How to Keep House While Drowning: a gentle approach to cleaning and organizing by KC Davis.
Simon Element, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2022. Previously self-published.
Adult nonfiction, 152 pages.
Not leveled.
A guide to practical aspects of housekeeping and self-care while struggling with mental health, disability, grief, or other debilitating circumstances.
How to Keep House While Drowning by K.C. Davis.
I first came across Davis through her phrase "care tasks are morally neutral" and it was hugely resonant with me. As longtime readers of this blog will know, after several years of mostly routine posting, in March 2023 I had to take an indefinite hiatus. Those circumstances were also devastating in other areas of my life, so I decided to return to blogging with this book.
Davis works at breaking down some barriers to care tasks and has such a comprehensive, easy plan for dealing with some major struggles that I wept my first time reading this. Not everything she says will be applicable to every life, and I suspect most of us will have a lot to unpack in order to feel good following the plan she outlines here, but this approach is certainly needed by many.
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