3-Minute Care Capacity Honoring

Time needed: 3 minutes (1 minute each)

Setting: When navigating different care abilities

Purpose: Recognizing and respecting diverse care capacities

Capacity Awareness (60 seconds)

What: Notice care energy truthfully:

- Check your current care capacity (1-10)

- Notice without judgment or comparison

- Recognize fluctuations as natural

- Identify specific factors affecting capacity

- Honor your authentic limitations

Notice: Where honesty brings relief, how capacity shifts naturally, what affects your care reserves

Why: Builds capacity literacy, reduces shame, enables realistic expectations

Capacity Diversity (60 seconds)

What: Acknowledge differences compassionately:

- Recognize others’ unique capacity contexts

- Notice how capacity varies across relationships

- Appreciate different caring expressions

- See strengths in various care styles

- Honor invisible factors affecting others

Notice: How acceptance shifts judgment, where comparison creates tension, what becomes possible with recognition

Why: Reduces care hierarchy, honors authentic differences, enables compassionate understanding

Capacity-Aligned Action (60 seconds)

What: Create sustainable support approach:

- Offer care that matches your real capacity

- Adjust expectations based on others’ capacity

- Find alternative support for gaps

- Create flexible care agreements

- Trust varied contributions to meet needs

Notice: How alignment reduces resentment, where honesty creates trust, what becomes possible with authenticity

Why: Builds sustainable care systems, honors human limitations, creates realistic support networks