How to Keep House While Drowning with KC Davis, LPC, of Struggle Care
CW: There are some swears, so please use headphones if you need to.
Have you ever felt overwhelmed about or ashamed of being “behind” or “failing” at life basics like cooking, cleaning, household management, or hygiene? Why doesn’t “just try harder” ever seem to work to get us organized and “together”? What if, instead of trying to fix ourselves, we could treat ourselves with more compassion and find systems that work for us? Episode 28 of Poised & Powerful Parenting Podcast is sharing the importance of establishing a foundation of care, with KC Davis of Struggle Care!
Do you find yourself needing extra time to recover from your weekend or time to prepare your mind and body for the week ahead? Join me for a restorative practice where we’ll release tension in our necks, back, and shoulders. Clear your mind so you’ll feel reset and re-energized for yourself and your family. Drop into the online Sunday Scaries Support group class: https://poisedpowerfulparenthood.com/take-a-break
KC Davis is a licensed professional therapist, author, speaker, and the person behind the mental health platform Struggle Care. Struggle Care is about learning how to accomplish care tasks—and being kind to yourself—when you have functional barriers.
In this episode of Poised & Powerful Parenting Podcast, KC and I discuss the following:
Why KC, who’s a mental health advocate and Founder of Struggle Care, doesn’t like the term “self care” and why she finds it completely unhelpful for the average person.
Why care tasks are morally neutral; how you do care tasks has nothing to do with your character as a “good” or “worthy” person.
Why everyone, regardless of functioning level, deserves kindness - and why she doesn’t believe in “laziness.”
Being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and how she makes systems that work for her while pandemic parenting.
The importance of understanding that good enough is perfect - where we picked up our emotional baggage around perfectionism and how we can drop it.
Establishing a foundation of care for yourself, and understanding that you deserve kindness and care no matter what, is more important than trying to “keep up” with what others show you their life looks like.
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CONNECT WITH KC Davis:
Watch KC clean up: https://www.tiktok.com/@domesticblisters
How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis, LPC (and on audiobook)
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LINKS MENTIONED:
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristin Neff
The F*ck It Diet Book by Caroline Dooner