HeyJaredFrom Burnout to Balance - Helping Parents Find Balance on the Burnout Recovery Journey
Hosted by family coach Tanya Valentin, this compassionate space offers expert guidance, honest conversations, and practical tools to support both you and your child. Whether you're in the early stages or deep in recovery, you’re not alone.
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Low-Demand Parenting Does Not Start With Lowering Demands (opens the original)
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In this episode, Tanya talks about radical acceptance, one of the four foundational pillars under low-demand parenting, and why it has to come before we ever try to lower a demand. This is not acceptance of the surface behaviour. It isacceptance of the root belief underneath it, the belief about how things should be, and about the child we thought we were going to raise. In This Episode Why the hardest part of parenting a neurodivergent child is often the unlearning, not the child What radical a
Why Low Demand Parenting Works For a Neurodivergent Child in Burnout (opens the original)
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You probably know that lowering demands works. This episode is about why. Episode description If you're parenting a neurodivergent child in burnout, you've likely already discovered that lowering demands helps. What's less talked about is why it works, what's actually happening in the nervous system underneath the surface. In this episode, I walk through the physiology behind demand and stress response, why autonomy, not just fewer demands, is the piece that most parents miss, why I've come to l
How To Navigate The Stage Of Burnout Recovery That Comes After The Crash (opens the original)
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Part 3 of The Family Ecosystem Approach Series After the crash has passed, many parents expect life to start feeling easier. Sometimes it does. The house may feel quieter. The daily crises may have settled. The constant battles around school or everyday demands may have eased. But your body hasn't caught up yet. In this episode, we explore Stage Two of the Family Ecosystem Approach: Stabilising Safety , a stage that often looks calm from the outside while parents are still living with hypervigil
Why "Fixing" The Child In Burnout Was Never The Point (opens the original)
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Understanding the Family Ecosystem Approach Explore how burnout impacts the entire family, not just the individual child, and discover a holistic perspective that shifts the narrative from fixing to understanding. Tanya shares her personal insights and frameworks to help families navigate this complex journey. Key topics covered: The Family Ecosystem Approach : seeing families as interconnected systems Three core systems at play: child, parent, and environmental/systemic influences Why burnout i
Acute Burnout in Autistic Children - Understanding The Crash (opens the original)
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In this episode, Tanya explores the crash, the acute burnout stage most parents are living through or have already lived through by the time they find her work. She unpacks why the crash feels sudden even though it rarely is, names the guilt so many parents carry about not seeing it coming, and speaks plainly about the systemic failures that so often deepen a family's crisis rather than easing it. Key Topics: Why the crash feels like it happened overnight, even when it didn't Masking, and why it
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