Litsy

How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help | Kc Davis

Thanks for inviting me to join the #WDNCW club @dabbe ! Thought I‘d combine it with a haiku because, well, why not? 😆

We really don‘t care
the floor is covered with hair;
it can stay right there.

We do not care that the house hasn‘t been cleaned in a month because I dislocated my hip and have been gimping around ever since. We do not care that my hair is everywhere. I‘ll vacuum tomorrow! 😵‍💫

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry

JenlovesJT47 @dabbe @TheBookHippie @DebInHawaii @lil1inblue @Kristy_K @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @bellabella @AnnCrystal @Reggie @jdiehr @vivastory @CBee @Mimi28 @Jari-chan @Itchyfeetreader @Susanita @kelly7990 @ImperfectCJ 4mo

AmyG Oh no….feel better! The house can wait. 4mo

CBee Oh, the hair….. it‘s never ending 😂🤦‍♀️🤪 4mo

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JenlovesJT47 My hair 💇🏻‍♀️ it is everywhere! 💁🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ 4mo

TheBookHippie I can never commit a crime …. Hair…. Everywhere… 4mo

Susanita Not much hair from humans but OMG the cat hair! 4mo

Susanita @TheBookHippie 😂😂 4mo

Eggbeater I feel you. I have an autoimmune disease and a dog. I hope your hip feels better soon. 4mo

JenlovesJT47 @AmyG @Eggbeater thank you!! 🤗 I‘m a walking orthopedic disaster 😭 4mo

JenlovesJT47 @TheBookHippie same!!! Hair on every surface it seems 🥴😵‍💫😬 4mo

JenlovesJT47 @CBee solidarity!! 👊🏻🙌🏻😅 4mo

JenlovesJT47 @Susanita we also have tons of Chipper cat hair to add to the mix. I cleaned out from behind the bed a few months ago, the spot where he would sleep basically had hair growing out of the wall! 😳🐈‍⬛ (edited) 4mo

dabbe Oh, you poor thing! Please heal and heal well! 💙 No vacuuming until you can! And this haiku/#wdnc! 😂😂😂 Hair EVERYWHERE! Pippa's hair even made it into our freezer! Thanks for the HUM😍R and truth! 4mo

lil1inblue My husband and I both have long hair, and we have cats. Hair is our life. 4mo

AnnCrystal House can wait while you heal! Rest and may you heal swiftly 👏🏼🐝👌🏼🙏🏼🐝💝. 4mo

CBee @TheBookHippie SAME plus the falling out of hair from menopause 😅😅 4mo

CBee @lil1inblue same here! Two dogs, one cat, hubs with his ponytail, me with my long frizz, two boys who both have a lot of hair. We‘re doomed 😂😂 4mo

Amiable Amazing 2-for-1 post! Bravo! 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼 4mo

JenlovesJT47 @dabbe I‘m sorry to say I also found a hair in my freezer last week 🤦🏻‍♀️ — I‘m surprised I‘m not bald!! 👩🏻‍🦲 4mo

JenlovesJT47 @lil1inblue @AnnCrystal @Amiable 🤗♥️♥️♥️ 4mo

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 IKR? 😂 4mo

julieclair You don‘t have time for a dislocated hip!! Sure hope it heals quickly. 💙 4mo

JenlovesJT47 @julieclair thank you!! 🤗♥️♥️♥️ 4mo

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Jari-chan

How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help | Kc Davis

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(This is maybe going to be a long post)

This is totally a #blameitonlitsy - it just kept on appearing and appearing and appearing in my feed. So who am I to fight Reading Destiny? And yes, it was a good thing to listen to it. RD knows what I need.

Because I so, so needed that book. It's short and easy to read, and it has to be. It's written for people in very dark places and those often don't have the strength and energy to read big books. ⬇

Jari-chan You can skip and browse as you like and need it.

The way of deconstructing what makes you unhappy about your cho- I mean, care works, is basically the same as the one I did when I was fighting my ED. But it never occurred to me that I needed to this with my relationship with care work as well.

Even though my therapist told me to go easy on it, to think that it‘s okay that not everything‘s done, it only ever worked a little bit. ⬇ 5mo

Jari-chan It still stressed me out. A lot. That‘s why I read this book. I never realized how much shame I connected to it. That I have to learn to see my dirty floor as neutral. That it doesn‘t make me a bad person or a failure.

Wow, so much learning. But it‘s already starting to do it‘s wonders. I‘m more relaxed, more accepting. And it feels wonderful.

