{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"How's Your Ma Podcast","title":"How's Your Ma: Episode 10","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3737,"description":"In this deeply moving episode, Orla and Leanne sit down with Mandy — known to many as \"Cher Mandy\" — a shamanic healer whose extraordinary life journey has taken her from the flats of Inchicore to the housing estates of Clondalkin, through grief, fear, addiction, and profound spiritual awakening.Mandy opens up about growing up as the middle child in a family of nine, feeling unseen and at war with herself from a young age. She shares the heartbreak of watching her sister Nicola get caught up in addiction and drugs, the raw grief of losing her, and the precious final year they shared together. She talks candidly about becoming a teenage mother at 16, struggling with postnatal depression, and the years she spent trying to survive rather than truly live — caught between bodybuilding, partying, and numbing pain she didn't yet have the tools to understand.From a Buddhist quote on a door that helped her manifest her first home, to a Reiki session on New Year's Eve that cracked everything open, Mandy traces the winding road that led her to shamanic healing — and to herself. She speaks with honesty and warmth about soul retrieval, ancestral wounds, past life healing, mediumship, and how her own lived experience now powers her work helping others release trauma, break generational cycles, and find their way home.A raw, real, and deeply human episode. Not one to miss.Timecodes:0:00 — Introductions: Meet Mandy, \"Cher Mandy\"0:53 — Where to begin: Growing up one of nine children in Inchicore and Clondalkin2:37 — Life as the middle child: feeling forgotten and at war with herself3:33 — Family breakdown, tension, and learning to fight to survive6:12 — Sister Nicola: addiction, loss, and the stolen soul8:28 — Nicola's final days and the grief of letting go12:46 — Becoming a teenage mother at 16: shock, isolation, and postnatal depression17:32 — The search for space, peace, and belonging21:41 — Spirituality enters: a Buddhist quote, a prayer, and getting her first home24:20 —...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/FUVDSkfVPC0QV4Qius2XwJXiLtOKT4vb9TebidaGyrI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mZGQ1/YmQ5MjYyMGQwMjhi/YTM0MTRiNDY1OTY1/MDIxMi5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}