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

5.0

Bumping up to 5 stars because the book came for my neck. Quote to prove it: “When you view care tasks as moral, the motivation for completing them is often shame. When everything is in its place, you don’t feel like a failure. If you are completing the care tasks with a motivation of shame, you are also probably relaxing in shame too, because care tasks never end and you view rest as a reward.” Though I wasn’t struggling with house care and chores and therefore probably won’t follow her suggestions, I still found this book helpful for my unhealthy relationship to productivity. I appreciated the radical perspectives she brought forth about how laziness doesn’t exist and that care tasks are morally neutral. Listening to the audiobook was like a gentle embrace!