You Are More Than Your Pain: Reclaiming Identity, Self-Worth, and Post-Traumatic Growth

Welcome to the She Saves Herself Podcast. In today’s powerful conversation, Shannon sits down with Dr. Jennifer Caspari, author of You Are More Than Your Body, to explore what it really means to heal, emotionally, spiritually, and physically, when your body feels like a battlefield. Jennifer was born three months premature and lives with cerebral palsy. Navigating the world as a disabled person and working as a licensed clinical psychologist, she brings a rare and deeply personal insight into the healing process. Her lived experience, combined with her professional training, offers a compassionate, empowering lens for anyone struggling to reclaim their identity after illness, injury, or emotional trauma. Jennifer reminds us that we are not broken. We are not our diagnosis. We are not what happened to us. And healing doesn’t mean going back to who we were, it means becoming someone new, someone wiser, someone freer.