Perspective Shifts for Healing with The Hanged Women
Perspective Shifts for Healing is a personal growth, self-worth, and emotional healing podcast that helps you understand yourself more deeply and create lasting change.
Hosted by Julienne Irons, each episode explores the hidden patterns behind your relationships, confidence, money, grief, identity, happiness, and nervous system responses. Through honest conversations with therapists, coaches, scientists, healers, and thought leaders, you’ll discover why you think, feel, and react the way you do, and how to move forward with greater self-awareness and self-trust.
Every theme is explored through practical, scientific, and energetic lenses, offering a balanced approach to healing, personal development, and transformation. Whether you’re working through relationship challenges, building self-worth, navigating grief, improving emotional regulation, or creating a healthier relationship with money, you’ll find tools, insights, and perspective shifts you can apply in everyday life.
If you’re ready to break old patterns, stop second-guessing yourself, and approach life with more clarity, confidence, and compassion, you’re in the right place.
Perspective is Power.
Episodes

4 days ago
4 days ago
1hr 15 min
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 inspiring conversation with transformational coach Raquel Veisaga.
What if happiness isn't something you chase...
What if it's something that's been there all along, hidden beneath the noise?
Raquel introduces the idea of "static"—the fears, stories, survival patterns, and meanings we assign to life's challenges that pull us away from our natural state of joy. Together, she and Julienne explore heart-brain coherence, nervous system regulation, breathwork, meditation, journaling, and the power of redefining the blueprint we've inherited for what happiness is supposed to look like.
If you've ever felt like life keeps getting in the way of your happiness, this conversation offers a powerful reminder that sometimes the greatest shift isn't changing your circumstances—it's changing the meaning you give them.
Whether you're listening for the first time or revisiting this episode with fresh ears, you'll walk away with practical tools for quieting the static and reconnecting with your own inner frequency.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Welcome & Happiness Series
01:13 Three of Cups Healing
02:13 Meet Raquel Veisaga
04:47 What Is "Static"?
07:19 Happiness as a Frequency
09:10 Healing Through Reframing
12:09 Heart-Brain Coherence
18:30 Your Happiness Blueprint
22:39 Purpose vs. Presence
27:09 Where Science Meets Spirit
33:02 Redefining Happiness
36:13 Midroll
38:07 Recognizing Life's Static
38:49 Scarcity vs. Abundance
40:03 Embodying Presence
42:35 Why Breath Changes Everything
46:23 Using Breath During Crisis
50:04 Releasing Fear
54:20 Staying Happy During Chaos
59:05 Heart-Mind Coherence
01:02:08 The ARCHIE Framework
01:08:03 Human • Superhuman • Divinity
01:10:38 Defining Happiness
01:13:22 Closing Reflection
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🙌🏽 Connect with Raquel Veisaga here:
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Jul 14, 2026
Jul 14, 2026
1hr 21 min
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 fascinating conversation with physician and neuroscience enthusiast Dr. D’Marti Burgos.
Can happiness actually be trained?
According to neuroscience, the answer is yes.
Dr. Burgos explains how happiness isn’t controlled by a single “happy chemical,” but by an entire orchestra of brain regions working together. She breaks down why negativity bias, trauma, chronic stress, comparison, and rumination make happiness harder to access, while showing how small, science-backed practices can literally rewire the brain for greater joy, resilience, and emotional regulation.
Together, they explore the brain-body connection, the surprising role of the amygdala, vagus nerve, gratitude, flow states, exercise, and neuroplasticity, offering practical tools you can begin using today to create lasting change.
Whether you’re discovering this conversation for the first time or listening again with fresh ears, this episode is a hopeful reminder that what you practice today helps shape the brain you’ll have tomorrow.
