Episode Details

Elizabeth Kipp grew up thinking she had missed the instructions. The handbook for how to be a person that everyone else seemed to have. She was educated, capable and high-functioning on the outside. Overwhelmed almost constantly on the inside. And quietly convinced that something must be wrong with her.

In this conversation Elizabeth traces the arc from a childhood of walking on eggshells, through four decades of chronic pain, addiction, two spinal fusions and a medical system that told her she would never be free from it, to the moment she decided to believe the diagnosis but not the prognosis.

She talks about what a nervous system stuck in chronic pain actually feels like from the inside, the ancestral grief she carried for sixty years without knowing what it was, and the daily practices that eventually cleared forty years of chronic pain in fifty-two days.

She also teaches two of the simplest and most powerful breathing techniques I have heard described on this podcast. You will want a pen for this one.

Elizabeth Kipp is a stress management and historical trauma specialist, an addiction recovery coach and a trauma-informed practitioner. She is also the author of The Way Through Chronic Pain.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00  Opening  |  She thought she had missed the instructions

01:22  Welcome to Elizabeth Kipp

01:33  Growing up  |  walking on eggshells

03:00  We don't talk about that  |  the family mantra

05:00  Dyslexia, the ridiculing teachers and getting an A in calculus

09:04  High-functioning on the outside, overwhelmed on the inside

11:08  The chronic pain  |  what it actually is and where it starts

14:45  Born into separation  |  where the pattern began

17:00  The accident at 14  |  a broken spine she didn't know about for seven years

20:34  The nervous system in a constant state of bracing

21:45  The stress habit  |  what it looks like from the inside

23:00  The first full breath she had ever taken

25:08  Two breathing practices you can do right now

29:00  The morning breathing practice step by step

31:08  The mind follows the breath

33:37  Ancestral grief  |  what it actually feels like to carry it

36:00  The clearing  |  releasing what the lineage never processed

38:30  The grief of losing a career and making peace with the rock

43:45  I believe the diagnosis but not the prognosis

50:00  What the healing actually asked of her day to day

55:26  Fifty-two days, forty years of chronic pain gone

57:36  The daily practices that keep the nervous system calm

01:02:30  How to meditate when you can't stop thinking

01:03:06  There is nothing wrong with you  |  for anyone who recognises this

01:04:32  If someone has told you this is just how it is

01:05:04  Rachel's closing reflection

Guest links

Website https://Elizabeth-Kipp.com

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.kipp.3

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lizi.kipp/

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethkipp/

Substack https://substack.com/@sacredrebelle

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@elizabethkipp9855

The Way Through Chronic Pain Book:https://elizabethkippcom.simplero.com/page/125986

This episode is for anyone who has ever been told this is just how it is.