I don’t remember much from the accident I only know that it drastically and dramatically changed my life. While at a friend’s house, I fell, hit my chin on the way down, and knocked myself out. My concussion occurred on February 19, 2017. “I know that I am not my body, and I also know that you aren’t yours.” Shepherd stresses the power and importance of the human spirit and that we are more than our physical limitations. Click here to listen to her full TED talk: “A Broken Body isn’t a Broken Person” - it’s one of my favourites.Īlthough my story is very different from and definitely not as inspirational as Shepherd’s, I can absolutely relate to her and her message. She is now a best-selling author and a heavily sought after motivational speaker. Within the year, she had earned her pilot’s license. I looked up, and I thought to myself, 'That's it! If I can't walk, then I might as well fly.'" Sitting at home in my wheelchair and my plaster body cast, an airplane flew overhead. And that realization was about to change my life. I was free to explore life's infinite possibilities. And then I stopped asking, 'Why me?' And I started to ask, 'Why not me?' And then I thought to myself, maybe being at rock bottom is actually the perfect place to start.Įven though I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do, in that uncertainty came a sense of freedom. “I had a choice: I could keep fighting this, or I could let go and accept not only my body, but the circumstances of my life. Yet, it was when she was at her lowest, that she found her will to live and the strength to move on: Not only would she never be able to ski competitively again, but she was also paralyzed from the waist down. When a car accident shattered her dreams of representing Australia in the 1988 Winter Olympics, Shepherd was devastated. I am confident that Janine Shepherd would give the same advice.
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