can actually restore hormonal balance.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- The link between control, stress, and cortisol dysregulation
- Why chronic perfectionism disrupts progesterone, thyroid, and blood sugar balance
- How nervous system hypervigilance keeps your body in survival mode
- Practical ways to restore hormonal balance by softening control
- How to shift from self-pressure to self-trust — and finally exhale
Your body was not designed to thrive under constant tension. True health comes when we stop controlling every variable and start creating safety — in our minds, our bodies, and our hormones.
DISCLAIMER: The content shared in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only, is not a substitute for the advice of medical doctors or practitioners and should not be used to prevent, diagnose, or treat any condition. Consult with a physician prior to beginning any fitness, health, or wellness regimen or routine.