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The crisis may be over, but that does not mean your body is finished experiencing it.
During a meltdown, medical event, aggressive episode or other difficult caregiving moment, your attention is focused on safety and helping your person through what is happening.
Then the immediate situation ends.
But instead of having time to recover, you may need to clean up, make phone calls, complete paperwork, prepare dinner, care for another child or move directly into the next responsibility.
From the outside, the event is over.
Inside the caregiver, the adrenaline, physical tension, sensory overload and emotional weight may still be there.
In this free caregiver class, we will talk about:
- What happens inside the caregiver during and after a crisis
- The difference between staying regulated during the event and recovering afterward
- Recognizing activation, shutdown and the lingering effects of high alert
- Identifying whether the experience created a physical, sensory, mental or emotional cost
- Reducing the immediate demands on your system
- Supporting basic needs when you still have responsibilities to manage
- Becoming functional enough for the next necessary task without pretending you are fully recovered
- Creating a repeatable system-reset sequence for after difficult events
We will work together to begin building a personal recovery plan that accounts for what the experience actually used.
Recovery is not a reward you receive after everything else is finished.
It belongs in the caregiving plan because the end of the crisis is not automatically the end of its effect on you.
The class is free, and everyone who registers will receive the replay.
