How to keep house while drowning (w/ 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

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Let’s face it: if chores were fun, they probably wouldn’t be called that. Because for most people, life can be overwhelming – and that means it doesn’t always look like a cleaning commercial where everyone is dancing their way to do laundry, take out trash, or smiling while washing the dishes. KC Davis is a therapist, author, podcaster, and TikToker who knows that caring for yourself can be a struggle. In this episode, she shares how radically rethinking “care” tasks – like not seeing a lack of cleanliness as shameful, or viewing messiness as a moral failure – can improve our quality of life. She also shares small strategies that could help us take better care of ourselves because we deserve it. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.7	Hi everyone, this week we're sharing an episode of How to Be a Better Human, another
0:12.5	podcast in the Ted Audio Collective.
0:15.6	It's hosted by comedian Chris Duffy and all about the big and small ways we can all learn
0:20.9	to be a little less terrible.
0:22.7	Here's an episode we thought you'd like, and if you want more, follow How to Be a Better
0:27.5	Human, wherever you're listening to this.
0:35.4	You're listening to How to Be a Better Human.
0:37.4	I'm your host Chris Duffy.
0:39.5	As I've gotten older and become an official adult, a lot of the skills that I've had
0:43.2	to learn along the way have to do with how to take care of my body and how to take care
0:47.0	of my home.
0:48.6	I remember being absolutely shocked the first time that I learned that you have to scrub
0:53.0	a shower.
0:54.0	You're still honestly a little skeptical, like how can it need me to do work when all
0:59.1	I ever put in here is hot water and soap.
1:01.4	I'm giving you all the tools, shower, meet me halfway.
1:04.3	But okay fine, I'm supposed to scrub it, I've learned that.
1:07.1	Over the years I've also done my best to figure out how to do laundry dishes, whether
1:11.5	you're supposed to vacuum mop or sweep a floor, I'm still a little fuzzy on that one,
1:15.8	but I'm figuring it out, and all sorts of other skills.
1:19.1	Case guest though, Casey Davis is the author of How to Keep House While Drowning, a gentle
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