Meet Your Body with Jessica Valant, MSPT

Meet Your Body with Jessica Valant, MSPT

Welcome to Meet Your Body with Jessica Valant, MSPT — a podcast dedicated to helping women feel strong, safe and empowered in their bodies through every season of life. Combining science-backed education, professional expertise, advocacy, and compassion, Jessica brings honest conversations and practical tools to the complex world of women’s health and aging. Each episode explores the topics women are too often left to navigate alone, including perimenopause, menopause, endometriosis, hysterectomy, prolapse, infertility, exercise, aging, recovery, body image, and learning how to advocate for yourself in healthcare and everyday life. Through expert guests, personal stories, actionable strategies, and evidence-based guidance, Jessica helps listeners cut through misinformation and reconnect with their bodies with more confidence and clarity. Drawing from both her professional experience as a physical therapist & women's health expert and her own personal health journey, Jessica offers a grounded, empowering approach to aging, healing, movement, and wellness — reminding women that strength is possible at every stage of life.

Episodes

How to Help Kids Have a Positive Relationship With Their Bodies

September 23, 2026 • 45 mins
How can we help kids grow up feeling safe, confident and connected to their bodies in a world that constantly tells them that looks and size determine their value? In this episode of Meet Your Body, physical therapist and women’s health expert Jessica Valant shares eight practical ways parents, grandparents, teachers, caregivers and other trusted adults can help children develop a healthy relationship with their bodies. Jes...
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My HRT Journey - My Questions, Symptoms and Plan

September 17, 2026 • 45 mins
In this personal episode of Meet Your Body, Jessica Valant shares her own HRT journey: the symptoms that finally pushed her to consider hormone therapy, the questions and concerns she had before starting, what she tried first, what helped, what didn’t, and where she is now eight months later. Jessica talks openly about the physical changes that were affecting her quality of life - joint and muscle pain and significant mood...
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Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT): What Every Woman Should Know

September 10, 2026 • 52 mins
Hormone replacement therapy is having a resurgence—but HRT isn’t one medication, one dose or the right choice for every woman. In this episode of Meet Your Body, physical therapist and women’s health expert Jessica Valant breaks down what hormone replacement therapy actually is, what it can—and can’t—do, and the important factors to consider when deciding whether HRT might be right for you. Jes...
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The Women's Health Initiative - How One Study Changed HRT for Women

September 8, 2026 • 24 mins
In 2002, the results of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) changed the conversation around hormone replacement therapy almost overnight. Millions of women stopped taking HRT, prescriptions plummeted, and fear around estrogen, breast cancer and heart disease shaped women’s healthcare for the next two decades. But what did the WHI actually study—and what did it really find? In this short episode of Meet Your Body...
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Hormones in Perimenopause and Menopause - All About Estrogen, Progesterone and Testosterone

September 2, 2026 • 42 mins
What actually happens to your hormones during perimenopause and menopause? In fact, what are hormones anyway and why are they important? We hear constantly that estrogen is dropping, progesterone is disappearing and testosterone is changing—but the real story is much more nuanced. In this episode of Meet Your Body, physical therapist and women’s health expert Jessica Valant breaks down the science of estrogen, pro...
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The Five Keys to Sticking With Health Habits

August 27, 2026 • 38 mins
Why is it so hard to stay consistent with the health habits we know are good for us? In this episode of Meet Your Body, Jessica breaks down the five keys that are essential to creating health habits you can actually stick with—without relying on willpower, guilt, or an unrealistic overhaul of your life. She discusses how to find a meaningful why, keep things simple, make health habits fit into rea...
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How I Create Your Workouts - A Connections Episode

August 24, 2026 • 16 mins
In this short Connections episode, Jessica is sharing what matters most to her when she creates workouts for you—and how those priorities shaped her new four-week BUILD Program starting September 1st. She talks about why she believes your workouts should help you build strength and confidence while also supporting your body, meeting you where you are, and giving you a clear plan you can actually follow. She also gets into det...
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Why You're Running on Empty - How To Refill Your Energy Bucket

August 20, 2026 • 46 mins
We all want more energy and somehow it seems that running on empty is a normal part of life. Your energy isn’t an unlimited resource—and understanding what’s draining yours may be the key to finally feeling better. In this episode of Meet Your Body, Jessica Valant introduces a simple but powerful way to think about your energy: your personal energy bucket. During seasons of back-to-school chaos, po...
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Back To School Lessons and Strategies - Connections Episode

August 17, 2026 • 23 mins
In this short and personal Connections episode, Jessica talks about the eight lessons she's learned as a parent as her kids go back to school. From being their safe place to answering hard questions to simply making sure they have snacks at all times, this is a fun yet meaningful conversation around supporting yourself and the kids in your life. If you act as a caregiver in any capacity for kiddos during this back to school season...
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GLP-1's Explained with Ashley Koff, RD

