EP18 | Trauma, Birth & Recovery | Guest: Ahna Mikl, Birth Doula, Detox Specialist & Regenerative Health Practitioner

Birth doula Ahna Mikl joins Dr. Lipov to share how trauma shows up in the female body — and how SGB may offer a new path to healing, fertility, and nervous system repair.- - In this deeply personal and wide-ranging conversation, Dr. Eugene Lipov speaks with birth doula and regenerative health practitioner Ahna Mikl, who shares her own healing journey—and the profound impact of the Stellate Ganglion Block (SGB) in unlocking long-held trauma stored in the body. Together, they explore nervous system dysregulation, infertility, painful menstrual cycles, and how unresolved trauma can affect everything from digestion to sexual health to generational wellbeing.Ahna offers intimate reflections on postpartum depression, orgasms as healing, and the need to center maternal health in conversations about collective wellness. Dr. Lipov responds with accessible science, linking PTSD and sympathetic nervous system overdrive to infertility, IBS, vaginismus, and disrupted bonding.This episode lays the groundwork for an emerging collaboration between Ahna and Dr. Lipov to bring the benefits of SGB to women suffering from postpartum depression—offering hope, connection, and a reminder that healing is possible.