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Podathon For Recovery: Elizabeth’s Road to Recovery
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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
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Chapters
1. Intro: 12 Days of Hope & donate link (00:00:00)
2. Meet Elizabeth (name preferences) (00:00:56)
3. “Addicted to chronic pain” & stress habit (00:02:01)
4. Back injury, surgeries, years of unmanaged pain (00:02:52)
5. Prescribed opioids + benzos → long-term escalation (00:04:15)
6. Doctor options; finding Betty Ford pain program (00:05:20)
7. Detox surprise: back pain gone (00:07:57)
8. Why opioids don’t heal chronic pain (breath/gut/brain) (00:10:22)
9. Medical training limits; neuroplasticity context (00:13:30)
10. Later compression fracture; fentanyl/versed during kyphoplasty—no cravings after (00:13:47)
11. [Ad] PodMatch (00:17:19)
12. (Cont.) Later compression fracture; fentanyl/versed during kyphoplasty—no cravings after (00:17:56)
13. Chronic pain = brain processing; beyond the x-ray (00:18:43)
14. Career impact; six years bedridden; meditation helps (00:21:54)
15. Memory impairment from chronic pain—and recovery (00:25:23)
16. Recovery path: NA/AA, 12 Steps, Recovery 2.0, yoga (00:26:11)
17. Prayer & ancestral clearing; embodying prayer’s effects (00:31:59)
18. Nearly 12 years in recovery (00:33:20)
19. Breathwork: three minutes from “midnight to dawn” (00:36:22)
20. Coaching style; mostly virtual (00:38:43)
21. How to contact Elizabeth (website + free intro) (00:39:20)
22. When you’re ready to sponsor others (00:42:52)
23. Client story: shame, Step 4–5, and release (00:44:59)
24. Relapse prevention: stay in integrity (00:48:12)
25. Elizabeth’s book for pain & addiction (00:50:40)
26. Rage Against Addiction monthly donor program (how to join) (00:51:21)
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