Perspective Shifts for Healing with The Hanged Women

As part of the summer relaunch of Perspective Shifts for Healing with The Hanged Woman (formerly The Hanged Woman Podcast), host Julienne Irons re-releases this thought-provoking conversation with spiritual psychology–trained coach Joel Drazner. What if happiness isn’t something you achieve? What if peace isn’t waiting at the end of your healing journey? Joel shares the insight that transformed hi...

Host Julienne Irons relaunches the beloved Happiness series on Perspective Shifts for Healing with The Hanged Woman (formerly The Hanged Woman Podcast) with intuitive life coach Mackenzie Stewart of Mindset by Mackenzie. Together, they explore why happiness isn’t something we chase, but something we uncover by reconnecting with our authentic selves. After spending six years climbing the corporate...

Host Julienne Irons closes the self-worth and self-confidence series with shadow work and non-duality teacher Gavin Flanagan. Together, they explore why healing may not be about fixing ourselves, but about ending the exhausting job of rejecting parts of who we are. Gavin shares his journey through long-term meditation, sobriety, a personal breakdown, ayahuasca, holotropic breathwork, and living in...

Host Julienne Irons continues the self-worth series with art education consultant, curriculum designer, and EFT practitioner Emily Gopaul. Together, they explore identity, belonging, representation, code-switching, and the pressure to fit into predefined roles. Emily shares how culture, family, and representation shape our sense of self and why uncertainty isn’t something to fear, but a natural pa...

Host Julienne Irons continues the Self-Worth & Confidence series with dignity coach Marielle Fois, exploring the difference between self-worth as a belief and dignity as an embodied experience of inherent worth. Why do so many of us tie our value to productivity, perfection, achievement, or other people’s approval? Why does self-abandonment often feel safer than honoring our needs? And what ha...

Host Julienne Irons continues the Self-Worth & Confidence series with somatic life coach and Connecting with SuperKate host, SuperKate. Many of us think confidence looks like being productive, prepared, decisive, and always having the right answer. But what if some of what we’ve been calling confidence is actually anxiety, over-functioning, people-pleasing, or a nervous system working overtime...

Host Julienne Irons continues the Self-Worth & Confidence series with public speaking confidence coach Lilach Mendelovich, exploring what confidence actually is, how it differs from self-worth, and why confidence is a skill that can be trained rather than a trait you’re born with. Drawing from neuroscience, performance psychology, and intuitive self-trust, Lilach explains why confidence grows...

Why do so many of us tie our worth to achievements, relationships, appearance, productivity, or other people’s approval? In the first episode of our Self-Worth & Confidence series, host Julienne Irons sits down with licensed marriage and family therapist Alexsa Wicker, LMFT, to explore how self-worth is formed through core beliefs shaped by childhood experiences, family dynamics, culture, trau...

Host Julienne Irons closes the Love & Relationships arc with psychotherapist and energy healer Juanita Lepage, exploring why letting go can feel so difficult even when we know a relationship is no longer aligned. Blending Internal Family Systems therapy with energy healing, Juanita explains how emotional attachment lives not just in the mind, but also in the body, nervous system, and energetic...

Host Julienne Irons continues the Love & Relationships series with manifestation coach Sridaya Srivatsan, exploring why high-achieving women who thrive professionally can still feel stuck in dating and relationships. In this episode, they break down what “aligned love” actually means: a relationship where you feel safe, grounded, and fully yourself, with a shared capacity for emotional intimac...

Host Julienne Irons continues the Love & Relationships series with trauma-informed financial wellness coach Katy Chen Mazarra, exploring how money issues in relationships are rarely about numbers and are deeply connected to childhood experiences, nervous system safety, and identity. In this episode, Katy shares how growing up with conflicting money dynamics shaped her own patterns and explains...

Host Julienne Irons continues the Love & Relationships arc through the scientific lens with therapist and author Jessica Fern, exploring how attachment shapes the way we experience love. In this conversation, Jessica breaks down attachment as a biological brain and nervous system process involving safety, reward, and threat detection, and how early caregiving experiences form the templates we...

