Dr Jodie

What a privilege to be invited to speak with the incredible team at Sydney Airport for World Mental Health Day on “The Mindset and Skills for Peak Performance: Neuroscience-Backed Tools to Build Collaboration, Resilience and Success.”

In a fast-paced, high-performance work environment how we thrive within it depends on our collective strength. But when we’re stressed, the first thing to go is how we engage with people — our oxytocin levels drop, and collaboration suffers. Resilience isn’t just about “getting on with it.” It’s about building awareness, connection, and tools to adapt, collaborate, and excel together. This is the power of mastering your mindset in order to build collaboration, resilience and success.

In this keynote I shared The Mind Strength Method toolkit, which helps people and teams build psychological safety, motivation, and engagement — to not just survive through uncertainty and change, but thrive through it.

Huge thanks to Emily Watson and Ana Tzenos for bringing this event together, and it was wonderful to meet Adrian Witherow and many others in the Sydney Airport team. Look forward to continuing the conversations!

Hi everyone if you’re in Sydney CBD 6pm this Thursday 11th September I’d love to see you at Dymocks Books George Street for a special evening for RUOK? Day.

My amazing friend and mental health advocate, Entertainment Editor Jonathon Moran will be chatting with me to share stories, insights and tools from our book ‘Mental As Anyone’. We’ll be joined by Gotcha4Life Foundation ambassador and inspiring mental health speaker Cameron Merchant for an evening of connection, conversation and support.

The best part is that proceeds go to Gotcha4Life Foundation in support of their incredible work supporting mental fitness in schools and the community. Jump on the link in my bio to pick up your tickets and I can’t wait to see you on the night!

Link to tickets: https://lnkd.in/gP8icJn6

What a week and an honour to be the opening keynote speaker at the Australasian Professional Indemnity Group National Conference 2025, speaking at the beautiful Sofitel Sydney with over 400 legal and insurance industry professionals passionate about growth and celebrating 30 years of APIG.

🎤 I spoke on the Mind Strength Method to Build Resilience, Elevate Performance and Thrive Through Uncertainty and Change sharing 🧠neuroscience based insights and tools to:
- Prevent and manage anxiety, stress, low mood and burnout
- Strengthen team and personal resilience and wellbeing
- Boost confidence, assertiveness and courageous decision making
- Engage in coaching conversations that foster psychological safety
- Build a growth culture that supports continual improvement and innovation
- Future proof your mindset and lead with impact through uncertainty and change

In a landscape of complexity, disruption and AI transformation, where burnout is high and uncertainty is the norm, it was a privilege to share evidence-based tools to help leaders and teams to build high performance and thrive!

A big thank you to Aimee Pozoglou and the APIG National Conference Organising Committee, Mitchell Spurr APIG National President and Cecelia Haddad of Marketing Elements for bringing together an exceptional event, and special thanks to Bridget Wall Partner at for your introduction. Ever grateful to the incredible team at for helping me to share my voice.

The Anxiety Clinic is growing! 🙌🏼🙌🏼 We’re looking for highly skilled clinical and registered psychologists to join our friendly, values-driven team.

Our clinic has a leading reputation, and we’re proud to support adults, children, adolescents, couples and families across Sydney and Australiawide.

✨✨ We offer:
- A large referral base and consistently full caseloads
- The full range of mental health presentations, with a strong focus on anxiety
- Single and multiple days as suits you
- Purpose-built, light-filled therapy rooms in Bondi Junction
- Flexibility to work in-person or via telehealth nationwide
- A collaborative, kind, and professional culture with regular team events
- Peer supervision and clinical support from experienced colleagues
- The chance to work with adults, children, adolescents, parents, families and couples as suits you
- Full end to end administrative support including all intakes, bookings, confirmations, billing, and marketing
- A clinic that truly values integrity, clinical excellence, compassion and teamwork.

