Hanna Markuksela psykologi

Hanna Markuksela psykologi Tuhansien asiakaskokemusten ja monen tutkinnon hioma puhuja, kirjailija, psykologi, psykoterapeutti, EMDR-terapeutti ja ravintovalmentaja.

Työssäjaksamista ei voi loputtomasti parantaa kehottamalla priorisoimaan ja tauottamaan, jos työn mitoitus ja ajoitus on...
07/09/2026

Työssäjaksamista ei voi loputtomasti parantaa kehottamalla priorisoimaan ja tauottamaan, jos työn mitoitus ja ajoitus on pielessä.

Mikä avuksi?
Missä jaksamiseen liittyvässä muutoksessa olet onnistunut?
Mitä minä ja sinä voidaan tehdä niiden kuuluisien rakenteiden muuttamiseksi?

ADHD
Aivot
Jaksaminen
Työhyvinvointi
Keskittymiskyky

I started my morning journaling (with pen and paper!). But I wanted more so I thought this would be a cute little future...
06/09/2026

I started my morning journaling (with pen and paper!). But I wanted more so I thought this would be a cute little future-self exercise. So…

Five hours later I had basically held a board meeting with my 50-year-old self. 🤷‍♀️

”We” went through work, money, motherhood, relationships, health, training, beauty, home, friendships, international ambitions, social media and the tiny everyday choices that either build that life or quietly drain it.

Then we worked backwards: What needs to happen in the next 3 years? The next 90 days? During a normal week and normal weekday?

For me the biggest insight was very painful and simple: My dream life does NOT require me to become busier…

❌ It requires less noise.

❌ Less pointless input.

I listed so many things I WILL let go.

✅ What building my dream life calls me to focus on is sleep, deep work, systems, training, family, beauty, love, money, freedom and actual LIFE.

Eventually the whole thing condensed into:
HIGH PERFORMANCE. SOFT LIFE.
A very big life. But one my nervous system can actually handle (and enjoy the ride).

❓Are you gonna try the prompts? Do you want to do this trip as well?
Warning: there’s no return 🤍

Journaling
Nervous system
Work
Relationships
Time-management
Psychology
Goals

The 80s accidentally gave our brains something neuroscience now tells us matters: fewer things competing for our attenti...
05/09/2026

The 80s accidentally gave our brains something neuroscience now tells us matters:

fewer things competing for our attention.

Then we removed friction from everyday life. And then placed the responsibility for resisting everything that replaced it on the individual.

Scroll — but know when to stop.
Consume — but don’t compare.
Be reachable — but protect your recovery.
Enjoy endless choice — but somehow remain deeply focused.

That is a spectacular amount of self-regulation to ask from a nervous system. Especially a neurodivergent one.

As a psychologist, I keep coming back to this:
What if brain wellbeing is not only about training ourselves to cope better but also about becoming more intentional about what we ask our brains to cope with?

So yes, I’ll happily keep the internet.
But I’m reclaiming a little 80s glamour:
less optimisation, fewer inputs, more real-world texture, more wandering and more moments that never need to become content.

Maybe the future of brain wellbeing needs a little more 1987 in it.

❗️Follow me for psychology, neuroscience, neurodivergence and nervous system regulation with evidence, nuance and a little more glamour.
Come into my world.

❓What does your brain miss from the 80s? And I don’t care if you’re gen x, y, z 😉⤵️

❌ As a psychologist and entrepreneur I’ve been around for so many years. Entrepreneurship in my field comes with a stran...
04/09/2026

❌ As a psychologist and entrepreneur I’ve been around for so many years. Entrepreneurship in my field comes with a strange expectation.

You should be professional.
Grounded.
Regulated.
Inspiring.
Successful.
Authentic, survivor (of some form of trauma) but not too messy.
Preferably with your s**t together.

🤷‍♀️ Meanwhile, some of us are standing barefoot on a dock, calculating tax debt and watching “how to make money fast” videos on YouTube.

One summer pushed me into survival mode.
And strangely, it also pushed me toward the work I now love most.

