Steady and Connected

Dr Narelle Duncan
  • 5.0 (1)
  • Mental Health

Does anxiety show up in your closest relationships? Do you find yourself seeking reassurance, reading into silences, or pulling away just when you want to get closer? You're not difficult. You're not too much. Your nervous system may be responding to patterns laid down long before this relationship began. Steady and Connected is the podcast that explains why — and shows you what you can do about it. Hosted by Dr Narelle Duncan, Clinical Psychologist with a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Griffith University, drawing on 30 years of helping people understand themselves. Each episode brings you evidence-based tools for understanding anxiety, attachment, and emotional regulation in your closest relationships. Practical. Warm. Clinically grounded. Made specifically for people navigating the real pressures of relationships and mental health today. Find the free Attachment and Anxiety Quiz at steadyandconnected.com.au Steady and Connected provides psychoeducation content for general information purposes only. It is not a substitute for individual psychological assessment or treatment. If you are in crisis, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.

Episodes

  1. 4 days ago

    Why Anxiety Shows Up in Relationships — The Neuroscience Explained Simply

    It's a weekday evening. Your partner has been quiet since they got home. You ask if they're okay — "Yeah, fine" — and in the next ninety seconds, something tightens. In this first episode of Steady and Connected, Dr Narelle Duncan slows those ninety seconds right down and walks through what the brain is actually doing: the amygdala sounding its alarm like a smoke detector that can't tell a real fire from burnt toast, the body bracing, and the attachment templates — built long before this relationship began — that shape what your nervous system reads as a threat. The aim isn't to fix the feeling. It's to understand the mechanism, so you can stop fighting yourself. In this episode you'll learn: - Why anxiety can feel loudest in your closest relationships — and what's actually happening in your brain in those first ninety seconds - How attachment templates get built early and quietly shape every relationship that follows - Why your partner going quiet can hit differently from anyone else going quiet - Why understanding the mechanism stops you adding a second layer of pain on top of the first - The one small practice to carry through the week — and why noticing alone is the work The one practice this week — just notice. There's a free companion PDF to walk you through it. - → Free companion PDF A Week of Noticing: go.steadyandconnected.com.au/notice - → Free five-minute attachment quiz: steadyandconnected.com.au If something in today's episode resonated: follow Steady and Connected wherever you listen, so the next episode lands automatically. And if someone came to mind while you were listening, share this episode with them. About Dr Narelle Duncan Clinical Psychologist with a PhD from Griffith University drawing on 30 years of helping people understand themselves. Founder of Steady and Connected. Individual telehealth sessions available at getlifedirection.com. Coming in Episode 2: Anxious attachment — what it actually looks like, how to recognise it in yourself without judgment, and why what gets labelled as "too much" is often something else entirely. --- Steady and Connected provides psychoeducation content for general information purposes only. It is not a substitute for individual psychological assessment or treatment. If you are in crisis, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.

    17 min

  2. 19 June

    Welcome to Steady and Connected — Trailer

    The Steady and Connected podcast — first episode launches on 22 June. Hosted by Dr Narelle Duncan, Clinical Psychologist with a PhD from Griffith University, drawing on 30 years of helping people understand themselves. The show explores why anxiety can show up in our closest relationships — and what evidence-based psychology has to say about understanding those patterns. Follow now so episodes land in your feed the moment they go live. → Free five-minute attachment quiz: steadyandconnected.com.au Steady and Connected provides psychoeducation content for general information purposes only. It is not a substitute for individual psychological assessment or treatment. If you are in crisis, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.

    2 min

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Does anxiety show up in your closest relationships? Do you find yourself seeking reassurance, reading into silences, or pulling away just when you want to get closer? You're not difficult. You're not too much. Your nervous system may be responding to patterns laid down long before this relationship began. Steady and Connected is the podcast that explains why — and shows you what you can do about it. Hosted by Dr Narelle Duncan, Clinical Psychologist with a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Griffith University, drawing on 30 years of helping people understand themselves. Each episode brings you evidence-based tools for understanding anxiety, attachment, and emotional regulation in your closest relationships. Practical. Warm. Clinically grounded. Made specifically for people navigating the real pressures of relationships and mental health today. Find the free Attachment and Anxiety Quiz at steadyandconnected.com.au Steady and Connected provides psychoeducation content for general information purposes only. It is not a substitute for individual psychological assessment or treatment. If you are in crisis, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.

Information

  • Creator
    Dr Narelle Duncan
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Steady and Connected
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