How to Keep House While Drowning
eBook - ePub

How to Keep House While Drowning

A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing

  1. 152 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

How to Keep House While Drowning

A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing

About this book

An NPR Best Book of the Year | USA TODAY Bestseller

This revolutionary approach to cleaning and organizing helps free you from feeling ashamed or overwhelmed by a messy home.

If you’re struggling to stay on top of your to-do list, you probably have a good reason: anxiety, fatigue, depression, ADHD, or lack of support. For therapist KC Davis, the birth of her second child triggered a stress-mess cycle. The more behind she felt, the less motivated she was to start. She didn’t fold a single piece of laundry for seven months. One life-changing realization restored her sanity—and the functionality of her home: You don’t work for your home; your home works for you.

In other words, messiness is not a moral failing. A new sense of calm washed over her as she let go of the shame-based messaging that interpreted a pile of dirty laundry as “I can never keep up” and a chaotic kitchen as “I’m a bad mother.” Instead, she looked at unwashed clothes and thought, “I am alive,” and at stacks of dishes and thought, “I cooked my family dinner three nights in a row.”

Building on this foundation of self-compassion, KC devised the powerful practical approach that has exploded in popularity through her TikTok account, @domesticblisters. The secret is to simplify your to-do list and to find creative workarounds that accommodate your limited time and energy. In this book, you’ll learn exactly how to customize your cleaning strategy and rebuild your relationship with your home, including:

-How to see chores as kindnesses to your future self, not as a reflection of your worth.
-How to start by setting priorities.
-How to stagger tasks so you won’t procrastinate.
-How to clean in quick bursts within your existing daily routine.
-How to use creative shortcuts to transform a room from messy to functional.

With KC’s help, your home will feel like a sanctuary again. It will become a place to rest, even when things aren’t finished. You will move with ease, and peace and calm will edge out guilt, self-criticism, and endless checklists. They have no place here.

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Information

Publisher
S&S/Simon Element
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781668002858
Print ISBN
9781668002841
Subtopic
Attention-Deficit Disorder (ADD-ADHD)

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. How to Read This Book
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: Care Tasks Are Morally Neutral
  7. Chapter 2: Kindness to Future You
  8. Chapter 3: For All the Self-Help Rejects
  9. Chapter 4: Gentle Skill Building: The Five Things Tidying Method
  10. Chapter 5: Gentle Self-Talk: Mess Has No Inherent Meaning
  11. Chapter 6: Care Tasks Are Functional
  12. Chapter 7: Gentle Self-Talk: Find the Compassionate Observer
  13. Chapter 8: Organized Is Not the Same as Tidy
  14. Chapter 9: Susie with Depression
  15. Chapter 10: Gentle Skill Building: Kick-Starting Motivation
  16. Chapter 11: Care Tasks Are Cyclical
  17. Chapter 12: Gentle Skill Building: Setting Functional Priorities
  18. Chapter 13: Women and Care Tasks
  19. Chapter 14: Gentle Skill Building: Laundry
  20. Chapter 15: You Can’t Save the Rain Forest If You’re Depressed
  21. Chapter 16: Drop the Plastic Balls
  22. Chapter 17: Gentle Skill Building: Doing the Dishes
  23. Chapter 18: When You Don’t Have Kids
  24. Chapter 19: When It’s Hard to Shower
  25. Chapter 20: Caring for Your Body When You Hate It
  26. Chapter 21: Gentle Self-Talk: “I Am Allowed to Be Human”
  27. Chapter 22: Good Enough Is Perfect
  28. Chapter 23: Gentle Skill Building: Changing Bedsheets
  29. Chapter 24: Rest Is a Right, Not a Reward
  30. Chapter 25: Division of Labor: The Rest Should Be Fair
  31. Chapter 26: Gentle Skill Building: Bathrooms
  32. Chapter 27: Gentle Skill Building: A System for Keeping Your Car Clean
  33. Chapter 28: When Your Body Doesn’t Cooperate
  34. Chapter 29: Contributing Is Morally Neutral
  35. Chapter 30: Cleaning and Parental Trauma
  36. Chapter 31: Critical Family Members
  37. Chapter 32: Rhythms Over Routines
  38. Chapter 33: Gentle Skill Building: Maintaining a Space
  39. Chapter 34: My Favorite Ritual: Closing Duties
  40. Chapter 35: Skill Deficit Versus Support Deficit
  41. Chapter 36: Outsourcing Care Tasks Is Morally Neutral
  42. Chapter 37: Exercise Sucks
  43. Chapter 38: Your Weight Is Morally Neutral
  44. Chapter 39: Food Is Morally Neutral
  45. Chapter 40: Getting Back Into Rhythm
  46. Chapter 41: You Deserve a Beautiful Sunday
  47. Appendix 1
  48. Appendix 2
  49. Acknowledgments
  50. ‘Who Deserves Your Love’ Teaser
  51. About the Author
  52. Image Descriptions
  53. Copyright

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