How to Keep House While Drowning

by K.C. Davis

If you are completing care tasks from a motivation of shame, you are probably also relaxing in shame too—because care tasks never end and you view rest as a reward for good boys and girls. So if you ever actually let yourself sit down and rest, you’re thinking, “I don’t deserve to do this. There is more to do.”

Let me tell you what the mess in my home means. It means I’m alive.

I tend to wander excitedly from project to project without quite wrapping up the former one before beginning the next.

Oh hey, it’s the story of my entire life.