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 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. And for anyone who has wondered why they feel so much on the inside while looking so capable from the outside.