Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help by KC Davis

29 reviews

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism and Toxic relationship

Minor: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Excrement

maddamreads's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

I will be re-reading this book. Care tasks are very difficult for me and I struggle with perfectionism. KC has accessibly and genuinely laid out different ways of thinking of care tasks, applicable strategies, and reflective questions. The input from Imani Barbarin also expanded the book to be inclusive for disabled people and considerate of the black experience. Whether read as a reference or straight through, this is a wonderful book for ADHD, mentally ill, busy, and disabled adults (or even just any adult) to experience. There is a lot of stuff about parenting applicable to self-parenting. I wish she would have gone more into movement or in the future expand to working from home tasks. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Chronic illness, Alcohol, Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, Ableism, Addiction, and Eating disorder

litematcha's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Ableism, and Misogyny

katiemack's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

I read this book at the optimal time in my life. As someone who is postpartum and has perpetually dealt with a lifetime of blaming and shaming myself for not keeping a clean house or yard, KC Davis' words really resonated with me. 

The book is short--150-ish pages--and concise, as Davis knows that some of her readers don't have the time or capacity to take in all of what they read. It's packed full of useful methods of perspective-shifting that aren't just "clean as you go" or "make a schedule" and emphasizes doing what works best for you. For me, the most valuable pieces of advice are about reframing chores as "care tasks" and doing them not because it's the morally correct thing to do but because I deserve to live in a clean house, to be kind to myself in this way. Her giving permission to not have everything be spotless all the time is also exactly what I needed to read right now.

If you're struggling in life right now, pick this up. If you don't want to read 150 pages, take her advice about which chapters to skip.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Chronic illness, and Grief

Minor: Emotional abuse and Body shaming

sweetchocolatez's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Minor: Mental illness, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Classism, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, Bullying, Cancer, and Pandemic/Epidemic

redefiningrachel's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Mental illness, and Drug abuse

Minor: Ableism

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Ableism

Moderate: Addiction, Chronic illness, and Grief

Minor: Emotional abuse, Body shaming, and Child abuse

kayschwe's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, Ableism, and Body shaming

imstephtacular's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Medical content

Moderate: Pregnancy, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Grief, Ableism, Drug use, Cursing, Classism, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body shaming, and Gaslighting

Minor: Racism

kimveach's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I picked this little book at the library because the title intrigued me.  It's an intriguing way to look at taking care of your house and yourself, especially if you are struggling.  This book teaches you to reframe how you look at "care" tasks (hygiene, cleaning, cooking, etc.).   This book would help anyone who is temporarily struggling (grief, depression, illness, injury), as well as those who are permanently struggling (ADHD, disability, chronic disease, being a caretaker.)

At first, some of the suggestions were the same as most self-help books (do tasks the night before to set yourself up for a good day, put on music to clean).  Still, others were out of the box (too tired to empty the dishwasher - take out the few things you need now, add the few that must be cleaned, and rerun the dishwasher.)

This book would be helpful for those struggling, but I think it could be even more useful for someone who knows a person struggling.  It would give them concrete ways to help the person without shaming them about the state of their home or self.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Abandonment, Bullying, Chronic illness, Addiction, Child abuse, Cursing, Body shaming, Grief, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Physical abuse