#BookSpin @TheAromaOfBooks 5mo

AmyG A good book to read. I was the same. Then I began what I called “triage”. What was the most important thing to do first and so on down the line. I also learned that I am my best friend so I talked to myself with kindness and compassion-and I learned to trust myself. It all gets done eventuallly. Your “care works” are not you. 5mo

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Jari-chan @AmyG I'm happy to hear that you've learnt so much and are hopefully better now 🫂💖 5mo

AmyG Thank you….I am so better. 5mo

MaleficentBookDragon I‘m glad this book is helping you. My therapist recommended this book to me after I read Divergent Mind (another she recommended). They both have really helped me with understanding myself and to start letting go of shame. It‘s a work in progress.

Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

5mo

AnnCrystal 🫂🙏🏼📚💝. 5mo

Jari-chan @MaleficentBookDragon Thank you for sharing 💖 I just put the book on my list. 5mo

Jari-chan @AnnCrystal 💖💖🫂 5mo

TheAromaofBooks Lovely review!! 5mo

Jari-chan @TheAromaofBooks Thank you 💖 5mo

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Jari-chan

How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help | Kc Davis

Wow. Yeah. That's me. Still.

AnnCrystal 🫂🙏💝. 5mo

Jari-chan @AnnCrystal 💖💖💖 5mo

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Jari-chan

How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help | Kc Davis

My #BookSpin is a #blameitonlitsy - you all just kept on talking about it. Is that FOMO - Bookish edition?
Volume 4 of the Lady Astronaut series is my #DoubleSpin 💖

@TheAromaOfBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 5mo

Jari-chan @TheAromaofBooks Thank you!💖 5mo

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Texreader

How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help | Kc Davis

I really like the last one. Good enough is perfect.

Sparklemn I love this! Thanks for sharing. 7mo

Deblovestoread I love “resetting”. I reset a few kitchen cupboards yesterday. 😀 7mo

AmyG This is great. 7mo

lil1inblue This book is so simple, yet it was a lifesaver when I was dealing with an illness for several years. I cannot recommend it often enough! 7mo

GingerAntics I‘m loving “good enough is perfect.” 7mo

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Texreader

How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help | Kc Davis

All the best laid plans…

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Texreader

How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help | Kc Davis

Care tasks are morally neutral. Being good or bad at them has nothing to do with being a good person, parent, man, woman, spouse, friend. Literally nothing. You are not a failure because you can‘t keep up with laundry. Laundry is morally neutral.

TheBookHippie So necessary to learn. 7mo

dabbe 🎯🩵🎯
Thanks for giving me grace to sit and read rather than thinking as I sit, “I should be doing this ...“ 7mo

triplem80 I really appreciated this book...it enabled me to give myself grace, which can be so hard to do! 7mo

MommyWantsToReadHerBook Love this! 7mo

GingerAntics I‘m seeing a lot of things that for some reason, by some crazy people, have been assigned moral value when they are not moral issues at all. Can we stop that? Who are these people? They are hurting everyone and ruining everything. 7mo

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Texreader

How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help | Kc Davis

I started this ebook today.

5feet.of.fury This sounds so good 7mo

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BookmarkTavern

How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help | Kc Davis

I don‘t usually seek out self help books, but this book helped me to start unpacking my belief that clean house = good person. It‘s not nearly that simple or easy.

Unraveling where I learned that also helped start me on a self examination journey that, I hope, has made me a better person.

#SundayFunday Have a wonderful day, and don‘t forget to tag me.

ChaoticMissAdventures I follow her on Tiktok, I really like how she focuses on cleanliness not being a moral issue. You are not a "bad person" if your home isn't spotless, that sort of thing. 8mo

TreenaReads I read a bunch of parenting books when my son was born, Generally, I don‘t get much out of them. 8mo

konlitsy I generally don't feel drawn to self-help books. Even when I attempt to read them, I usually only get through the first two chapters. For self-help, I sometimes listen to the Bhagavad Gita.

8mo

Kerrbearlib Oh wow, I need to read this. Cleaning has always been a struggle for me due to my ADHD & CPTSD. It‘s something I‘ve been deeply ashamed of and it‘s had a negative impact on my self-esteem. I‘m trying to unlearn the negative messages that were drilled into me (“You‘re lazy!” was a common one). Maybe a book like this would help. (edited) 8mo

BookmarkTavern @Kerrbearlib It helped me a lot. I especially loved the audiobook. It felt like sitting down with a friend. 8mo

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Kitta

How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help | Kc Davis

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Just what I needed to help motivate me to make my space work for myself and to help remove the shame around having a “messy” house or not keeping it clean enough 100% of the time, which makes me feel like a failure.

Short and fast paced. Recommended to me by a non-litsy friend.

#catsoflitsy Hazel being my reading buddy

Ruthiella 😻😻😻 9mo

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 9mo

Texreader 29 people on a waiting list for this book from the library! It‘s not just you!! 🤗 9mo

Kitta @Texreader it took months for it to come in on Libby! I returned it early so someone else would get a chance to read it lol. My library has 9 copies and 11 people waiting per copy! (edited) 9mo

Texreader 😳 9mo

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