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You're in the right place →Choose a starting point. You don't need to do everything. Each path offers a way forward.
Choose the situation that feels closest to yours. Each one opens a helpful next step.
Reduce intensity and support regulation.
Get support →Understand what's driving the response.
Explore this topic →Find ways to begin rebuilding participation.
Find strategies →Match demands to current capacity.
Get guidance →Your capacity matters too. Find support for yourself.
Learn more →Four kinds of support that can help families respond to changes in capacity.
When a child is overwhelmed, the goal isn't simply to push harder or get back to normal as quickly as possible. The Four Rs help us consider what is needed now, what needs time, and how participation can be rebuilt.
First, reduce demands and sources of overload. When a child is beyond their available capacity, more pressure often makes participation harder.
Give the nervous system and everyday capacities time to recover. Recovery is not necessarily inactivity. It means matching expectations to what is currently available.
Address what overload may have strained. Repair can involve relationships, confidence, trust, or parts of the environment that repeatedly make demands too difficult.
Gradually rebuild participation in meaningful activities. The aim is sustainable engagement, not simply returning to the same level of demand that contributed to overload.
Families may move between Relief, Recovery, Repair, and Reintegration as needs change. Explore the full teaching collection when you're ready to go further.
The Sustainable Capacity for Kids collection includes detailed teaching about overload, shutdown, demand avoidance, family capacity, and rebuilding participation.
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