How To Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis
How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will revolutionize the way you approach home care—without endless to-do lists. Presented in 31 daily thoughts, this compassionate guide will help you begin to get free of the shame and anxiety you feel over home care.
Inside you will learn:
· How to shift your perspective of care tasks from moral to functional;
· How to stop negative self-talk and shame around care tasks;
· How to give yourself permission to rest, even when things aren’t finished;
· How to motivate yourself to care for your space.
For the Reading Challenge(s):
None
The Reason
I think it’s obvious why I read this. I’ve been complaining about feeling overwhelmed and disorganized lately and I thought this book might help.
The Quotes
“You do not have to earn the right to rest, connect, or recreate. Unlearn the idea that care tasks must be totally complete before you can sit down. Care tasks are a never-ending list, and if you wait until everything is done to rest, you will never rest.”
“No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health.”
“Forget about creating a routine. You have to focus on finding your rhythm.” With routines you are either on track or not. With rhythm you can skip a beat and still get back in the groove.”
“You don’t exist to serve your space; your space exists to serve you.”
The Narrator(s)
The author herself. It was good.
My Thoughts
This book is short and sweet. There were parts that didn’t resonate very much or that I felt didn’t apply to me, but there were also parts that were like a salve to my soul and I needed those parts very much. It doesn’t give instructions for how to keep house, which was what I was looking for at first. It focuses more on getting you to the mental and emotional space for taking care of yourself and your space, which I guess was what I ended up needing.
I needed the reminder that my space is meant to serve me, that I’m not required to be perfect, that some things are more important than others and it’s okay to drop the ball on the unimportant things to keep the important ones going. Listening to the audio made me feel like the author was a friend who had my back.
My Rating
⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 stars.
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