Tessa Krantz

A little warmth can go a long way. 💗 Heating pads, warm baths, heated blankets, or even a simple rice sock can help relax tense muscles and bring some comfort on pelvic pain flare days. Choose what feels good for your body, keep the temperature comfortable, and give yourself permission to rest. ✨

🎨 Created by a physician + digital artist/animator, using a mix of medical expertise, original creative direction, and multimedia/AI-assisted tools.

Pelvic or bladder flares can sometimes make the whole nervous system feel a little louder. 💗

These are 4 gentle pressure points some people find calming during a flare — whether it’s the quiet ritual, slow breathing, gentle touch, or simply taking a moment to let the body settle.

They’re not a treatment or a replacement for medical care, but they can be a simple comfort tool to try when symptoms feel heightened.

Save this for your next flare, or share it with someone who might find it helpful. 💕

PelvicHelp 💛

Estrogen helps keep the vaginal tissues healthy, hydrated, and resilient. As hormone levels change during perimenopause and menopause, dryness, irritation, recurrent UTIs, and discomfort with intimacy can become more common.

The good news? You don’t have to just “live with it.”

Small changes can make a big difference. 💗

You deserve care care that explains the “why”.

your symptoms are real.
and you deserve support 🤍

Pelvic floor muscles are supposed to relax, lengthen, and coordinate 🤍

But sometimes those muscles stay tight, guarded, and overactive — contributing to pelvic pain, pressure, burning, painful in*******se, urinary symptoms, or difficulty relaxing the pelvic floor.

Pelvic floor Botox is one option that may help relax chronically overactive pelvic floor muscles in select patients ✨

It’s not a “quick fix” or the right treatment for everyone, but for some patients it can be a helpful part of a comprehensive pelvic floor treatment plan alongside pelvic floor physical therapy and other supportive treatments.

Pelvic flare days can feel exhausting 🤍

Sometimes the nervous system, muscles, bladder, hips, and pelvic floor all start talking at once… and the body shifts into protection mode.

Gentle warmth can help create a sense of safety and relaxation:
✨ calming tense muscles
✨ soothing pelvic discomfort
✨ helping the nervous system settle
✨ creating a small moment of comfort during flares

There’s no “perfect” flare routine.
Sometimes it’s simply about finding little things that help your body feel supported again ☕🌸

Sometimes postpartum pressure doesn’t go away just because you exercised more, strengthened your core, or did “all the right things” 🤍

After pregnancy, the body can learn protective movement patterns that keep the pelvic floor, core, hips, and breathing system from coordinating naturally together.

So even when someone is strong…✨ things can still feel heavy✨ disconnected✨ tense✨ or “off”

Healing is not always about tightening more.Sometimes it’s about relearning how to move, coordinate, breathe, and support your body again 🌸

Pelvic floor therapy is not failure.Your body may simply need a different strategy than “just strengthen harder.”

Vaginal estrogen has many ways it can help 🌸

For many women, it can support:
✨ moisture and comfort
✨ tissue health after estrogen decline
✨ the body’s natural defenses against recurrent UTIs
✨ comfort with intimacy
✨ overall vaginal and vulvar health
✨ and sometimes symptoms of urgency, frequency, and overactive bladder

One of the most important things to know: low-dose vaginal estrogen works locally and is different from systemic hormone therapy.

Women’s health deserves softness, education, and options 🤍