Believe the Diagnosis But Not the Prognosis | Elizabeth Kipp on Healing From the Inside Out

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