How to Keep House While Drowning

If you have ever found yourself struggling with dishes, laundry, or the household chores in general then this book might be for you, and you are not alone. The author KC Davies is a therapist who has experienced her own struggles and challenges when it comes to keeping on top of life's never ending chores. All too often, people are called lazy or bad for not being able to keep on top of all the chores needed to manage a household, and she wanted to change that.

This book is short and direct to the point, which is exactly what you want with a book like this, with a great balance of self-disclosure, positive acceptance, and strategies. Like any skilled therapist, KC Davis knows that the solution to struggles needs to be accompanied by understanding and acceptance of the struggles. The author manages this by doing a great job of highlighting that struggling is not the same as failing, and that not everything has to be Instagrammable to be considered tidy, organised, or functional. This is really helpful I feel as we live with an ever-increasing pressure to have everything presentable to the world, and even if you don't fall in to this category the high standard often seen online has become for many the minimal accepted standard, which is just not true.

Whilst this book won't be a coverall answer for all of life’s challenges, it does an amazing job of focusing on the common day-to-day struggles that we can all face. However, it does so without putting yourself second, and all the while acknowledging how hard it can be when we don't always have the energy to keep going.

How to Keep House While Drowning also explores what can impact our ability to manage our households and how to find ways and means of overcoming and understanding these struggles. All round, an excellent book for anybody who struggles with the chores of managing a household. Even if that is an occasional struggle, or a daily struggle.