If this conversation inspired you, Dr. D’Marti Burgos has created a free HEARTS Happiness Workbook that blends neuroscience, psychology, and contemplative wisdom to help you put these concepts into practice. You can download it on the Happiness page at dmartiburgos.com, where you’ll also find information about her upcoming Happiness Course.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Welcome & Happiness Series
01:30 Three of Cups Healing
02:24 Meet Dr. D’Marti Burgos
04:22 The Brain Orchestra Explained
10:47 Barriers to Happiness
12:48 Trauma, Genetics & Stress
16:14 Hedonic Adaptation
18:36 Medications & Mental Health
21:20 What Science Says Happiness Is
24:39 The ABC Model of Happiness
27:46 The Broaden-and-Build Theory
32:16 Happiness Chemicals Explained
33:38 Building Resilience
36:25 Rewiring the Brain
37:34 Gratitude & Loving-Kindness
41:24 Midroll
43:18 The Vagus Nerve & Stress Recovery
46:43 What Chronic Stress Does to the Brain
50:45 Science-Backed Coping Tools
57:26 Finding Flow
01:01:51 When Happiness Feels Impossible
01:06:00 Micro Acts of Joy
01:09:12 Neurosustainability
01:12:47 One Habit to Start Today
01:16:00 Defining Happiness
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🙌🏽 Connect with Dr. D’Marti Burgos here
Website: www.Dmartiburgos.com
Instagram: @dr.curlz
Email: behappy@dmartiburgos.com
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Jul 7, 2026
Jul 7, 2026
59 min
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 his life: our feelings don’t come from our circumstances—they come from our thinking. From there, he introduces a radically simple understanding of awareness, challenging the belief that happiness lives somewhere outside ourselves.
Together, they explore the illusion of separation, why we spend our lives chasing fulfillment, how relationships change when we stop expecting others to make us happy, and why the peace we’re searching for may have been here all along.
Whether you’re hearing this conversation for the first time or revisiting it with fresh ears, this re-release offers a powerful invitation to stop searching and begin noticing.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Welcome & Happiness Series 01:29 Three of Cups Healing 02:29 Meet Joel Drazner 04:07 Why Circumstances Don’t Create Feelings 06:03 Thinking Creates Experience 09:41 The Peace Beneath Every Emotion 13:12 Radical Simplicity 15:32 Why We Chase Happiness 18:21 The Illusion of Separation 21:21 Experiencing Oneness 24:16 Seeing Beyond Labels 27:46 Awareness & the Senses 28:53 One Shared Experience 30:24 Midroll 32:20 Happiness as Awareness 33:47 Watching Thoughts & Emotions 37:25 Free Will & Control 42:09 “I Am” Awareness Practice 46:49 Relationships Without Attachment 52:08 Nothing Outside of Me 55:45 What Happiness Really Is 58:20 Closing Reflections
Perspective Shifts for Healing with The Hanged Woman is presented by 3 of Cups Healing.
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🙌🏽 Connect with Joel Drazner
Website: joeldrazner.com
Substack: No Point B! — https://thedraz.substack.com/
If you’d like to explore these ideas more deeply, Joel recommends Living in Peace, Living as Peace by Rupert Spira—a 33-minute guided meditation accompanied by a PDF that invites you to recognize the peace already present within you, independent of circumstances. It’s available for $10 at spirastore.gumroad.com/l/livinginpeace. You can also explore more of Rupert’s work on Substack at transparencyofthings.substack.com.

Jun 30, 2026
Jun 30, 2026
54 min
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 ladder while battling anxiety, perfectionism, and constant self-doubt, Mackenzie shares the moment she realized success wasn’t the same as fulfillment. She introduces her powerful four-step From Fear to Freedom framework, showing how curiosity, aligned action, and purpose can transform fear into growth.
They discuss limiting beliefs, intuition, therapy versus coaching, people-pleasing, purpose, and why the life that truly fulfills us often begins the moment we stop living according to everyone else’s expectations.
