138: Her Health and Happiness with Jenni Russell - Episode 138138: Her Health and Happiness with Jenni Russell - Episode 138
UK Health Radio Podcast
Jenni Russell reflects on the first quarter of 2026, linking awareness, responsibility and faith with female intimate health and pelvic wellbeing. She explains why the pelvis is central to emotional and physical health and urges women to stop guessing and start assessing their bodies as a valued asset.
49:09•6 Apr 2026
From Awareness to Action: Jenni Russell on Pelvic Health, Faith and Female Vitality
Episode Overview
- Quarter one is framed as a season of awareness; quarter two is about taking responsibility, making choices and seeking union with self.
- The pelvis is described as a structural, hormonal and emotional powerhouse that often reflects unresolved trauma and stress.
- Jenni stresses that without self-assessment you are “guessing”, encouraging women to use tools like 60-day journeys and reflective tasks.
- Health education around pelvic and postnatal issues is seen as limited and reactive, prompting a call for earlier and better-informed conversations from menstruation onwards.
- Health is presented as a vital foundation, not a trend, and women are urged to adapt their habits over time just as they adapt other areas of life.
“If you yourself are not assessing, you are guessing. And your health needs to be too important to you for you to do that.”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety and whole-body health? Jenni Russell brings that same energy for change to female intimate wellbeing in this solo episode of Her Health and Happiness on UK Health Radio. Speaking directly to women, especially those "fit and fabulous after 50", she reflects on the first quarter of 2026 as a season of **awareness** and calls quarter two the time for **responsibility, choice, and union**.
With warmth, humour and a strong Christian faith, she links global uncertainty, personal stress and emotional trauma with what shows up in the body – particularly in the pelvis. Jenni, author of *Pelvic Floor Secrets – 6 weeks to confidence, continence and sexual satisfaction*, explains why the pelvis is far more than bones and muscles.
She describes it as a structural, hormonal and emotional centre, and shows how grief, shock and long-term stress can sit in the pelvic area and later appear as bladder issues, pain or dysfunction.
She walks through her 60-day journey and six-week programmes as tools for self-assessment, repeating the mantra: "If you yourself are not assessing, you are guessing." Rather than outsourcing everything to professionals, she urges women to understand their own bodies, from womb experiences and birth stories right through to menopause and later life.
Jenni also touches on issues like postnatal care gaps, rising negligence claims in obstetrics, breast cancer stories, divorce in menopause, ageing, movement, and the courage to start again in your 70s. Throughout, her message is clear: health is an asset, not a trend, and the pelvis is the foundation that lets everything else work.
If you’re curious about how your emotions, faith, past experiences and pelvic health are linked – and you’re ready to swap guessing for honest self-checking – this conversation might be just the nudge to start treating your body like the valuable asset it is.
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