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Danielle Buckley Danielle Buckley, Registered and Coaching Psychologist. https://linktr.ee/DanielleBuckleyPsychologist

Helping high-achieves regulate anxiety, overthinking & burnout, and improve wellbeing — backed by real psychology, not trends.

13/08/2026

One hug. One moment of real attention. One small kind act. ☺️

That’s all it takes to shift your brain chemistry — dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, all rising together. Kindness doesn’t just feel good. It’s designed to feel good and do good.

Whether you are in a team, a relationship, with a family member or come across a stranger. A tiny tweak in your interaction can have powerful scientific benefits to you and the receiver 🧬

So here’s today’s challenge: pick one person, one small act, and watch what it does for both of you.

Be intentional and watch the bloom 💛🌱

10/08/2026

Tell yourself what you did well today. 🧠💛

Not toxic positivity — neuroscience.

When you name a specific win, you activate your brain’s reward pathways (dopamine) the same way external praise does. But self-generated praise builds something external validation can’t: a stable sense of self-worth that doesn’t depend on someone else noticing.

Intentionally focusing on what is good takes effort because we are wired toward the bad, or what’s not working. So today, choose what has gone well.

So name ONE thing. Not “I was productive.” Something specific.

“I sent that email I’d been avoiding.”
“I stayed calm when the meeting derailed.”
“I said no to something that wasn’t mine to carry.”

Your brain keeps score. Make sure you’re the one calling the plays. 💭

07/08/2026

Do you ever feel like you have a thousand mental tabs open — carrying the stress of one moment into the next? Whether at home, work or all the places in between? 😮‍💨

The Third Space is a technique by Dr. Adam Fraser that helps you reset in those in-between moments — before a meeting, walking through the front door, switching from one task to the next.

It’s just 3 simple steps and just a minute:
1️⃣ Reflect — how did that last moment go?
2️⃣ Rest — take a breath, let your body catch up
3️⃣ Reset — set an intention for what’s next

Three steps. A few seconds. And you move through your day so much more present. 🤍

I hope it help, I’ll be using it too 🧠🤩

Remember - You are what you think 💭 . Not what happened to you. Not what they said. What you keep telling yourself about...
06/08/2026

Remember - You are what you think 💭 .

Not what happened to you.
Not what they said.
What you keep telling yourself about it.

If you want to know more about your inner voice. Take my free anxiety audit - link in bio 👆

I hope this reminder helps 💛

03/08/2026

Today, I got to talk about wellbeing at work 🎤🧠 and with The Hon. Andrew Giles, MP Federal Minister for Skills and Training.

We spend so much of our lives at work, and we know that wellbeing at work is a shared responsibility. In this landmark survey, led by Apprenticeship Support Australia today we shared the voice of over 12,000 young people who spoke about how important wellbeing at work is to them.

We want work to be more than something you survive. That means taking all the tips I share and the research into wellbeing and embedding it into the way we live, work and play. There is so much science and psychology we can use, through tiny tweaks in how we work that make big differences.

Grateful to have been part of this conversation and to see wellbeing being taken seriously at a national policy level. This is the work I love doing. 💛

31/07/2026

You know that feeling at 3am when your mind won’t switch off? 🧠

Or the mental loop that starts the second you have five minutes of quiet? 💬

These experiences are often a nervous system problem. I have shared lots of short videos about techniques and tricks we can use to calm our thoughts 😮‍💨, and start to think logically. Now I’ve put a 22-minute masterclass together that covers:

👩‍💻 What science you need to know
📖 Why we fall into these habits
✔️ Five techniques that you can implement over two weeks to reset yourself.

