
How to Keep House While Drowning
A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing
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Narrated by:
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KC Davis LPC
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Dr. Raquel Martin
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KC Davis LPC
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.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2020 by KC Davis, 2022 by Katherine Davis. All rights reserved (P)2022 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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this book is so much more than i thought it would be. i cried a number of times because I felt like KC was talking only to me. this book is about being kind to yourself, about divorcing self worth from how messy your space is, about aknowledging that a person is still worthy of love and respect even if their home is a mess, even if they struggle with executive function because of neurodivergence, even if they are too depressed to wash the dishes, even if they have trauma and ptsd and other barriers to care tasks that means some tasks go undone.
this book gave me permission to stop serving my space and instead let it serve me. and if that means i dont vaccume every week or fold all the clothes, thats ok.
i am going to have to listen to it again because i lost some of the practical tips in the midst of all the emotional epiphanies.
lifechanging
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This is a must have for all overwhelmed individuals not just moms!
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OCD & ADHD and this book helped me
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wish i had this in my teen years
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Phenomenal
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Life. Changing.
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Just what I needed
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Brilliant!!!
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Fantastic
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Gentle, life changing behaviors
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