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Closing the Capacity Leaks

Below is a list of practices and things that help me close some of the capacity leaks. I hope some of the things will resonate with you. Pick something that feels doable, something you can stick with - it will add up over time.

Food Prep

Capacity-Aware Parenting combines neuroaffirming and attachment-based approaches to help families with autistic members create more ease, connection, and emotional security.

Visual Clutter

Visual clutter feels very loud to me. If that's you as well, let's join forces for some decluttering! Below is a one-hour body-doubling decluttering video. 

Discharging Stress from the Nervous System

The Embodied Safety programme is designed to process attachment trauma that might have shaped the core sensitivity and rewire your nervous system for a deeper sense of safety. It can help you embody the kind of secure base you want to be for your children.  

Sound Input

I hear people rave about Flare earplugs for months, and could not quite relate to the hype. When I tried them, I understood why. It's like, when I put them in, my shoulders drop and I feel a bit deeper straight away. They give me the feeling of having a protective bubble around me. I linked my favourite type below (not an affiliate link).

Food

The wrong foods can be surprisingly capacity-draining. For me, it's processed sugar. I discovered that the most reliable and capacity-friendly way to keep myself off sugar is to stock up on Nked bars. It's not nutritional advice, but if you also know that certain foods don't work with your nervous system so well, do you have a replacement that works better? Is it within easy reach?

Moving Forward

Integration calls are for parents who have completed the Circle of Security Parenting course. They are here to help you stay connected with what is important to you as a parent and to deepen your understanding and practice of nurturing attachment security with your children.

Understanding my Executive Function Profile

Brainspotting therapy can support nurturing secure attachment by helping you heal attachment wounds and unresolved traumas stored within the brain and body. These experiences can influence our relationships with our children in ways we don’t realise at the time. Once healed, they free up space to connect with our children in the present moment, we can see more of who our children are and share more of ourselves with them.

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