Where the voice and pelvic health connect — through science, story, policy, and whole-body healing.

The Vocal Pelvic Floor is a podcast about using voice as a tool for change—inside the body, inside healthcare, and across policy making and culture.

Hosted by Dr. Ginger Garner, a doctor of physical therapy, pelvic health specialist, and integrative care advocate, this podcast brings honest, necessary, and often-overlooked conversations about pelvic health into the open. But pelvic health is not just a clinical issue. It is also a policy issue, a storytelling issue, a justice issue, and a deeply human one.

Each episode brings together clinicians, researchers, policy experts, filmmakers, advocates, artists, and patients with lived experience to explore the conditions, systems, and stories that shape pelvic health. Topics include endometriosis, chronic pelvic pain, bladder and bowel health, sexual wellness, pregnancy and postpartum recovery, menopause, trauma-informed care, whole-body movement, medical gaslighting, access to care, and the cultural silence that keeps too many people suffering alone.

The Vocal Pelvic Floor means giving language to what has been dismissed, hidden, stigmatized, or misunderstood. It means recognizing that the voice and the pelvic floor are both connected to breath, safety, expression, power, and agency. And it means helping people reclaim not only function and comfort, but also confidence, pleasure, movement, and self-trust.

Through science, story, advocacy, and practical tools, this podcast helps listeners better understand their bodies, ask better questions, seek the care they deserve, and become part of a larger movement to change how pelvic health is seen, heard, treated, and believed.

If you’ve ever been told to “just live with it,” The Vocal Pelvic Floor is here to help you find your voice—and use it.

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Latest Episodes

  • The Estrogen-Gut Connection Every Woman Should Know with Kimberly Kushner

    By Ginger Garner• May 26, 2026
    About the Episode: Kimberly Kushner returns to The Vocal Pelvic Floor for a deeply validating and educational conversation on the connection between gut health, hormones, pelvic pain, libido, and chronic illness. Together with Dr. Ginger Garner, Kimberly explores how symptoms like bloating, constipation, fatigue, painful periods, low libido, and nervous system dysregulation are often interconnected—especially…
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  • Beyond Kegels: What Real Pelvic Pain Care Looks Like with Elizabeth Akincilar & Stephanie Prendergast

    By Ginger Garner• May 19, 2026
    About the Episode: In this episode, Dr. Ginger Garner is joined by pelvic health pioneers Stephanie Prendergast and Elizabeth “Liz” Akincilar, co-founders of the Pelvic Health and Rehabilitation Center (PHRC), for an honest and insightful conversation on pelvic pain, sexual health, and the ongoing gaps in healthcare education and treatment. Together, they discuss why conditions…
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  • Shedding Shame & Increasing Intimacy with Heather Florio

    By Ginger Garner• May 12, 2026
    About the Episode: Pelvic and sexual health are still treated as taboo – but that silence comes at a cost. In this episode, Dr. Ginger Garner sits down with Heather Florio, CEO of Desert Harvest and leading voice in women’s health advocacy, to break down the stigma surrounding pelvic pain, intimacy, and body awareness. Heather…
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