Whether you’re feeling stuck in your career, questioning your purpose, or simply longing for more joy, this conversation offers practical tools to help you reconnect with yourself and move toward a happier, more meaningful life.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Welcome & Happiness Series Introduction
00:40 Meet Mackenzie Stewart
02:42 From Marketing Career to Life Coach
07:01 Blending Science & Spirituality
08:28 What Happiness Really Means
09:54 Why We Should Stop Avoiding Fear
13:44 Curiosity Instead of Judgment
15:29 Purpose Creates Fulfillment
18:11 A Holistic Approach to Coaching
21:36 Therapy vs. Life Coaching
24:24 Learning to Trust Your Intuition
27:23 Midroll
29:17 Why Misalignment Makes Us Miserable
31:18 The From Fear to Freedom Framework
33:16 Rewriting Your Story
35:21 Taking the Next Brave Step
37:29 A Powerful Client Transformation
41:12 The Practice of Curiosity
43:37 Daily Rituals & Oracle Cards
46:10 Collective Card Pull: “Align with Your Purpose”
51:52 What Happiness Means to Mackenzie
53:28 Closing Reflections
Perspective Shifts for Healing with the Hanged Woman is presented by 3 of Cups Healing
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Jun 24, 2026
Jun 24, 2026
1hr 14 min
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 his car, experiences that transformed his understanding of identity, suffering, and self-worth. They unpack the difference between intellectual shadow work and energetic shadow work, why trying to get rid of anxiety and other “negative emotions” can actually intensify them, and how fear, grief, and discomfort may be misunderstood forms of energy rather than problems to solve.
Julienne opens up about her own experience with morning anxiety, and Gavin introduces the practice of self-inquiry, questioning thoughts, and learning to feel emotions directly rather than endlessly analyzing them. Together, they explore non-duality, spiritual bypassing, unconditional love, and how self-worth shifts when we stop chasing fulfillment somewhere else and begin meeting ourselves exactly where we are.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Welcome and Introduction 01:31 Sponsor: Marketing Clarity 02:20 Meet Gavin Flanagan 04:50 What Is Shadow Work? 07:39 Why Fighting Anxiety Makes It Worse 10:59 The Real Meaning of Unconditional Love 13:36 Losing Everything and Finding Identity 15:46 Is Anxiety Really Anxiety? 20:17 Why the Mind Isn’t Always Right 22:37 The River Crossing Metaphor 27:20 Midroll and Offers 29:17 Intellectual vs Energetic Shadow Work 30:26 Chasing “Other” and Losing Yourself 33:47 Self-Inquiry and Non-Duality 35:08 Questioning the Inner Critic 37:15 Thoughts Aren’t Facts 38:48 Testing Stories Against Reality 40:55 The Observer and the Voice in Your Head 44:21 What Is Non-Duality? 49:50 Meeting the Shadow Instead of Rejecting It 50:49 Discomfort, Fear, and Life Transitions 54:32 Relationships, Identity, and Self-Worth 57:10 Grounded Spiritual Awakening 01:02:09 How to Begin Shadow Work 01:05:38 Finding Peace in Uncertainty 01:11:22 Final Reflections
Perspective Shifts for Healing with the Hanged Woman is presented by 3 of Cups Healing
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Jun 16, 2026
Jun 16, 2026
1hr 7 min
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 part of being alive. They discuss being single and child-free in midlife, decision fatigue, creativity, loneliness, and how self-worth can become more stable when we stop demanding fixed answers about who we are and allow ourselves to be fully in process.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Welcome and Setup
01:20 Marketing Clarity Ad
02:03 Meet Emily Gopal
02:38 Emily’s Work and Roots
06:59 What Is Identity
12:27 Representation Shapes Belonging
17:20 Not Fitting In
18:37 Assimilation and Code Switching
23:23 Uncertainty and Self Worth
32:42 Midroll Break and Ads
34:25 Back to Representation
34:41 Why Representation Matters
36:27 When Representation Is Missing
38:05 Permission for Nuance
40:39 Peace Space and Creativity
43:15 Beyond Labels and Scripts
44:57 Decision Fatigue and Freedom
47:40 Grounded While In Process
50:45 Journals and Shifting Goals
53:54 EFT and Emotional Clues
01:00:45 Building Belonging Practices
01:02:47 Core Truth and Alignment
01:05:03 Where to Find Emily
01:05:52 Final Reflections and Teaser
Perspective Shifts for Healing with the Hanged Woman is presented by 3 of Cups Healing
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Website: https://theprimaryartclass.com/
IG: @theprimaryartclass
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-gopaul-7169971a4/

Jun 10, 2026
Jun 10, 2026
41 min
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 happens when we stop treating our lives as evidence for whether we’re enough?
