Review by maggies - How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing

hopeful informative fast-paced

5.0

Useful reminders:

"Neurons that fire together wire together."
"You might think it's important to care for your home, but your home is an inanimate object—it's building materials and paint. It might need maintenance, but it doesn't deserve to be cared for. You are a person. You deserve to be cared for."
"No person can do all the good things all the time and expecting yourself to just sets up an oppressive perfectionism to which no one can live up. Imperfection is required for a good life."
"This is a safe home and I am safe in it."
"The best way to do something is the way it gets done."
"A simple plan to keep a space livable is better than an overwhelming plan to keep a space perfect."
"The key is that while doing [closing duties] is a way of taking care of tomorrow you, sometimes not doing them is a way of taking care of right now you."