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: Feeling Safe In Your Body Again
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We talk about what it feels like when your body becomes unpredictable and you stop feeling safe inside it. With pelvic health occupational therapist Karla Ehlers, we share how nervous system support and pre-surgery planning can create steadier recovery and more confidence.
• naming the link between unpredictability, fear, and nervous system dysregulation
• building safety in the body as an individualized skill
• preparing for excision surgery by finding baseline movements that feel good
• avoiding random new exercises post-op by using familiar go-to tools
• using vagus nerve strategies while also addressing what still feels unsafe
• leaning on predictability as a form of nervous system support
Do you have more questions? 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 indobattery.com or visiting the Indobattery.com contact page.
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Quick Format And Medical Disclaimer
SPEAKER_01Life moves fast, and so should the answers to your biggest questions. Welcome to Endo Batteries 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 share 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. I'm your host, Alana, and it's time to connect.
Meet Pelvic Health OT Carla
SPEAKER_01Today I'm joined by Carla Ellers, a pelvic health occupational therapist and the founder of Ocupelvic Health and Wellness. Carla's work goes beyond just the physical side of pelvic health. She focuses deeply on the connection between the nervous system and the pelvic floor, and how our everyday lives, stress, and routines shape how our bodies function and feel. She's helped thousands of individuals navigate things like pelvic pain, dysfunction, and disconnection from their bodies, all through a really holistic, compassionate lens. What I love about her approach is that it's not about the quick fixes, it's about meeting people where they're at and giving them tools that actually support real lasting changes. Please help me in welcoming Carla Ellers to the table.
The Fear Of An Unpredictable Body
SPEAKER_01Do you work with people as well to help feel safe in their bodies again for that unpredictable body? Because, like as someone who has for a long time not felt safe, like it's your our bodies are throwing us for a wing ding, if you will, pretty frequently. And so it's that feeling of like, and I think this is where that gets into that nervous system dysregulation too, right? Like where we just don't feel safe in our bodies anymore. We don't know what it's gonna throw at us, we don't know like why things are happening the way they are. And so I think with that, for me, I recognize like that's probably causing some of that dysregulation within my nervous system. How do we combat that? Like as people where that's a constant battle.
Build A Baseline Before Excision
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I I immediately think of when I'm coaching women on feeling safe within their bodies, particularly in preparation for excision surgery. Because ideally, I would like to work with women before surgery so you can have a baseline of what movements do feel good for you. Because after excision, we don't want to be throwing new exercises and movements at you. You want to already know, like, oh, this one feels really good for me. This is my go-to, right? And so that's why I'm really proactive about getting women before surgery so we can work on those calming techniques and retraining that system so that after surgery, when that we have that clean slate, because your surgeon got rid of all that, that um, that tissue, right? And we can move forward versus constantly back on the internet, oh, what should I do now? What you know, like, and just having that support.
Beyond Vagus Nerve Quick Fixes
SPEAKER_00And so feeling safe within your body is so individualized because your experience with the slip rib, like that's not the same for everybody, right? And so this individualized approach really uh, especially when it comes to nervous system healing, it's more than just different tapping strategies and you know, different humming, like those are all vagal vagus nerve toning strategies to help our vagus nerve. But if if you're if your system is still having unsafe feelings outside of these strategies, like what else is it? Yeah, what else is going on?
Predictability And Listener Question Invite
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Well, if anyone's like me, I like predictability. Like I like to know what we're doing. And our nervous system loves predictability, yes. That'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. You can send them in by using the link in the top of the description of this podcast episode or by emailing contact at indobattery.com or visiting the Indobattery.com contact page. Until next time, keep feeling empowered through knowledge.