Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill

009: A Broken Body is Not a Broken Person with Janine Shepherd


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“When you are at rock bottom it doesn't show you who you ARE it shows you who you are NOT”

Janine Shepherd was an elite athlete known as “Janine the Machine.” It was on a bike ride with her teammates while Training for the olympics that tragedy struck....she was hit by a truck head on.

Janine woke up 10 days later in the ICU with her neck and back broken in multiple places, collapsed bones and ribs and paralyzed from the waist down. She spent 6 months in the spinal ward trying to wrap her mind around what had happened to her. Her body - that body that had defined her - was no longer Janine the Machine.

With all consuming pain, no movement from the waist down, a catheter bottle that would become part of her, Janine recalls feeling like she was in another world - like she was in a life that was meant for someone else - not her.

In this episode, you will learn:

  • The mindset needed to overcome ANYTHING
  • How your physical doesn't define who you are
  • When your life becomes 'derailed' how do you create your next purpose
...more
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