Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostis, Sarah Nicole,

and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that.

So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital

space together. I am so happy. We have a return guest today, but it has been freaking

years since she's been on the show because she has been working so hard writing this

incredible book. She has been on the podcast before. Jane is here

talking about body grief and she has her new book coming out. It's actually by the time when

we're recording it hasn't come out. By the time you hear it, it has come out. This is body grief.

Jane, welcome back. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so happy to be back. I know Jane's story. I have been

following her for many years. And if you haven't heard that first episode, then you probably

don't know as well. So Jane, before we talk about the book and everything in it, let's actually

hear your story because it's truly a remarkable story. And I know you've been able to leverage

what has, you know, your life and like what has

happened with your body and everything that you've gone through. You've leveraged it in a way

to reach communities and people who have gone through similar things. And the thing I think is

so interesting about you is you're going through things that some people will relate to at your age,

but I also feel like you're preparing so many of us for what will eventually come for all of us,

which is essentially change and, you know, change that changes your life too, right?

So let's go back and retell the story of you and your story with body grief.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

So, you know, making a really long story short, I identify as newly disabled.

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