How to Keep House While Drowning

A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organising

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How to Keep House While Drowning

A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organising

  • 5.0 (3 ratings)
  • 104 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 7 Have read

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.

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162

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How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organising
2024, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
Cover of: Como arrumar a casa quando a vida está caótica
Cover of: How to Keep House While Drowning
How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help
2022, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help
2022, Cornerstone Press Chicago
in English
Cover of: Cómo cuidar tu casa cuando la vida te ahoga
Cover of: How to Keep House While Drowning
How to Keep House While Drowning: a gentle approach to cleaning and organizing
2022, Simon Element
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How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing
2022, Simon & Schuster
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How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing
Apr 26, 2022, Blackstone Pub
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How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help
2020, Independently Published
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Table of Contents

how to read this book
Page viii
introduction
Page 1
Chapter 1. care tasks are morally neutral
Page 10
Chapter 2. kindness to future you
Page 12
Chapter 3. for all the self-help rejects
Page 14
Chapter 4. gentle skill building: the five things tidying method
Page 19
Chapter 5. gentle self-talk: mess has no inherent meaning
Page 25
Chapter 6. care tasks are functional
Page 29
Chapter 7. gentle self-talk: find the compassionate observer
Page 34
Chapter 8. organized is not the same as tidy
Page 37
Chapter 9. susie with depression
Page 41
Chapter 10. gentle skill building: kick-starting motivation
Page 43
Chapter 11. care tasks are cyclical
Page 50
Chapter 12. gentle skill building: setting functional priorities
Page 53
Chapter 13. women and care tasks
Page 56
Chapter 14. gentle skill building: laundry
Page 57
Chapter 15. you can't save the rain forest if you're depressed
Page 65
Chapter 16. drop the plastic balls
Page 67
Chapter 17. gentle skill building: doing the dishes
Page 72
Chapter 18. when you don't have kids
Page 76
Chapter 19. when it's hard to shower
Page 77
Chapter 20. caring for your body when you hate it
Page 84
Chapter 21. gentle self-talk: "i am allowed to be human"
Page 86
Chapter 22. good enough is perfect
Page 88
Chapter 23. gentle skill building: changing bedsheets
Page 90
Chapter 24. rest is a right, not a reward
Page 91
Chapter 25. division of labor: the rest should be fair
Page 96
Chapter 26. gentle skill building: bathrooms
Page 104
Chapter 27. gentle skill building: a system for keeping your car clean
Page 106
Chapter 28. when your body doesn't cooperate
Page 107
Chapter 29. contributing is morally neutral
Page 109
Chapter 30. cleaning and parental trauma
Page 111
Chapter 31. critical family members
Page 115
Chapter 32. rhythms over routines
Page 117
Chapter 33. gentle skill building: maintaining a space
Page 122
Chapter 34. my favorite ritual: closing duties
Page 128
Chapter 35. skill deficit versus support deficit
Page 131
Chapter 36. outsourcing care tasks is morally neutral
Page 133
Chapter 37. exercise sucks
Page 136
Chapter 38. your weight is morally neutral
Page 138
Chapter 39. food is morally neutral
Page 140
Chapter 40. getting back into rhythm
Page 142
Chapter 41. you deserve a beautiful sunday
Page 143
acknowledgments
Page 145
Appendix 1
Page 147
Appendix 2
Page 149

The Physical Object

Pagination
160
Number of pages
162

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL50620303M
ISBN 13
9781529159417

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL26660798W
LibraryThing
25757961

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