Endo Battery
You are not alone. You are not imagining it. And you deserve answers.
Welcome to Endo Battery, a podcast for anyone navigating endometriosis, adenomyosis, chronic pelvic pain, chronic illness, or the often overwhelming journey to diagnosis, treatment, and healing.
Endometriosis can take more than your health. It can drain your energy, your confidence, your relationships, your fertility, your career, and the life you thought you would have. Adenomyosis and chronic pelvic pain can leave you feeling just as exhausted, dismissed, and misunderstood. Endo Battery was created to help you recharge.
Hosted by endometriosis advocate and Endo Warrior Alanna Trzcinski, Endo Battery brings together real patient stories, leading medical experts, researchers, surgeons, pelvic health professionals, and advocates to explore what is really happening inside the world of endometriosis and chronic illness.
But this isn't just another medical podcast.
Endo Battery is a place where science meets lived experience. Where difficult conversations become empowering ones. Where patients can learn how to advocate for themselves, understand their options, ask better questions, and feel less alone.
Each episode explores topics including:
• Endometriosis diagnosis, symptoms, and misdiagnosis
• Adenomyosis and chronic pelvic pain
• Excision surgery, ablation, and treatment options
• Fertility and endometriosis
• Hormones, hysterectomy, surgical menopause, and HRT
• Pelvic floor health and pelvic physical therapy
• Nerve pain, neuropelviology, and the nervous system
• Endometriosis outside the pelvis, including bowel and thoracic endometriosis
• Chronic illness, inflammation, and complex conditions
• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, POTS, MCAS, and other overlapping conditions
• Patient advocacy, medical gaslighting, and navigating healthcare
• Emerging research and the future of endometriosis care
• The emotional reality of living with chronic illness
You'll hear from people who have lived through years of pain and uncertainty, as well as experts working to change the way endometriosis and chronic illness are understood, diagnosed, and treated.
Because knowledge can be empowering. The right information can change the questions you ask, the care you seek, and the way you understand your own body.
Most importantly, Endo Battery is about more than a diagnosis.
It's about the person behind the diagnosis.
It's about finding your voice when you've been told your pain is normal. Finding hope when you're exhausted. Finding community when you feel isolated. And finding the energy to keep moving forward when chronic illness has taken so much from you.
Whether you've just started wondering if you have endometriosis, you're newly diagnosed, you've been fighting for answers for years, you're recovering from surgery, you're living with adenomyosis or chronic pelvic pain, or you're a loved one or healthcare provider trying to understand more—there is a place for you here.
This is your reminder that you don't have to navigate it alone.
Charge forward with us.
Listen. Learn. Question. Advocate. Recharge.
Welcome to Endo Battery.
Endo Battery
QC: Processing Emotions When Your Body Betrays You: Expert Insights with Dr. Natasha Trujillo
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Struggling with emotional ups and downs while living with chronic illness like endometriosis? You’re not alone—and your anger makes sense. In this powerful episode, Dr. Natasha Trujillo, licensed psychologist and author of "And She Was Never the Same Again," explores how to recognize and process the emotional weight that often comes with invisible illnesses.
Discover how the "anger iceberg" reveals the deeper emotions that fuel frustration—such as grief, loss, sadness, fear, and even guilt—when your body feels like it’s fighting against you.
🔍 In this episode:
• Why anger is a valid and adaptive response to chronic illness
• How to use the anger iceberg to uncover what’s really going on emotionally
• The impact of suppressed emotions on your well-being
• How self-awareness and reflection can help you heal
• Tools for processing emotions in healthy, personalized ways
Whether you're navigating endometriosis, autoimmune disease, or another chronic condition, this conversation sheds light on what you're really feeling—and how to care for yourself through it.
💬 Have a question about endo or chronic illness?
Submit it via the link in the episode description, email us at contact@endobattery.com, or visit www.endobattery.com.
🔗 Be sure to subscribe, rate, and share if you found this episode helpful—it helps more people find trustworthy content about chronic illness, endometriosis, and women's health.
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Introducing Quick Connect Format
Speaker 1Life moves fast and so should the answers to your biggest questions . Welcome to EndoBattery's Quick Connect , your direct line to expert insights Short , powerful and right to the point . You send in the questions , I bring in the experts and in just five minutes you get the knowledge you need . No long episodes , no extra time needed , and just remember expert opinions shared here are for general information and not for personalized medical advice . Always consult your provider for your case-specific guidance . Got a question ? Send it in and let's quickly get you the answers .
Speaker 1I'm your host , alana , and it's time to connect . I'm joined by my expert guest , dr Natasha Trujillo . I'm joined by my expert guest , dr Natasha Trujillo . Dr Trujillo is a licensed counseling and sports psychologist , educator and author , whose work focuses on grief , trauma and identity development . She earned her doctorate in counseling psychology from Purdue University in 2019 and has extensive experience supporting students , athletes and high achievers through mental health challenges ranging from grief and self-injury to eating disorders . She's here to bring her insights on how to navigate our mental and emotional challenges living with chronic illness . Let's dive in what is a healthy way for those of us who have anger towards our body or towards the trauma that we've experienced because of what's going on in our body ? How do we process and cope with that ? What are some healthy ways to do that ? Because that's a very real thing for a lot of us .
Speaker 2Yes , it is . Yes , it is Well . And I will also say I don't think we need to give anger a bad rap either . I think that's a very appropriate and adaptive emotion in this situation . Right , you have a chronic illness , you have something that takes you away from something that you really wanted to pursue or shoot , you know you just have a bad day and your plans get changed . It's okay . It's okay to be angry . That is appropriate , that makes sense in that situation .
Speaker 2I often encourage people to go a little bit deeper too , just in terms of what is underneath some of that anger . The anger iceberg is one of my very favorite things to use in therapy . So , basically , you know , if you picture an iceberg , you have what you see . If you're standing on a boat and you're looking at the tip of the iceberg , that's what you see , and so oftentimes that is anger . In inner society , anger is often a more acceptable emotion than other , than other more vulnerable emotions maybe and so that's the tip , that's what you see . But we know that when you go under the surface and you really look at what's underneath , it's huge , right , yeah , and there's so many emotions in there . So I often ask people what's under the tip of your iceberg .
Speaker 2And when we think about anger , you know , in this situation you wake up and your all your plans get changed because you just don't feel well . That's sadness , that is great , yeah , that is great . That is loss , that is fear , that is , you know , there's guilt . Possibly , even if it's not appropriate guilt necessarily , you still might feel it because you have to change plans A , b and C . And so I think that's another strategy that I really want people to consider is what is underneath some of that anger ? I think some self-reflection too . Are you handling that anger in a way that you feel is adaptive and healthy for you ? There's so many different outlets and you know who am I or anyone else to say what's right and what's wrong . But just being able to self-reflect and figure out , you know , am I handling this in a way that works for me ? And if I'm not , what do I want to do with that ? So I think , being willing to ask yourself hard questions and , if you're recognizing that you need to do some work and figure something out , take those risks .
Speaker 1That's a wrap for this Quick Connect . I hope today's insights helped you move forward with more clarity and confidence . Do you have more questions ? Keep them coming , send them in and I'll bring you the expert answers . Keep them coming , send them in and I'll bring you the expert answers . You can send them in by using the link in the top of the description of this podcast episode or by emailing contact at endobatterycom or visiting the endobatterycom contact page . Until next time , keep feeling empowered through knowledge . Thank you .