How to Keep House While Drowning
A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing
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- 23,99 лв.
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- 23,99 лв.
Publisher Description
An NPR Best Book of 2022
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
More than a self-help book, this read offers an inspiring way to reframe how you think about your daily tasks. Author KC Davis is a licenced counsellor specializing in addiction and mental health. At the start of the pandemic, she was also a new mother struggling with a case of postpartum depression that made it difficult to keep her house clean. Her breakthrough came when she realized that not doing the dishes was not a moral failing, but an inability to perform self-care. So in 31 brief chapters, Davis lays out how to reprogram your thoughts from “I can’t do laundry because I’m a mess” to “It will be so nice to have fresh, clean clothes.” Davis’ keywords are “slow, quiet, and gentle,” and her ideas are empathetic and positive. Written in a way that makes it easy to re-read whenever you need a boost, this is a book you’ll want to keep around.
