LDS Quadriplegic Featured in Short Film ‘Falling Up’

Meg Johnson’s fall off a 35 foot tall cliff in St. George rendered Johnson a C-7 quadriplegic, paralyzed from the chest down and without the use of her hands. Inspirational media outlet, nCOURAGE.tv, collaborated with Johnson with the purpose to “spread encouragement.” The team created the short film “Falling Up” about the challenges and triumphs that Johnson has experienced since...

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The Clean Cut: ‘Falling Up’ tells how one woman turned her life around after a paralyzing fall

Meg Johnson was walking along a red-rock path in St. George on March 6, 2004, when she hopped over what she thought was a small boulder and fell about 35 feet off a cliff. Johnson collaborated with nCourage.tv, whose mission is to...

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Filmmaker creates short film about service-oriented woman with paralysis

Meg Johnson became paralyzed in 2004 after she accidentally jumped off a cliff while hiking, and now, she says, if she had to do it all over again she would jump willingly. When local filmmaker Scott Wilhite heard Johnson, now a motivational speaker, author and mother, say this in a video interview with Seth Adam Smith, he was determined...

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