Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

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

18 reviews

kimveach's review

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

thebacklistreader's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Gentle, compassionate and patient reminders of what it is to care for yourself and your space without judgement. Audio is phenomenal and built with intention of being mindful of those who are neurodivergent and may not have the capacity to listen attentively throughout. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Body shaming and Emotional abuse

Minor: Drug abuse

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

purplepenning's review

hopeful informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism and Mental illness

Minor: Pregnancy, Addiction, Grief, Body shaming, and Emotional abuse

honeyvoiced's review

hopeful informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

jesromas's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.5

I never do self-help books but for some reason I stumbled across this and gave it a chance. This is a compassionate how-to guide for both thinking about your relationship to care tasks and actually doing care tasks. I thought it was a perfect balance of both. 

It’s obviously written by a middle-class white mom but I think she does a good job of positioning herself and accommodating for people who live outside of that experience. Some of her tips about  parenting (or comments about having a kitchen island or laundry room lol) were irrelevant to me but could easily be skipped or overlooked. 

This book was also super accessible as an audiobook and in general. I think it’d be worthwhile even just skimming it for someone struggling to maintain a clean or functional home space. It did really change my perspective on ~chores~ for the better.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Addiction, Body shaming, and Chronic illness

for_esme_with_love's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Body shaming, Grief, Sexism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Chronic illness, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Excrement

Davis discusses the above, but does not perpetuate the above “isms”