In this conversation, Julienne and Marielle explore the “inner courtroom,” the internal space where mistakes become verdicts, accomplishments become requirements, and our worth is constantly put on trial. Together, they discuss perfectionism, people-pleasing, self-abandonment, boundaries, nervous system safety, and what it means to live from a place of intact worth rather than in pursuit of worth.
Marielle explains why affirmations, journaling, and mindset work can build awareness but don’t always change what the body has learned, and how dignity work creates an opening for a deeper, more embodied experience of self-respect.
One of the biggest perspective shifts from this conversation:
You are inherently worthy of respect. You don’t need permission to exist, and you don’t need to apologize for taking up space in the universe.
In This Episode
00:00 Welcome and Dignity Introduction 01:33 Sponsor: Marketing Clarity 02:23 Meet Marielle Fois 06:16 Self-Worth vs. Dignity 10:53 The Inner Courtroom Explained 12:14 How We Negotiate Our Worth 14:35 Why Self-Abandonment Feels Safe 20:22 Why Knowing Isn’t Always Living 24:20 What Dignity Feels Like in the Body 27:50 Midroll Course and Consultation 29:56 What Changes When We Live From Dignity 33:18 Becoming Unavailable for Less 35:50 Reconnecting With Intact Worth 37:30 Core Truth and Final Takeaways 39:33 Where to Find Marielle 40:06 Final Reflection and Next Week
Perspective Shifts for Healing with the Hanged Woman is presented by 3 of Cups Healing
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✨ Find out more about our Healing After Loss course here 👉🏽
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🙌🏽 Connect with Marielle Fois here 👉🏽
Website: www.mariellefois.com, where you can learn about her The Standing in Dignity Workshop and get her free resource The Inner Courtroom: The pattern that turns your circumstances into verdicts about your worth
IG: @mariellefois

Jun 2, 2026
Jun 2, 2026
56 min
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 to keep us safe?
In this conversation, Julienne and SuperKate explore the difference between performative confidence and regulated confidence, how high-functioning anxiety can disguise itself as competence, and why so many of us tie our worth to achievement, productivity, and other people’s approval.
Together, they discuss nervous system regulation, fawn responses, over-explaining, over-apologizing, perfectionism, burnout, performance-based identity, and the subtle ways dysregulation influences everything from emails and conversations to decision-making and self-trust.
They also explore how regulation changes our relationship with failure, intuition, rest, presence, and connection, and why true confidence isn’t about becoming more impressive, but about feeling safe enough to be yourself.
One of the biggest perspective shifts from this conversation:
What if you’re not lacking confidence? What if you’re just dysregulated?
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Welcome and Setup
01:15 Sponsor Message
02:12 Meet SuperKate
02:37 The Snowy Origin Story
06:58 When Worth Becomes Tied to Work
09:27 Redefining Confidence
11:18 When Anxiety Looks Like Confidence
15:08 Understanding Nervous System Dysregulation
16:25 The Email Spiral Explained
20:11 Signs of False Confidence
23:53 High-Functioning Anxiety & Self-Worth
25:38 Masking, Performing & Dissociation
28:13 Mid-Episode Break
30:01 Understanding the Fawn Response
31:09 Why We Over-Explain
33:17 Letting Go of “Does That Make Sense?”
34:43 Over-Apologizing & Taking Up Space
36:55 Managing Other People’s Reactions
39:41 Adrenaline vs. Regulated Confidence
44:27 Performance-Based Identity
46:05 What Changes When We Regulate
51:19 Start With One Breath
53:47 Final Thoughts on Confidence & Self-Worth
Perspective Shifts for Healing with the Hanged Woman is presented by 3 of Cups Healing
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May 26, 2026
May 26, 2026
1hr 26 min
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 through evidence and experience, why affirmations often fail when the brain lacks proof, and how small wins create the foundation for lasting confidence. Together, they explore performance anxiety, perfectionism, comparison, nervous system regulation, and the surprising reason authenticity creates more confidence than trying to appear confident.