August 13, 2026 • 66 mins
GLP-1s seem to be everywhere right now, from social media to popular television commercials to your neighbors down the street. Yet most of us don’t understand what they are or how they work. In this episode of Meet Your Body, Jessica sits down with registered dietitian Ashley Koff, RD, to cut through the hype, fear, and misinformation surrounding GLP-1 medications. Ashley breaks down the science of GLP-1s, GIP, peptides, and ...
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My Biggest Pet Peeves in Health & Fitness (And Why They Matter)

August 6, 2026 • 46 mins
What if some of the biggest barriers to your health aren't your habits—but the messages you've been taught to believe? In this episode of Meet Your Body, Jessica shares her six biggest pet peeves in the health, wellness, and fitness industries. From judgment and misinformation to unrealistic marketing claims and one-size-fits-all advice, Jessica breaks down the trends that frustrate her most as a health care profession...
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Chronic Stress - My Own Healing Journey (Best of)

July 30, 2026 • 42 mins
Jessica never would have described herself as an anxious or stressed person. But in her early twenties, her body told a different story. In this deeply personal episode of Meet Your Body, Jessica shares how years of chronic stress quietly affected her health, the physical symptoms that changed the course of her life, and the lessons she learned as she began healing. She also opens up about how chronic stress resurfaced years ...
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Overwhelmed By Health Advice? You're Not Alone! (Best of)

July 23, 2026 • 47 mins
Does it feel like every day there's a new health trend, supplement, workout, or expert telling you what you should be doing? With so much information available, it's easy to feel overwhelmed—and even harder to know what deserves your time, energy, and money. In this replay of one of our most important episodes of Meet Your Body, Jessica shares a simple framework for filtering through the endless stream of heal...
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How I'm Navigating Change

July 16, 2026 • 34 mins
Change is one of the few things we can count on in life—and yet it's something most of us resist. In this personal episode, Jessica shares what she's navigating in her own life right now, from the changes that come with aging and a changing body to family dynamics, work, and the uncertainty that every new season can bring. Through honest reflection and practical tools, Jessica explores how we can meet change with more curios...
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Mother-Daughter Book Recommendations for Tween and Teen Girls

July 9, 2026 • 59 mins
After her annual book recommendations episode, Jessica couldn't resist creating one more reading list—this time with a very special guest! Her 13-year-old daughter joins her to share their favorite fiction books for girls, with recommendations organized by age and reading level. They both love to read and share books together and they are excited to bring their favorites today. They divide their recommendation list into four...
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My Annual Book Recommendations!

July 2, 2026 • 51 mins
It's one of my favorite episodes of the year! In this annual tradition, I'm sharing the books that inspired me, challenged my thinking, made me laugh, let me escape and kept me turning pages long after bedtime. From fiction fantasy, drama and romance to non-fiction empowerment and women's health, there's something here for every kind of reader. I'll tell you why each book made my list, who I think will enjoy it most, and the les...
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Why and How To Cross Train For Runners

June 25, 2026 • 43 mins
When you are a runner, some of the most important workouts you do happen on the days you aren't going for a run. In this episode of Meet Your Body, physical therapist and women's health expert Jessica Valant, MSPT, explains why cross training is one of the most valuable tools for improving performance, preventing injuries, and helping you enjoy running for years to come. Whether you're training for your first 5K, preparing fo...
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The Lymphatic System - What It Does and Tools for Support

June 18, 2026 • 36 mins
Most of us don't spend much time thinking about our lymphatic system—but this incredible network plays a vital role in immunity, fluid balance, healing, and overall health. When it's functioning well, you probably don't notice it. But when it's not, you may experience swelling, puffiness, fatigue, frequent illness, or complications after surgery and cancer treatment. In this episode of Meet Your Body, physical therapist and ...
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Low Back Pain - Treatment, Symptoms and Hope

June 11, 2026 • 41 mins
Back pain can be frightening, frustrating, and overwhelming—but it doesn't have to be a limitation to movement and function! In this episode, physical therapist Jessica Valant shares the facts, myths, and practical strategies everyone should know about lower back pain. Drawing from both professional expertise and her own recent experience with a back injury, Jessica explains why diagnoses like herniated discs and spondylolis...
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Missing Workouts - The Myths and Truths

June 4, 2026 • 39 mins
Have you ever missed a few workouts and immediately felt like you were back at square one? You're not alone and today you'll learn both the myth and truth of missing workouts. In this episode of Meet Your Body, Jessica tackles one of the biggest myths in fitness: the belief that missing a few days (or even a few weeks) of exercise means you've lost all of your progress. Drawing on both science and her experience as a physical th...
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