Healthy Buzz: Hormone Health, Gut Health, Perimenopause & Women’s Wellness
Jul 21, 2026 · 49 min · 12 segments
We often chase symptoms, the pain, the flare-up, and try to silence them with medication, surgery, or a standard round of physical therapy. But what if the real work is looking at the fire underneath…
Tara MorrisonGuest
Brandee HommerdingHost
Yeah, you know, I think more and more as nervous system awareness and the vagus nerve and all of these things have been coming within the last like five to 10 years are really becoming more popular.
the impact they have, I do think there is more of a shift, especially among pelvic floor PTs, of understanding that there's a role that the nervous system plays.
But what I often find is that they're really just working on these regulation techniques, right, of like, How do we calm the nervous system? How do we control the nervous system to help you feel better? Which I think is a beautiful first step, because if you're coming into the clinic and you're really stressed out, if your body's holding this tension, you have this past trauma in your body, you have this experience, or maybe you've had anxiety for a long time.
And if you think about being in a state of receptivity to actually receive the treatment, if your body's in fight flight or in a freeze mode, you're less likely to be able to really actually receive the treatment.
exhale and relax enough to let the tissues change with ease, right? And I think that's where we see a lot of forcing tissues.
There's some approaches that are like, let me get in there and really force the tissues and work really hard on this.
I think we get short-term wins from that, but not long-term gains because we're not actually... putting the body in a state where it can receive and it can heal.
And so that's where really trying to understand what is happening to the nervous system.
Why is it staying in those patterns? Say if it's something like chronic anxiety or If you had a traumatic birth experience and now you're having anxiety or depression, right? That's putting your body in a state.
maybe you've had chronic depression and you have more freeze energy in your body, or you're someone who's had endometriosis and So often we think, oh, I'm in this depression or I'm in freeze, nervous system state of freeze, right? I'm having a hard time motivating.
But what we don't always realize is that also we can have freeze in the tissues.
If there's scar tissue, if there's endometriosis, if there's immobility, the gut can be in a state of freeze as well, right? So maybe you're constipated, maybe there's IBS or other gut changes happening.
How is that also playing into the entire experience? If your pelvic and abdominal tissues can't move because you have endometriosis, is it just scar tissue or is it these nervous system patterns that are also playing into your tissues ability? to move and your body's ability to feel safe enough to actually release what it's holding, which isn't often just muscular.
Yeah, you know, I think more and more as nervous system awareness and the vagus nerve and all of these things have been coming within the last like five to 10 years are really becoming more popular.
the impact they have, I do think there is more of a shift, especially among pelvic floor PTs, of understanding that there's a role that the nervous system plays.
But what I often find is that they're really just working on these regulation techniques, right, of like, How do we calm the nervous system? How do we control the nervous system to help you feel better? Which I think is a beautiful first step, because if you're coming into the clinic and you're really stressed out, if your body's holding this tension, you have this past trauma in your body, you have this experience, or maybe you've had anxiety for a long time.
And if you think about being in a state of receptivity to actually receive the treatment, if your body's in fight flight or in a freeze mode, you're less likely to be able to really actually receive the treatment.
exhale and relax enough to let the tissues change with ease, right? And I think that's where we see a lot of forcing tissues.
There's some approaches that are like, let me get in there and really force the tissues and work really hard on this.
I think we get short-term wins from that, but not long-term gains because we're not actually... putting the body in a state where it can receive and it can heal.
And so that's where really trying to understand what is happening to the nervous system.
Why is it staying in those patterns? Say if it's something like chronic anxiety or If you had a traumatic birth experience and now you're having anxiety or depression, right? That's putting your body in a state.
maybe you've had chronic depression and you have more freeze energy in your body, or you're someone who's had endometriosis and So often we think, oh, I'm in this depression or I'm in freeze, nervous system state of freeze, right? I'm having a hard time motivating.
But what we don't always realize is that also we can have freeze in the tissues.
If there's scar tissue, if there's endometriosis, if there's immobility, the gut can be in a state of freeze as well, right? So maybe you're constipated, maybe there's IBS or other gut changes happening.
How is that also playing into the entire experience? If your pelvic and abdominal tissues can't move because you have endometriosis, is it just scar tissue or is it these nervous system patterns that are also playing into your tissues ability? to move and your body's ability to feel safe enough to actually release what it's holding, which isn't often just muscular.
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