Janine Shepherd: A Broken Body Is Not A Broken Person

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Janine Shepherd is an author, motivational speaker, and former Olympic-level skier whose work draws upon an incredible journey of personal healing. She details that journey—from the car accident that broke her spine through intense rehabilitation and beyond—in the Sounds True book Defiant: A Broken Body Is Not a Broken Person. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Janine talk about the active choice to be alive and the power in knowing that decision. They speak on what it means to be truly resilient, and how one can experience fear without being afraid of it. Finally, Janine explains the realization that she is more than just a body and how that has reshaped her view of death and dying. (55 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio
0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events.
0:14.3	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.2	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.2	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, guest is Janine Shepard.
0:45.2	Janine is a motivational speaker and author who draws on her experience of
0:50.1	rehabilitation as a walking paraplegic and former Olympic hopeful to share how she learned about
0:57.3	her own incredible strength in the process. Among other accreditation's Janine was awarded her country's highest civilian honor,
1:07.0	the Order of Australia, for her work in raising awareness of spinal cord research.
1:14.2	Janine is well known for her TEDx talk,
1:18.0	a broken body isn't a broken person,
1:21.4	which became the subtitle for her newest work which sounds true, a new book called Defiant,
1:28.8	which chronicles her remarkable journey and offers hope and encouragement for anyone facing a life challenge
1:35.0	sharing Janine's hard-won wisdom and priceless advice for navigating one's way
1:41.8	from loss to healing. In this episode of
1:45.2	Insights at the Edge, Janine and I spoke about being alive as a choice and the
1:51.8	power in knowing that.
1:54.3	We talked about her experience firsthand
1:58.4	of being more than her body
2:01.2	and how that experience has informed her view of death.
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