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“Shame is the enemy of functioning.”

How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help by K.C. Davis

March 26, 2021 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

I’ve spent the past few years unpacking a lot about myself, doing the work in therapy, reading up on things that sounds like perhaps they are me. In that I’ve also started dealing with the fact that I struggle with care tasks – what you might more easily recognize as “chores”. I always have, I don’t remember a time when completing care tasks came easily, or instinctually. And, when I’m in a bad headspace it all gets so much worse. But, I need to stop […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 31 Days of Compassionate Help, care tasks, care tasks are morally neutral, chores, faintingviolet, functionality, housework, How to Keep House While Drowning, impossible tasks, K.C. Davis, Shame

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 31 Days of Compassionate Help, care tasks, care tasks are morally neutral, chores, faintingviolet, functionality, housework, How to Keep House While Drowning, impossible tasks, K.C. Davis, Shame ·
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Care. Tasks. Are. Morally. Neutral.

How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis

February 1, 2021 by Blingle Bells 2 Comments

Are you a parent? If no, are you at least a human? Do you struggle with any of the following: housework, meal prep/planning/obtaining/cooking, laundry, the constant mental energy suck of parenting, daily hygiene? Is any of that a result of depression, ADHD, disability, life-is-a-marathon exhaustion, lack of support, having more to do than there are hours in the day? Do you feel: guilt, shame, anxiety, depression, shitty self-worth, like a failure? If you answered yes to any of those questions or anything similar, BUY THIS […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: ADHD, Depression, housework, How to Keep House While Drowning, KC Davis, Parenting, Self-help

Blingle Bells's CBR13 Review No:3 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: ADHD, Depression, housework, How to Keep House While Drowning, KC Davis, Parenting, Self-help ·
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this woman’s work

If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley

April 20, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Bill Bryson’s delightful At Home: A Short History of Private Life came first, but Lucy Worsley’s If Walls Could Talk separates itself from the predecessor by being, well, more intimate! I promise this will be a review of If the Walls Could Talk, but if you are ever in need of a peaceful “sleep read” then I highly recommend plugging into the audio adaptation of Bryson’s book- it is seriously soothing. The biggest difference between At Home and If Walls Could Talk is the female perspective. Bryson’s book was framed around […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Cooking/Food, Health, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Bill Bryson, British history, domestic life, home history, housekeeping, housework, invention, Lucy worsley, social history, world history

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:35 · Genres: Audiobooks, Cooking/Food, Health, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Bill Bryson, British history, domestic life, home history, housekeeping, housework, invention, Lucy worsley, social history, world history ·
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