Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing by KC Davis

6 reviews

avisreadsandreads's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Oh gawd, I feel like I've needed this book my whole adult life! I definitely need my own copy -- it feels like something to read over and over again.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Mental illness, Ableism, and Chronic illness

Minor: Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Sexism, Addiction, and Body shaming

gwenswoons's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring relaxing fast-paced

5.0

I loved this book so much. It’s way outside my usual reading palette, and I’m so grateful Storygraph’s 2024 Genre Challenge helped nudge me to read it! A non-fiction book about psychology?!? Would never have found my way to this on my own, and I already feel the huge impact it will have in my life. I was struck again and again by the author’s ability to both do necessary reframing for us - like separating care tasks from moral successes/failings, as they’ve been societally framed for us - and to simultaneously reassure us, letting us know that changing these patterns in our brains will take time, and giving us inspiring achievable ideas to begin that work. I also deeply appreciated Davis’s acknowledgment of different needs and circumstances - so many conversations about self care and self help ignore forms of oppression and challenge, like systemic racism, financial inequity, neurodiversity, and mental health struggles: factors that can quite literally change and affect people’s abilities to do the same tasks others find easy and accessible. This book explores these things honestly and gently, and as someone who’s had serious struggles with anxiety and depression I felt seen and reflected in this book in a way I haven’t in many modern takes on related topics (whether in books or on social media, journalism, etc.). I’m short, I can’t recommend this book highly enough - truly helped me and I hope it might do the same for you. 💜

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Pandemic/Epidemic, Addiction, Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Grief, Rape, and Fatphobia

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

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

pineapple_queen's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Fatphobia, Child abuse, Grief, Body shaming, and Drug abuse

zombiezami's review

fast-paced

4.75

Compassionate and practical. My only complaint is that images with text are too small. They're cute illustrations. I don't know why they're so small. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Mental illness

Moderate: Grief, Addiction, Sexism, and Chronic illness

Minor: Body shaming, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Pandemic/Epidemic