For years I worked inside high-pressure environments — law firms, government, corporate teams — watching brilliant, capable people run on overdrive until their bodies forced them to stop. The common thread was never “not trying hard enough.” It was not knowing when or how to take a rest and a pause. We simply can’t run until we are empty, and I see parents too this all the time do 🙋‍♂️🙋🏼‍♀️

If you relate and feel stuck in overdrive this is for you. I have just done it myself for 2 weeks 🥰

🎧I know time is precious so listen on your commute, on a walk, or while cooking. The masterclass is just 22-minutes. No extra time carved out, no extra overwhelm.

🙌What you get? an audio masterclass, a workbook, and a two-week tracker so you can actually see the shift — not just feel like something might be different.

🔗 Regulate Your Nervous System masterclass — link in bio 👆
$29.99 · 2 weeks · start anytime

Let me introduce you to the negativity bias 💬Are you someone that has a tendency to hold onto the one negative comment, ...
28/07/2026

Let me introduce you to the negativity bias 💬

Are you someone that has a tendency to hold onto the one negative comment, replay the mistake, or brush off the compliment — while the ten things that went right barely register? 🧐

If this sounds like you, it’s not a flaw, rather It’s your brain doing exactly what it evolved to do.

The negativity bias is a well-documented cognitive pattern: our minds are wired to notice, remember, and weight negative experiences more heavily than positive ones. It kept our ancestors alive — but for people today, it often shows up as harsh self-criticism, replaying “failures,” and struggling to actually feel proud of wins. It’s actually, a really unhelpful way of thinking, and often not logical. Why should we give more weight to the bad or negative?

Swipe through to understand how it works — and one tip that helps rebalance it 👉

24/07/2026

It’s Friday afternoon 🙌. Wishing you a wonderful weekend!

If you are closing your laptop, the kids are done with school and you are ready to stop and unwind. But your brain isn’t 🧠 That’s your RAS talking.

Your RAS - the Reticular Activating System. A small but powerful network at the base of your brainstem, and its job is simple: filter the millions of pieces of information hitting your senses every second, and decide what’s important enough for your conscious mind to notice. 🧐

Here’s the catch — your RAS is trained by repetition and emotion. 👀👀

If you’ve spent the week in high-alert, high-achiever mode, or just fully on ‘get things done’, your RAS gets very good at flagging risk, mistakes, and “what’s not done yet.” ⚠️⌚️

So even when the week ends, it doesn’t just switch off. It’s still scanning — for the email you haven’t sent, the thing you forgot, the conversation replaying on a loop or the WhatsApp group you need to get back to. Sound familiar?

The good news: what’s trained can be retrained. Your nervous system isn’t fixed — it’s adaptable, at any age.

Hopefully this tip, can be something small you try to include to help you slow down, reset and retain what gets your attention.

If you need to remind yourself of this, save this post for the days when the mental chatter won’t switch off. 🔖 Enjoy your weekend 💕

21/07/2026

This is an absolute MUST read - by is a memoir of marriage but it describes conversations I have had over and over as a Psychologist with men and women.

So often we can get to a point where on paper we have it all, the job, the home, the marriage, the kids - but sometimes this is not enough. Someone is unhappy.

This is a story about love, loving yourself and learning about who you are and what you can be. Belle is a lawyer, she is articulate and describes so much of what I have heard first hand. Do yourself a favour and read this beautiful memoir 💕

It will stay with you ❤️

It’s the middle of the week, let’s take a moment to pause. I am working on 💕Doing less, is the new more. We need to sl...
21/07/2026

It’s the middle of the week, let’s take a moment to pause. I am working on 💕

Doing less, is the new more. We need to slow down. Intentionally. 💭

When you slow down — even for 90 seconds — your vagus nerve gets the signal to shift you into rest-and-digest mode. Heart rate drops. Cortisol eases. The moment you’re in finally gets felt, not just survived. 🧠

This week, try this: pick one moment a day — your coffee, a walk to the car, the first two minutes after you wake up — and give it your full attention. No phone. No planning ahead. Just noticing. 📖

Less input. More presence. That’s the new more. Your body and brain will thank you 🙏

💬 Where in your day could you slow down by 90 seconds?

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