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Pain to Power: Emotional Healing, Self-Love & Spiritual Growth
Pain to Power: Emotional Healing, Self-Love & Spiritual Growth is the podcast that helps you transform life’s hardest experiences into your greatest awakening.
Hosted by Jill Ripley — author of Empowered by the Storm - Releasing The Past And Embracing The Light — this show explores how to heal from trauma, release past pain, and reconnect with your true self. Through soulful conversations, personal reflections, and insightful interviews with experts, healers, and everyday people who have turned pain into purpose, you’ll gain tools to cultivate self-love, emotional resilience, and spiritual growth.
Each episode offers heartfelt guidance and practical wisdom to help you move beyond trauma, nurture your energy, and live with greater peace and purpose.
🎧 Tune in weekly for empowering stories and teachings on trauma recovery, emotional wellness, mindfulness, energy healing, and awakening to your highest self.
🎧 New episodes weekly
📘 Learn more at empoweredbythestorm.com
📚 Available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts & Amazon
📖 Check out my book: Empowered by the Storm – available on Amazon
Pain to Power: Emotional Healing, Self-Love & Spiritual Growth
023 Refusing to surrender how Dan Cummings turned paralysis into purpose
When a devastating diving accident left Dan Cummings paralyzed from the chest down, doctors told him he would never walk again. But Dan refused to surrender.
Instead, he packed up his life, moved across the country to California, and committed to four years of intensive rehabilitation — training for hours a day to reclaim the strength, movement, and hope everyone said was gone for good.
Through that journey, he not only learned to walk again but discovered his life’s mission: to bring that same level of possibility and purpose to others through Journey Forward, a comprehensive paralysis recovery center in Canton, Massachusetts.
In this powerful conversation, Dan shares the mindset that helped him rise above victimhood, the spiritual and emotional strength behind his recovery, and the heart of the mission that’s helping others do the same.
If you’ve ever faced a moment that tried to define you — this episode will remind you that the human spirit can always rise, rebuild, and choose purpose over pain.
✨ Listen now to be inspired by Dan’s story of resilience, courage, and the power of never giving up.
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