When your child's burnout becomes your burnout, how do you care for yourself when there isn't time (or space) to "practice self-care"? When you feel trapped?
In this final episode of our three-part series on capacity, we sit down with Day in the Life member Katy Jo Murdock to explore what happens when parenting a neurodivergent child stretches your own nervous system to its limits.
Together we talk about the tiny moments that help us stay connected to ourselves when life doesn't leave much room for us. Katy Jo shares her family's journey from checklist homeschooling to trusting her child, about “microdosing” regulation in the middle of intensive caregiving, burnout recovery, unschooling, shutdowns, externalized behaviors, and long days at home.
Whether you're supporting a child through autistic burnout, school refusal, demand avoidance (PDA), anxiety, or another season of overwhelm, this conversation offers genuine encouragement and practical, tactical ways to rebuild capacity one small moment at a time.
In this episode you'll hear:
Katy Jo's five-part framework for finding your microdose agent
Why capacity changes from day to day—and even hour to hour
What happens when your child's burnout affects your own nervous system
The connection between joy and regulation
How to finish a stress response in everyday life
The difference between expectations rooted in fear versus reality
Why educating ourselves is part of trusting ourselves
How every member of the family can discover their own "microdoses" of regulation
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