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 Physiological Cost of the Holiday Season (And What Actually Helps) (Episode #25)
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The holidays often bring joy and celebration — but they can also quietly push our bodies out of balance. In this episode, Jess shares a personal look at how weeks of disrupted routines, travel, poor sleep, blood sugar swings, and emotional load eventually showed up for her as anxiety — not all at once, but cumulatively.
Rather than framing this as a failure of discipline or willpower, Jess explains how the body responds to patterns, not isolated events — and how symptoms are often the body’s way of communicating a need for support.
In this episode, you’ll learn what your body is actually responding to during the holidays, why common symptoms like anxiety, irritability, cravings, and poor sleep appear, and what your body is truly asking for — without restriction, guilt, or punishment.
In This Episode, We Cover:
- Why anxiety often builds slowly and feels “cumulative”
- How disrupted sleep, travel, food timing, and emotional load impact the body
- How mineral depletion and hydration affect the nervous system
- Why sleep support matters more than sleep perfection during the holidays
- The physiological importance of genuine connection and oxytocin
- A compassionate, physiology-based way to support your body during and after the holidays
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.