How to do laundry when you're depressed | KC Davis

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Ever had a hard time doing daily household tasks -- cooking, cleaning, laundry -- and felt like a terrible person for struggling in the first place? Therapist KC Davis is here to flip that negative internalized script with a simple yet perspective-shifting fact that may change your approach to life. Learn a gentler, more practical approach to mental health as Davis shares hard-won wisdom and helpful shortcuts on how to get by when you feel like you've barely got it together.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.5	Hi, listeners. It's Dr. Shoshana, the host of Ted Health.
0:11.4	How can you turn a mundane task into a therapeutic one?
0:15.7	Especially if it's a task you'd really rather not be doing.
0:20.4	In her August 2022 TEDx Mile High Talk,
0:24.0	therapist Casey Davis shares her personal experience with depression
0:28.4	and how she found comfort in the repetitive and mindful process
0:32.4	of doing laundry. Here how small changes in the way that we approach household chores
0:38.5	can make a big impact on our mental health. So if you're feeling overwhelmed,
0:43.6	stuck in a rut or just need a little inspiration,
0:46.6	keep listening to discover how even the smallest to do item
0:50.2	can offer some healing.
1:03.2	Hi, I'm Francis Frye and I'm Ann Morris
1:06.2	and we are the hosts of a new TED podcast called Fixable.
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1:18.1	honest, unfiltered advice we usually reserve for top executives.
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1:38.8	Shortly after I published my book, I got an email. It said,
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