I created (NPTI)® training, gradually left most of my client work behind, and started focusing on teaching, speaking and supporting brilliant professionals in their own work.

What moves me most is not that I built a successful training business. It’s what happens afterwards. A child gets better support at school. A burned-out person starts functioning again. A professional feels more confident in their work. My student begins taking their own nervous system, recovery and total load seriously too.

That part still makes me emotional.

Entrepreneurship has taught me a lot about tolerating pressure.

I still love working hard.

I just no longer believe the answer is always to work more.

If you’re into the less polished side of entrepreneurship, nervous system work, science, psychology, ambition, recovery, speed skating, beautiful things and occasional chaos
follow along. 🩷

This is where all of those worlds collide.

What is your brutally honest opinion (or illusion) on entrepreneurship today? ⤵️

Psychologist
Therapist
Nervous system
Entrepreneur

03/09/2026

For a long time, we thought burnout recovery looked like this: rest enough, and your body fixes itself. But chronic overload doesn’t just tire you out. It changes how your brain interprets everything.

Some imaging studies in occupational burnout/exhaustion syndrome report enlarged amygdala subregions and reduced amygdala–prefrontal connectivity, patterns that fit with heightened threat/salience processing and weaker top‑down regulation of negative emotion.
When the stress system is overloaded for too long, the amygdala can become hypersensitized. Your brain starts scanning for danger constantly, using up cognitive bandwidth.

In everyday life, this shows up as: 

🔹 Emails, sounds, interruptions that never bothered you before now feel overwhelming
🔹 Strong emotional reactions that are hard to bring back down 
🔹 A brain that keeps locking onto threat even when everything’s fine
🔹 Mental fog, because your system is busy protecting you

This doesn’t mean your brain is broken. It adapted because that’s what brains do.

❤️ The same neuroplasticity that got you here works in the other direction. When load decreases and safety, sleep, and regulation increase, the brain can begin to adapt and recover from stress. But not through willpower. You can’t think your way out of a nervous system trained to stay on high alert.

Real recovery means reducing load, rebuilding felt safety, learning to regulate — and the deepest work of all: finding out who you are when you’re no longer surviving on overdrive.

❓ What do you find hardest in burnout recovery: rest, changing boundaries, or rebuilding your identity? Tell me below in any language you like. 😄⤵️

❗️If this resonated, you’ll find me here. I share the science of nervous system recovery in a way that makes sense for real life. Just research, honesty, and tools for everyone.

Hanna Markuksela / Psychologist / EMDR Therapist / Trauma Psychotherapist

Confessions from a seasoned psychologist-entrepreneur. Plot twist: saying no grew my income and making work cozier made ...
02/09/2026

Confessions from a seasoned psychologist-entrepreneur. Plot twist: saying no grew my income and making work cozier made me more ambitious, not less.

What did you say no to today and how did you make your workday a little cozier? 

P.S. You can answer in whatever language suits you today 😉⤵️

Entrepreneurship
High-functioning burnout
Recovery
Revenue
Wellness business

31/08/2026

I came in as an outsider from ice sports, genuinely curious, slightly fangirling, and talking about something that cuts across almost every high-performance environment:

The balance between grind and rest.

We’re quick to criticise grind culture. Fair enough.

But at a high level, hard work, repetition, discipline and discomfort are still part of the deal.

So is rest.

For many high performers, rest is not as easy as it sounds. It’s a skill but it’s also shaped by the environment around you.

The real game is learning when to push, when to recover, and how to regulate your nervous system arousal so your performance doesn’t depend on having a perfect day.

Make your ordinary extraordinary so you’re still best even on your s**ttiest day.

Because competition will always throw something unexpected at you.

What an honour to bring all sorts of ideas from psychology, nervous system regulation and performance into the CHEER community. And what a welcome.

Thank you for having me
🔥
(= international coaches conference)

Coaching
Cheer
Nervous system
Psychology
Performance

30/08/2026

Voit olla aikaansaava ja ulospäin hyvinvoiva, vaikka kuoren alla sun mieli ja keho kärsii jatkuvasta ylivalppaudesta.

🧠 Mistä yliherkistyminen tulee?

