This is Jenn Delperdang with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out.
Today, I am recommending How to Keep House While Drowning--a book by KC Davis—a licensed professional therapist, speaker, podcaster, and author. KC’s compassionate and practical approach to self-care for those dealing with mental health, physical illness, and hard seasons of life grew to over a million followers on social media in less than a year. In this book, KC explores how cooking, cleaning, laundry, and sometimes even hygiene can become almost impossible if you are struggling with depression, anxiety, ADHD, parental trauma, chronic illness, postpartum, bereavement, or lack of support.
KC gave birth to her second child in a new city right as the world shut down from COVID-19. She didn’t have access to a support network for months on end, and she says she ‘used every tool in her therapy training arsenal and created a self-compassionate way to address her stress, depression, and ever-mounting laundry pile’. KC found in sharing her story on social media, that the shame over not being able to keep up with housework is universal. Presented in short, readable chapters, and designed for maximum accessibility for readers who are neurodivergent, the book looks at how to stop negative self-talk and shame around care tasks, how to give yourself permission to rest, even when things aren’t finished, how to motivate yourself to care for your space, and a new way to address division of home labor with your partner.
Check out How to Keep House While Drowning and other books on compassionate self-care at the Sioux City Public Library.
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