How to Keep House While Drowning

by K.C. Davis

“I could never let a housekeeper see the state of my home” is about as logical as “I could never let a doctor see the state of my health.”

And so what if the housekeeper judges you? It is not their mental health you are responsible for but your own.

Whether it’s hiring a cleaning service, meal delivery, curbside groceries, or using a wash and fold, as long as you treat people with respect and pay them what they are worth, it’s all morally neutral.

When did movement lose its pleasure? When did my adult life stop including activities that made movement joyful? Can I get it back? Can you? Can we try together?

The weight you are after you adopt healthy habits into your life is the weight you are supposed to be.

I realized that I only ever wanted to be skinny because I wanted to be loved and happy. But I already have that. Skinny hasn’t seemed very important to me since then.

Nothing you ate yesterday, said today, or have left undone for tomorrow can take away your right to be fed.

All calories are good calories when you’re having a hard time. There are no good or bad foods. There are no right or wrong foods.

Trolls and pj’s day was a day when we were being gentle with ourselves, allowing ourselves to take it easy and rest—a day of kindness. Framing it as kindness instead of failure was the key to being able to wake up and choose to get things done the next day.

That is the life-changing result of internalizing that you do not exist to serve your space, your space exists to serve you.

Care tasks exist for one reason only… to make your body and space functional enough for you to easily experience the joy this world has to offer.

Floors 1. Health and Safety: I need

Comfort: I want

Happiness: I like