Podathon For Recovery: Elizabeth’s Road to Recovery

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. Sponsored by Rage Against Addiction 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  Resources mentioned: ·         Donate to Rage Against Addiction ·         Elizabeth’s website: elizabeth-kipp.com (spoken as “Elizabeth dash kip dot com”)·         The Way Through Chronic Pain: Tools to Reclaim Your Healing Power — by Elizabeth Kipp·         Betty Ford Center (Pain Management Track; Dr. Peter Przekop/“Prescott” referenced in conversation)·         Recovery 2.0 — Tommy Rosen; yoga + recovery community·         Narcotics Anonymous (NA) and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)·         Kundalini yoga practices; “long deep breathing”; morning prayer/ancestral clearing·         Kyphoplasty (mentioned during later spine procedure)Send us Fan MailCelebrate the Magic of Words in Bel Air, Maryland!https://bookfairatbelair.org/Rage Against AddictionRage Against Addiction is a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting addicts and their familiDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showRate & Review on Apple Podcasts Follow the Conversations with Rich Bennett podcast on Social Media:Facebook – Conversations with Rich Bennett Facebook Group (Join the conversation) – Conversations with Rich Bennett podcast group | FacebookTwitter – Conversations with Rich Bennett Instagram – @conversationswithrichbennettTikTok – CWRB (@conversationsrichbennett) | TikTokSponsors, Affiliates, and ways we pay the bills:Hosted on BuzzsproutSquadCastSubscribe by Email