Brenda Staat-Tomlinson interviewed Elizabeth Kipp for the Mind, Body, Soul Mastery Podcast in Episode #9: “Elizabeth Kipp: Finding Your Authentic Voice in Trauma Recovery.”
Elizabeth and Brenda discuss the holistic approach to managing chronic pain, emphasizing the interconnectedness of the mind, body, and spirit. Elizabeth shares her personal journey of realizing that chronic pain is not just a physical issue but also a mental, emotional, and spiritual one. Brenda adds to this idea by emphasizing the role of resistance in perpetuating chronic pain and the importance of asking simple questions to shift perspective.
Episode Highlights:
Chronic pain management and the importance of accepting and transforming the experience.
- The journey from chronic pain to a trauma and addiction recovery coach.
- A personal experience with chronic pain, which affected Elizabeth’s life for 40 years.
- Chronic pain has a way of drawing attention away from everything else, including the people around us.
- When we identify with chronic pain, we feel powerless.
- Accepting the pain without resistance can lead to transformation and transmutation rather than more chronic pain.
Mind-body connection and how it relates to chronic pain management.
- Empowerment by a holistic doctor, Peter Przekop, D.O., who asked her to consider her role in her own healing.
- Kipp’s resistance to the doctor’s question revealed her protective attitude and lack of self-awareness.
- Experience of shifting from victimhood to empowerment during a conversation with a friend who lost a loved one suddenly.
- Kipp realizes that she had been judging her chronic pain as bad and tries to get rid of it, but then she learns to just be with it and experience it without judgment.
- Elizabeth Kipp explains the interconnectedness of mind, body, and soul in finding your authentic voice in trauma recovery.
Finding your authentic voice in trauma recovery through the mind, body, and soul connection
- Speaker 1 and Elizabeth Kipp discuss the connection between mind, body, and soul, and how trauma can lead to chronic pain and disconnection.
- Elizabeth Kipp shares her personal journey of healing from 40 years of chronic pain through a program that helped her rewire her brain and connect with her true self.
- Elizabeth Kipp reconciles her research scientist background with her spiritual beliefs by recognizing the interconnectedness of the mind, body, and soul.
- Kipp believes she is a spiritual being having a human experience, and sees evidence of this interconnectedness in the natural world and in the behavior of animals.
- Brenda discusses learning to listen to one’s inner truth and finding balance in life through meditation and yoga practice.
Managing stress and growth through mindfulness and self-awareness to find your authentic voice
- Elizabeth shares insights on how to handle challenges and grow through them and so rediscovered her authentic voice.
