Clean up this mess! Or don’t? Advice from an expert
In this episode of “In It,” hosts Gretchen Vierstra and Rachel Bozek welcome author and therapist KC Davis. KC is a therapist who hosts the podcast “Struggle Care.” Her new book Who Deserves Your Love will be out in May 2025. She is also the best-selling author of “How to Keep House While Drowning.” KC talks about being a “messy” person and reasons why we could all benefit from caring a little less about messiness. She offers tips for getting your home to “work for you.” And she helps us understand reasons to care less about the mess.
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Show Notes
In this episode of In It, hosts Gretchen Vierstra and Rachel Bozek welcome author and therapist KC Davis. KC is a therapist who hosts the podcast Struggle Care. Her new book Who Deserves Your Love will be out in May 2025. She is also the best-selling author of How to Keep House While Drowning.
KC talks about being a “messy” person and reasons why we could all benefit from caring a little less about messiness. She offers tips for getting your home to “work for you.” And she helps us understand reasons to care less about the mess.
Related resources
- Messy room? How to help your child keep it neat
- Why kids with executive function challenges have trouble starting tasks
- Listen: ADHD and messiness (Jeannie’s story)
- My Home Is Messy, and I Don’t Feel Bad About It (KC in The New York Times)
Timestamps
(3:08) What makes us special can also be what makes us scattered
(4:41) The tendency to be messy
(5:52) Identifying solutions
(7:32) Executive function and home management
(10:18) The steps involved in a task
(11:20) Helpful tips
(14:28) Focusing on function
(16:37) How you talk about mess
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