Host Julienne Irons continues the Love & Relationships arc by exploring how non-monogamy and kink can offer powerful lessons in communication, consent, and boundaries. In this conversation, therapist Dr. Kat Valentine breaks down the differences between BDSM/kink and ethical non-monogamy, emphasizing that consensual non-monogamy is not cheating, but a relationship structure built on transparen...

What does healthy masculinity actually look like in a relationship, and why does safety matter so much in love? In this episode of Perspective Shifts for Healing with The Hanged Woman, host Julienne Irons sits down with relational guide Mike Elliott, whose work centers on helping men and couples build deeper trust, emotional safety, and real intimacy. Mike’s approach is rooted in his own lived exp...

How does the father wound shape your relationship with money? In this episode of Perspective Shifts for Healing, host Julienne Irons explores the connection between father energy, ancestral patterns, and financial behavior with Vangile Makwakwa, founder of Wealthy Money. Vangile shares how her background in finance, combined with the lived experience of panic attacks and worsening finances, led he...

How does the father wound show up in your birth chart? In this episode of Perspective Shifts for Healing, host Julienne Irons explores the energetic and astrological dimensions of the father wound with astrologer Lumea Light. Using Julienne’s chart as a real-time example, this conversation shows how astrology can reveal patterns around identity, authority, belonging, and self-trust. Rather than tr...

  What actually happens in the brain and nervous system when someone carries a father wound? In this bonus companion episode of Perspective Shifts for Healing, host Julienne Irons welcomes trauma-informed neuroscience expert Dr. D’Marti Burgos back to the show to answer listener questions about the father wound. This conversation expands on the main science episode featuring Joshua Rivedal, offeri...

How does the father wound shape identity, attachment patterns, and the nervous system? In this episode of Perspective Shifts for Healing, host Julienne Irons explores the science behind the father wound through the lived story of mental health advocate Joshua Rivedal and the trauma-informed neuroscience insights of Dr. D’Marti Burgos. This conversation examines how early relationships with fathers...

How does the father wound live in the body? In Part 2 of our Father Wound series, host Julienne Irons explores how early attachment wounds show up in our nervous system with Inner Child Healer Stella Dove. This episode looks at how childhood experiences with paternal absence, inconsistency, or emotional shutdown can leave deep nervous system imprints that shape how we react in relationships, leade...

What is the father wound, and how does it quietly shape our identity, relationships, confidence, and need for approval? In Part 1 of our Father Wound series, host Julienne Irons sits down with social scientist and psychotherapist Dr. Karima Joy for a compassionate, grounded exploration of paternal absence, emotional neglect, and the hidden grief of what didn’t happen. This conversation reframes th...

This is the final episode in our Mother Wound series. In this powerful, energetic conversation, Julienne Irons is joined by Leah Sonaria (The Flow Priestess) to explore healing the Mother Wound through the archetype of Kali Ma. Leah shares how Kali entered her life during a dark night of the soul, navigating heartbreak, business stress, and returning home to live with her mother, opening a deeper...

How your relationship with your mother shapes your relationship with money, and how healing that root can change everything. In this episode, Julienne Irons and Michelle Atlas explore money attachment styles, self-worth, and what it really means to receive. Rather than focusing on budgeting or surface-level money tips, this episode explores how early attachment with our mother shapes our sense of...

In this episode of Perspective Shifts for Healing with The Hanged Woman, host Julienne Irons explores how astrology can be used as a powerful tool for healing the Mother Wound. Joined by astrologer Lumea Light, this conversation looks at how the birth chart reveals emotional inheritance, early attachment patterns, and the ways the Mother Wound shows up across a lifetime. Together, they explore the...

In this guided Mother Wound Healing meditation, Dr. D’Marti Burgos offers a gentle, grounding practice to support nervous system regulation, self-love, and emotional safety.   This meditation is rooted in the intention of choosing the highest love for yourself, others, and the planet. Through breath awareness, body relaxation, and compassionate presence, you’re invited to soften fear-based pattern...

In Part 2 of our Science exploration of the Mother Wound, Julienne Irons continues the conversation with neuroscientist and trauma expert Dr. D’Marti Burgos on Perspective Shifts for Healing with The Hanged Woman. This episode dives deeper into how early attachment experiences shape the nervous system, self-worth, and emotional patterns across generations. Dr. Burgos walks listeners through a six-...