✨✨ We’re seeking someone who is:
- Passionate about the best evidence-based care (e.g., CBT, ACT, ERP, DBT, other)
- Highly skilled, kind, and ethically driven
- Wants to work in a supportive, high-calibre team environment
- Excited to contribute to a clinic making a real difference in people’s lives

If you’re ready to be part of a thriving, respected practice where you can do your best work, we’d love to hear from you. To express interest or apply, please contact us at [email protected] (02) 93893339

Burnout isn’t weakness, it’s your nervous system sounding the alarm. The important thing is that you can’t soldier your way through burnout - it’s a physiological and psychological state of depletion that requires a response.

🧠 The good news - burnout is highly responsive to the right neuroscience backed tools.

Here’s how I help people shift from burnout to high performance and wellbeing using The Mind Strength Method:

Step 3 – The Mind Strength Toolkit
✅ Learn to interrupt the fight-or-flight loop, rewiring the mindset patterns that drive chronic stress and burnout.

Step 4 – The Mind Strength Wellbeing Pyramid
✅ Build a lifestyle that restores and sustains, activating mind-body tools that boost serotonin and dopamine, your natural mood and motivation chemicals.

The 3 essential steps to start your reset:
1️⃣ Recognise the psychological, behavioural, physical and emotional red flags of burnout
2️⃣ Shift your mindset out of worry and overwhelm into resilience
3️⃣ Replenish with evidence-based mind-body tools

⚡️This is neuroscience in action. You’re not broken, you’re burnt out, and you can come back stronger.

📤 Share this with your community or tag someone who needs this today. Let’s break the burnout cycle together!

Avoidance is anxiety’s favourite fuel 🔥

Every time you avoid a feared situation, your brain learns: “I was only okay because I listened to worry!”

But when you take a long, slow out breath and face the fear in small, manageable steps, your brain rewires itself and you build mind strength!
It learns: “I did the hard thing and nothing bad happened or I built resilience and coped.” Think about that next presentation, or social situation. Or maybe it’s speaking to someone you’ve been thinking about for a while.

This is Step 3 of The Mind Strength Method - The Mind Strength Toolkit, Approach Avoided Situations.

Ask yourself:
👉 What would I do right now if fear wasn’t in charge?
👉 What would my values do in this moment?
👉 What’s one small step I can take today?

Courage isn’t confidence. It’s doing something you value despite fear.

Save this for when anxiety tries to take control or share it with someone today 💪🏻💛

🧠 When anxiety hits, your amygdala goes into overdrive and you lose access to your clear, calm, confident brain.

Here’s what helps: name the emotion out loud 💛

“This is anxiety.”
“This is fear of not being in control.”

Labelling your emotion reduces amygdala activity and re-engages your logical brain. It’s neuroscience in action.
This is Step 3 of The Mind Strength Method: The Mind Strength Toolkit. It’s a powerful ways to interrupt the anxiety loop and reclaim your sense of calm.

The Mind Strength Method gives you the tools to move from anxiety, to awareness, to action and to navigate with strength 💪🏻✨

Here’s your Mind Strength Tip for the week ahead 😊💪🏻

Your thoughts are not facts. Your brain is wired for survival. That means it often overestimates negatives and underestimates your strengths or your ability to cope.

That self-critical thought? That “what if” spiral? That need for control? They’re part of your Worry Story.

🧠 Step 1 of The Mind Strength Method is recognising the story your mind is telling you and choosing not to be ruled by it.

Try this instead: Notice when worry is bossing you around, label the worry story, and put it back on the shelf! Or perhaps - say “I notice I’m having the thought that I’m not good enough”. This helps to unstick from those sticky worry or self critical thoughts 🙌🏼🙌🏼

Save this for the next time your thoughts get loud. You are not your Worry Story.

Small moments of gratitude are scientifically proven to build emotional resilience.

Step 4 of The Mind Strength Method, the Mind Strength Wellbeing Pyramid, presents gratitude as a foundational wellbeing habit.

Gratitude helps regulate mood, lower stress hormones, and increase brain flexibility. This weekend, and every day, can you practise purposely identifying one small thing you’re grateful for? It will fuel your long-term mental strength.