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How to Keep House While Drowning

A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organising

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How to Keep House While Drowning

By: KC Davis
Narrated by: KC Davis, Dr Raquel Martin
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Brought to you by Penguin.

This is a book for anyone who feels overwhelmed by life and is looking for an accessible and gentle way to care for their home—and themselves.

Have you ever looked at a pile of dishes in the sink and wanted to crawl back into bed? Or found yourself staring at the overflowing recycling bin thinking, why is my life such a mess?

But what if we stopped seeing a clean house as a reflection of our worth and instead as a kindness to our future self?

How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles to revolutionise the way you approach domestic work, all without a single to-do list. Most importantly, it will help you get free of shame and guide you in coping with stress...and that ever-mounting laundry pile.

This book will help you:

  • Find ways to make your home serve you.
  • Break down domestic work into manageable tasks.
  • Stop negative self-talk around housework.
  • Give yourself permission to rest, even when things aren't finished.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 KC Davis (P)2022 Penguin Audio Cleaning & Organizing House & Home Personal Development Personal Success Inspiring Feel Better

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A common sense book full of aha moments and factual realisations that release guilt. brilliant

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…this book may contain useful approaches how to tackle tasks from laundry, dishes to bigger one of tasks. Ignore the long 1 star review, they didn’t understand the issue. Book contains both practical tips that may be beneficial, but it also tackles the psychological aspect of chores cleanliness and the so called standards of what clean looks like. So if you hate chores and may have (or know) to have ADHD (and like symptoms) you can find surprisingly good tips in this one that doesn’t hammer on your inner self and patronize you for being terrible. It may also save you years of trying to figure it out for yourself (took me over 15 years to come up with similar chore systems as described). Author also offers an abridged version so it may not even be 3 hours. Worth the listen read.

If you hate chores

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This is a must for anyone who is neurodivergent or who struggles with executive function. It teaches you to be kind to yourself and let go of any guilt/ trauma responses.

Brilliantly gentle

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Just the listen I needed after feeling utterly burned out by 2 small kids, a busy job and being left in charge of most of the housework.

Just the book I needed

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I was recommended this book by a friend who assumed I'd know KCs.work well as we have both been on tiktok for a similar amount of time! yet she had not crossed my path and was exactly who I was looking for!


The kindness this book delivers is exactly what me and all the past versions of me needed to hear. Let go of the shame!

having been on quite the healing journey and yet still feeling stuck, I was getting frustrated at all this work to still feel not quite the version of myself I knew was inside me!

I have always had adhd and never been able to mask what I saw as a failing in homemaking skills! I had used some practical tips and tricks, but nothing that stuck long term.

yet what was holding me back was shame, and that had led to a lifetime of believing I didn't deserve to take care of myself. I was often tettering on the edge of all out destruction only to pull in back time and time again, but the effort the diapare the exhausting endless struggle was debilitating. I felt mortified. Why could others keep a home, but I couldn't ?


This kind approach has changed my life. My home is already much more of a pleasure, and i am much happier because it is functional, not because it is pristine.

I was always worth the effort, I was always worth the rest. My value hasn't changed cause it was always high, just my perspective!

I found a very lost piece of the jigsaw of life!

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