How to keep house while drowning a gentle approach to cleaning and organizing
"For anyone tired of staring at the same mess every day but struggling to find the time and willpower to fix it, popular therapist and Tiktok star KC Davis presents a revolutionary method of cleaning to end the stress-mess cycle"--
| Main Author: | Davis, KC (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon Element,
2022.
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| Edition: | First Simon Element hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Care tasks are morally neutral
- Kindness to future you
- For all the self-help rejects
- Gentle skill building: The five things tidying method
- Gentle self-talk: Mess has no inherent meaning
- Care tasks are functional
- Gentle self-talk: find the compassionate observer
- Organized is not the same as tidy
- Susie with depression
- Gentle skill building: Setting functional priorities
- Women and care tasks
- Gentle skill building: Laundry
- You can't save the rain forest if you're depressed
- Drop the plastic balls
- Gentle skill building: Doing the dishes
- When you don't have kids
- When it's hard to shower
- Caring for your body when you hate it
- Gentle self-talk: "I am allowed to be human"
- Good enough is perfect
- Gentle skill building: Changing bedsheets
- Rest is a right, not a reward
- Division of labor: the rest should be fair
- Gentle skill building: Bathrooms
- Gentle skill building: A system for keeping your car clean
- When your body doesn't cooperate
- Contributing is morally neutral
- Cleaning and parental trauma
- Critical family members
- Rhythms over routines
- Gentle skill building: Maintaining a space
- My favorite ritual: Closing duties
- Skill deficit versus support deficit
- Outsourcing care tasks is morally neutral
- Exercise sucks
- Your weight is morally neutral
- Food is morally neutral
- Getting back into rhythm
- You deserve a beautiful Sunday.