Elizabeth Kipp spent 40 years in chronic pain and 31 years on prescribed opioids and benzodiazepines—including fentanyl—until a pain-management track at the Betty Ford Center in 2013 catalyzed a complete turnaround. In this conversation, she unpacks the mind-body nature of chronic pain, the practical role of 12-Step recovery, yoga, breathwork, prayer/ancestral clearing, and the simple relapse-prevention principle that changed everything: staying in personal integrity. Listeners get a hopeful blueprint that blends science and spirituality with concrete next steps. 

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Guest Bio:  

Elizabeth Kipp is a stress-management and ancestral-trauma specialist, recovery coach, and author of The Way Through Chronic Pain: Tools to Reclaim Your Healing Power. A former research scientist, she lived with severe back injury, surgeries, and physician-prescribed opioids/benzodiazepines for decades before completing a pain-management program at the Betty Ford Center in 2013. Today, she coaches globally (virtual), teaches mind-body practices, and helps people in recovery rebuild calm, clarity, and resilience. 

Main Topics: 

·         Podathon for Recovery: 12 Days of Hope benefiting Rage Against Addiction

·         Defining addiction to chronic pain and the “stress habit”

·         Injury history, multiple surgeries, and 31 years on Rx opioids/benzos (incl. fentanyl)

·         Why opioids don’t heal chronic pain; breath, hydration, gut, and brain effects

·         Detox & pain-track at the Betty Ford Center; waking up with no back pain

·         Chronic pain as brain processing; limits of reductionist medicine

·         Memory/cognition impacts of chronic pain—and how they recover

·         Recovery toolkit: NA/AA, 12 Steps, Recovery 2.0, yoga, breathwork, prayer/ancestral clearing

·         Coaching insights: readiness to sponsor; a client shame-to-healing vignette

·         Relapse prevention: “Stay in integrity with yourself”

·         How to work with Elizabeth (virtual coaching) and where to find her online  

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