Osa meistä havaitsee uhkia ja kielteisiä asioita herkemmin, koska hermosto on saattanu herkistyä niille perintötekijöiden tai varhaisen stressin, kuten trauman takia. Pitkittynyt turvattomuus ja stressi voi vaikuttaa siihen, miten herkästi uhkia havaitaan ja miten voimakkaasti keho reagoi niihin.

⚠️ Mikä korkean toimintakyvyn ahdistus on?

Korkean toimintakyvyn ahdistus ei ole virallinen diagnoosi, vaan arkinen ilmaus tilanteesta jossa ahdistuneisuus ja jatkuva ylivireys ei vielä näy ulospäin toimintakyvyn romahtamisena. Suorittamisesta voi tulla keino säädellä omaa oloa, ja se voi johtaa ulkoiseen menestykseen vaikka sisäinen kuormitus kasvaa.

🔎 Mistä sen voi tunnistaa?

Lepo tuntuu vaikealta tai epämukavalta. Tekemättömät asiat aiheuttavat suhteettoman paljon levottomuutta. Mieli ennakoi jatkuvasti ongelmia, ja asioiden hallinta tuo helpotusta, joka kestää vain hetken. Kierre on valmis. 
Apua on vaikea pyytää, koska ”kaikesta kuitenkin selviää”. Vapaapäivänä olo voi tuntua tyhjältä tai syylliseltä.

🎯 Mikä on olennaista?

Siinä ei ole mitään ongelmallista, että olet kunnianhimoinen tai aikaansaava. Olennaista on kysyä: pystytkö myös pysähtymään ilman että ahdistus, syyllisyys tai levottomuus ottaa vallan ja toimit jatkuvasti mielesi ja kehosi tarpeita vastaan? Korkea toimintakyky voi peittää oireilun, m***a se ei yksin kerro palautumisesta tai hyvinvoinnista. Tämä tila myös ajan saatossa nakertaa hyvinvointia.

➡️ Ota tili seurantaan, jos haluat lisää näkökulmia hermostoon ja jaksamiseen. Jos tarvitset apua näiden haasteiden kanssa, suosittelen vahvasti mun kouluttamia vireysvalmentajia.

❗️Jos itse olet ammattilainen ja kiinnostaa tarkemmat keinot auttaa, tule vireysvalmentajakoulutukseen.

💭 Tunnistatko itsestäs jonkun näistä merkeistä? Ootko saanut otettua tähän jotain jeesiä? Kerro kommenteissa ⤵️

29/08/2026

🦓 Seepra pakenee leijonaa, ja kohta syö taas syö rauhassa ruohoa. Miksi ihmisellä toi stressiepisodi voi venyä koko päiväks, jopa vuosiksi?

✅ Ihminen ja eläin kestää tosi hyvin hetkellistä, periodista stressiä,

❌ M***a krooninen aiheuttaa ennen pitkää ongelmia myös fyysiselle terveydelle.

🎯 Mikä oikeasti auttaa?

Ylivireyden rauhoittamisessa ei ole kyse siitä, että lopetat stressaamisen kokonaan. Se ei ole koskaan mahdollista ja hyvä niin. Vireyden nousut kuuluvat elämään. Ydin on siinä, että opetat kehon huomaamaan uudelleen ja uudelleen: nyt leijona on mennyt, nyt on aika laskea kierrokset.

Monella tämä vaatii kaikki seuraavat elementit:

1 rento suhtautuminen huoliajatuksiin ja omaan mieleen, joka tuottaa mitä miloinkin

2 kehollinen irtautuminen jännityksestä kosketuksen, liikkeen, veden tai minkä ikinä itselle toimivan avulla

3 jotain mikä irrottaa psykologisesti raatamisesta ja tämän irtautumisen rytmittäminen non-negotiable osioiksi kalenteriin

➡️ Seuraa tiliä, jos haluat lisää tutkimustietoon perustuvia näkökulmia hermostoon, stressiin ja palautumiseen.

❓ Milloin ja miten sun hermosto viimeks sai selkeän viestin ”vaara on ohi”?

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