The conversation also dives into interoception, the body’s internal guidance system, and how learning to trust your own signals can help you distinguish between growth, fear, and misalignment.
If you’ve ever struggled with self-doubt, imposter syndrome, comparison, or feeling like confidence comes naturally to everyone but you, this episode offers practical tools and a powerful perspective shift:
Confidence isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Confidence Is a Skill 01:18 Sponsor Break 02:26 Meet Lilach Mendelovich 05:11 Performance Anxiety Statistics 06:12 Three Types of Confidence 09:12 Self-Worth vs. Confidence 11:17 Reframing Failure as Learning 17:06 The Science of Efficacy 20:56 Why Affirmations Often Fail 26:45 Building Confidence Through Small Wins 30:24 Presence, Connection & Authenticity 34:26 Befriending Your Nerves 38:49 Why Perfection Blocks Connection 40:30 Connection Over Perfection 41:39 Permission to Be Yourself 43:40 Leaning Into Your Natural Strengths 48:45 Midroll Break & Sponsors 50:33 Working With Anxiety Instead of Against It 53:08 Building Confidence One Step at a Time 55:39 Healthy vs. Toxic Comparison 59:59 Intrinsic Goals vs. External Validation 01:04:51 Peace, Confidence & Resilience 01:06:06 Interoception & Intuitive Self-Trust 01:08:32 Growth Discomfort vs. Misalignment 01:15:55 What Integrated Confidence Looks Like 01:17:20 A Daily Exercise for Building Confidence 01:20:49 Why Self-Compassion Matters 01:25:10 Closing Thoughts & Next Episode
Perspective Shifts for Healing with the Hanged Woman is presented by 3 of Cups Healing
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LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lilach-mendelovich
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May 20, 2026
May 20, 2026
1hr 9 min
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, trauma, religion, racism, and societal conditioning.
Together they discuss why external validation can become addictive, how comparison keeps us stuck in self-doubt, the impact of sexual assault and trauma on identity and self-worth, and practical CBT-informed tools for identifying inherited beliefs and building a more grounded sense of self.
One of the most powerful questions from this conversation:
“Whose voice is this?”
Because sometimes the thoughts we believe are ours were inherited from parents, partners, teachers, culture, or past experiences.
In This Episode:
✔ How self-worth is formed ✔ Why external validation feels so powerful ✔ The connection between trauma and identity ✔ How comparison impacts confidence ✔ CBT tools for changing thought patterns ✔ Journaling practices for self-awareness ✔ Living from your values instead of others’ expectations
Content Advisory: This episode includes discussion of sexual assault, trauma, and their impact on identity and self-worth.
#SelfWorth #Confidence #MentalHealth #Therapy #CBT #PersonalGrowth #Healing #SelfConfidence #TraumaHealing #PerspectiveShifts
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Welcome and Theme 01:29 Content Warning 02:01 Sponsor Marketing Clarity 02:58 Meet Alexa Wicker 03:45 CBT and Core Beliefs 06:06 How Self Worth Forms 08:08 Whose Voice Is It 09:38 External Validation Roots 14:13 Stuck in the Loop 16:49 Signs of Validation Seeking 17:47 Systems Shaping Worth 21:44 Racism and Scarcity Mindset 24:12 Trauma and Self Worth 29:29 Break and Course Promo 31:35 Comparison and Self Worth 33:45 Why Patterns Persist 34:30 Im Not Smart Enough 35:30 Brains Learn Differently 36:53 Long Division Thinking 39:00 Sitting With Emotions 42:02 Pause Before Reacting 43:52 Check The Story 47:07 Journaling Your Patterns 52:35 Changing Thoughts Daily 59:16 Living By Your Values 01:01:28 Whose Voice Is That 01:05:14 Closing Takeaways
Perspective Shifts for Healing with the Hanged Woman is presented by 3 of Cups Healing
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✨ Find out more about our Healing After Loss course here 👉🏽
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