In this powerful and deeply honest episode of the WORD Podcast, the hosts sit down with the incredible Jen Healy — spiritual mentor, manifestation coach, and former “Yin Yang Yoga Jen.”
Jen opens up about her transformative healing journey, from early trauma and addiction recovery to becoming a guide who helps others manifest purpose, abundance, and emotional freedom.
This episode is raw, real, emotional, and inspirational — a must-listen for anyone on a healing or spiritual journey.

🕒 Timecodes / Chapters
00:00 – 00:01 — Opening Banter
The hosts kick off with jokes, chaos, and welcoming listeners back after a week off.
00:01 – 00:03 — Introducing Guest Jen Healy
Who she is, how she arrived, and the story behind her former brand “Yin Yang Yoga Jen.”
00:03 – 00:05 — Reinventing Identity & Moving Beyond Labels
Why Jen dropped the yoga-only identity and stepped into coaching, energy work, and personal development.
00:05 – 00:07 — What Reiki Really Is
Energy transfer, levels of attunement, and what makes someone a Reiki master.
00:07 – 00:09 — Jen’s First Experiences with Healing
Receiving Reiki during incredibly dark years, trauma, emotional release, and the first feeling of safety.
00:09 – 00:12 — Addiction, Anxiety & Entering Cocaine Anonymous
How addiction showed up, blackout drinking, and discovering spiritual awakening through CA.
00:12 – 00:15 — Empaths, Intuition & Frequency
Understanding empath energy, audience energy, and intuition awakening.
00:15 – 00:18 — Manifestation Explained Simply
Bob Proctor, visualisation, the mind as energy, and why imagination is the key.
00:18 – 00:21 — When Your Brain Blocks Your Manifestation
Why people can’t attract what they want and the tool Jen uses to break the pattern.
00:21 – 00:24 — The Universe, Parallel Selves & Higher Consciousness
How Jen personally defines “the universe” and how it links to identity and purpose.
00:24 – 00:27 — The Science of Energy & Mushrooms
DMT, consciousness, elements of the universe, and healing through psychedelics and microdosing.
00:27 – 00:31 — Microdosing, Mental Health & Rewiring the Brain
A raw discussion about mushrooms, emotional numbness, and reconnecting to joy.
00:31 – 00:34 — Lifelong Healing & Ancestral Work
Why healing never fully ends and what changes after the personal layer is cleared.
00:34 – 00:41 — The Big Question: Are You Always “An Addict”?
A powerful conversation on the identity of addiction and whether you can ever truly outgrow it.
00:41 – 00:45 — Trauma, Generational Wounds & Learning to Feel Love
Jen’s emotional breakthrough where she felt maternal love for the first time.
00:45 – 00:50 — Shadow Work: The Part Nobody Talks About
What shadow work is, why it's essential, and how it changes identity and behaviour.
00:50 – 00:55 — Abuse in Healing Spaces
A vulnerable reveal: predatory behaviour she experienced from a therapist during early recovery.
00:55 – end — Closing Thoughts

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