How to Keep House While Drowning

"A refreshing new way to handle your home, especially for those with ADD/ADHD. Much better and more useful than a typical “do this, do that” book. "

"Revolutionary! Changed my whole attitude towards housework."

"I think this is titled incorrectly. It is really more about figuring out how to FUNCTION well across multiple areas of life. As a clinical psychologist, I found her advice quite useful for myself, but also potentially for many of my clients."

"Life changing. Will keep this book forever and ever."

"I find this useful. Some of her ideas didn't translate well to my situation but she approached things with the open mindedness you hope to find in a therapist. She did help me see new ways of looking at tasks and how I engage with them. The idea that it's not a matter of laziness but of lacking executive function has me pondering. I also listened to a short course on self-control being a muscle you build up or that can run down. This feels similar. Like at a certain point the muscle will get stronger if you approach it correctly.<br/><br/>Alternatively, taking a thing down to smaller parts like exercising less instead of not at all, or putting baskets everywhere to create ordered chaos, basically making a house, situation functional for the person doing the task is great advice. I felt validated in my current state of disability and given a way of reordering my thoughts away from a sense of "identity through doing".<br/><br/>Anyway, while some of her advice didn't work, she never pawned it off as the be all end all of methods but presented her philosophy as "a philosophy" and her ideas as "an idea". Her approach worked for her and some of it worked for us, particularly in her philosophy. <br/><br/>Coming from a household heavy with disability, chronic illness and cancer, this felt like a great little guide."

"This book has appeared in my life at the perfect time. As someone who struggles with anxiety, a corporate full time job which exceeds the regular 40 work week constantly, I have little to no time/energy to tackle the home tasks, and honestly they become a dreadful experience rather than something I look forward to.<br/>This book really opened my eyes to the different approach I can take, and really the steps to take to make it oh not so exhausting. <br/>My husband and I purchased our first home a couple of months before the pandemic, and our dream home quickly became our work space, creative space, and all the things, that well, I just couldn’t keep up. I couldn’t separate myself in the different areas of my life, I worked where I slept, I ate where I had my daily meetings.. it was a battle to organize myself. <br/>I’m still working on this to this day..<br/>This book was a wonderful reminder: we are all human.. <br/>I loved the message, I love the writing, and the outline of it was a pleasure to read. A few gentle reminders that can stay with you daily, and a great reference to keep coming back to.<br/>"