Most people have never heard of pelvic floor physical therapy.

That’s not a small gap. For women living with chronic pelvic pain, PT isn’t optional. It’s what determines whether treatment lasts or fades.

Right now, it’s what we’re being asked to fund.

The Window and What Has to Happen Inside It

When a specialist like Dr. Babb treats pelvic pain with Botox, the medication creates a window. The muscles relax. The baseline shifts. But Botox isn’t a permanent fix. What happens inside that window, whether a woman can access consistent, qualified pelvic floor PT, determines whether the relief holds.

I know this not just as a founder, but as a patient. I had my own Botox treatment in March and have been working with a new pelvic floor physical therapist since the end of April. I can feel the difference it’s making this time.

What This Actually Looks Like

Erica is a past Aziza client whose Botox treatment we partially covered last winter. She isn’t the client whose PT we’re currently funding, but she agreed to share her journey so our donors could see clearly what this path looks like from the inside. Because we are funding this care for a woman who isn’t able to share her story publicly. And we wanted you to understand what you’re actually making possible.

Five months out from her Botox treatment with Dr. Babb, Erica is still in PT. Still doing the work. Learning to recognize when she’s clenching. Retraining muscle groups she didn’t know were connected. Doing internal work with dilators and manual therapy. Building the kind of body awareness that most of us are never taught.

Her pain isn’t gone. The road ahead is real. And she is still improving.

That’s what real recovery looks like for complex pelvic conditions. Slow. Unglamorous. Requiring consistent appointments and diligence with at-home exercises, which means requiring money, month after month, not just once.

Read Erica’s full story here.

What We Funded This Month

This month, The Aziza Project funded a pelvic floor physical therapy appointment for a client continuing her care.

That appointment is a woman getting to keep going. To keep building the coordination and strength that makes relief last. To stay in the process instead of falling out of it because the cost became too much.

That’s what your donation funds. Not just a door opened. A door that stays open.

We Are $46 Short of Our Monthly Goal

Our goal is $300 per month, the cost of funding one consultation every single month, reliably, so that when a woman finds us, we can say yes.

We are $46 away from that goal. We have been for a while.

That’s less than two people giving $25. If you’ve been meaning to give, this is the moment to close it. We fundraise through Zeffy, which means 100% of your donation goes directly to our mission.

Make a gift today.

There is a woman somewhere right now doing the hard, invisible work of healing. Showing up. Doing her exercises. Maintaining hope on days when it’s difficult.

She shouldn’t have to do it without access to care. You can help make sure she doesn’t.

Know you are mighty,

Stephanie Berman
Executive Director, The Aziza Project

Your gift is tax-deductible. The Aziza Project is a project of Visions Made Viable, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.