Career Misalignment, Addiction, and Learning to Listen to Your Body | Kathryn Eipl

Kathryn Eipl was standing on a rooftop watching thousands of people pour into the park she'd spent months building. It was opening night. It was the moment she'd worked toward her entire adult life. And she felt almost nothing.

That emptiness didn't go away when she ignored it. It just got louder. In this episode, Kathryn traces the years she spent managing that feeling with drinking, overwork, and busyness, until the avoidance stopped working and she had to start paying attention to what her body had been saying all along. We talk about what it actually looks like to leave a lucrative career you trained for: the doubt, the family pushback, and the identity confusion of not knowing who you are without the role you built.

We also talk about how Kathryn developed the Neuro-Resonance Method™ — a nervous system regulation approach drawing on yoga, Reiki, sound healing, and cognitive behavioral techniques — and she didn't create this from a business plan. She discovered her new path by working through her own disorientation over roughly 18 months.

This is a story about what happens when the gap between how your life looks and how it feels grows too wide to keep crossing.

If you've ever built something that should feel like enough — and noticed it doesn't — Kathryn's story is a reminder that the gap between your life on paper and your life in the body is information worth reading.

HIGHLIGHTS

00:00 KiKi opens: what this show exists to do, and who Kathryn is

01:22 The rooftop moment: opening night, thousands arriving, feeling almost nothing

06:32 Staying stuck: drinking and smoking to avoid the misalignment

10:38 The 4am moment: "There has to be more to life than this"

13:00 Returning to yoga: first healthy way to quiet the noise

17:00 One student's comment lands harder than thousands of event attendees

22:00 Living a double life: two wardrobes, two identities, growing inner confusion

25:22 Walking off the overseas project and choosing to leave entertainment

32:42 The doubt out loud: leaving a lucrative career to be a yoga teacher in LA

38:21 How the Neuro-Resonance Method™ developed from her own life, not a plan

45:39 Breaking down the method: physical, mental, emotional, and energetic body

52:16 First step: stop judging your emotions; the two-minute timer practice

57:16 "The right time to start is when you're ready to choose yourself"

58:23 KiKi closes: breakdown is not the opposite of wisdom

RESOURCES:
E.I.P.L. Healing — Kathryn Eipl: https://eiplhealing.com/

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-eipl/

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About the Things Go Sideways Podcast

When life or leadership goes sideways, the story's just getting interesting.

Things Go Sideways with KiKi L'Italien features honest conversations with leaders, creators, and changemakers navigating disruption, uncertainty, and identity shifts. Each episode explores trust, resilience, and what it means to stay human when certainty breaks down.

New episodes share real stories about rebuilding agency and meaning without rushing to quick-fixes, spiritual bypassing, or pretending clarity comes easy.