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Reclaim Agency with Doula Erica Paulson

Published: March 26, 2026

Duration: 40:06

In today's episode of Health Youniversity, Dr. Susan Fox sits down with Erica Paulson — doula, certified clinical hypnotherapist, prenatal bonding specialist, and founder of Nurture — for a conversation that goes far beyond what most people think birth support looks like.

Erica is a hypno-birthing educator, a childbirth advocate, and — perhaps less expectedly — an award-winning poet. Today, she blends the science and the soul of birth as one experience. 

This episode is about what happens when birth is treated as a nervous system experience, not just a medical one. What changes when a woman walks into labor pre...