1KHO 652: Being Overwhelmed Is Not a Personal Failure | KC Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever looked around your house, your calendar, or your marriage and thought, Why is this so hard for me?—this conversation is for you. In this episode, Ginny Yurich talks with licensed therapist and Struggle Care founder KC Davis about why overwhelm isn’t a character flaw, a lack of discipline, or a sign you’re doing life wrong. KC names the invisible mental load of daily living—meals, laundry, cleaning, caregiving, relationships—and explains why these repetitive responsibilities were never meant to be proof of your worth. Together, Ginny and KC explore practical, compassionate ways to lower that load without adding shame. From reframing household work as morally neutral, to letting go of “just clean as you go,” to rethinking fairness in marriages and families, this episode offers language and tools that actually help. KC shares gentle strategies for building momentum when you’re stuck, wisdom for dividing labor and rest more honestly, and a powerful reminder that community is built through realness and not perfection. This is an episode to save, share, and return to when you need permission to stop measuring your life by impossible standards. Learn more about what KC Davis has to offer including her podcast, courses, training, and more here: https://www.strugglecare.com Get your copy of How to Keep House While Drowning here Get your copy of Who Deserves Your Love? here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to 1,000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Ginny Erich and the founder of 1,000
0:03.9	Hours Outside and I am so excited for today's guest. I've been a fan for so long. Casey Davis, welcome.
0:09.4	Hi, I'm so glad to be here. It's funny because I had this TikTok one time and I was drafted
0:15.3	and it was so funny. And then for some reason my app uninstalled and I lost it but when I first moved into my house
0:21.9	the old owners left this outside television like we had like an outdoor kitchen and they had a
0:27.3	television that was like an outdoor television right and there was one day when I was like so
0:32.8	irritated with my kids and I was like go outside and play and they wouldn't say outside so I
0:36.9	turned the outside television on for them and I took a video and I was about to post it because I was like
0:42.4	hey guys does this count towards my 1,000 hours outside if the TV's on? I love it Casey go outside and
0:49.8	watch television they are technically outside. Yes I love Actually, there's like campers you can buy
0:55.9	that have that. So you could get an RV, you know, and it's got the outside television, you know,
1:00.4	like a big screen. People will sit out there and watch movies. So that's so funny. I am so drawn to what
1:06.4	you share. So you're licensed therapist. You are the founder of struggle care. And I've read these two books of
1:12.4	yours, which I have had how to keep house while drowning for a long time, a gentle approach to
1:17.3	cleaning and organizing, probably right when it came out. And then you just more recently came out
1:20.8	with who deserves your love, how to create boundaries to start, strengthen, or end any
1:24.7	relationship. And these have just been transformative for me. I love them so much. And I'm so I'm gushing. But my kids would say you're glazing. Do your kids use that phrase? They're like, you're glazing means like you're like gushing and going over the top. But I'm like these books are, the books are so, I wrote so many times in the book. like, I love this book. Because a lot of it I hadn't really heard of. And it helped me, like, it helped me to just be more okay with me. I'm like, our house is kind of messy and I don't care. Yeah. You don't have to. And you're like, this is not a moral thing. And I feel like I've chosen other things besides cleaning. And I'm kind of happy with my choices. So, you know, that was helpful. I'd love to kick it off here, though. I actually have never heard this phrase before, Casey, care tasks. I've never heard the phrase. So even this is like such an epiphany. You say care tasks are the
2:17.6	chores of life, like cooking, cleaning, laundry, feeding, dishes, and hygiene. Can you talk about how
2:22.9	that they are complex? They seem like they're not complex, but they actually are complex.
2:29.7	Yeah. Well, so what I like to say is that mo and the reason you haven't heard it is because I made it up.
2:35.9	I made up the term care tasks.
2:38.2	And I did that because, you know, language can be really powerful.
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