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Chasing Life

Is There Such a Thing as the Organized Brain?

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

If you’re feeling anxious or overwhelmed, taking out the trash or doing laundry is normally the last thing on your mind. Therapist KC Davis says that’s by design. Sometimes, brains are too focused on survival mode to complete even the simplest of tasks. So how can we beat this mental block? On today’s episode, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’S Chief Medical Correspondent, sits down with Davis to discuss the link between messiness and mental health. Plus, Davis shares her approach to tackling clutter from her book, “How To Keep House While Drowning.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I wonder if you would mind Casey taking me back to April of 2020 and telling me a little bit of your story.

0:41.0

So I actually gave birth to my second baby in February of 2020.

0:47.0

Wow.

0:48.0

And I had like a really great plan on how I was going to support myself.

0:52.0

You know, I was going to get myself. You know I was going to get

0:53.2

meals dropped off and I was going to get a housekeeper and my two-year-old was

0:57.9

going to go to daycare. I mean it was going to be it was airtight. That's Casey Davis.

1:03.0

She's a mom.

1:04.0

She's also a licensed therapist.

1:06.0

But sadly, these well-laid plans that she's describing,

1:09.0

they didn't happen.

1:11.0

Unfortunately, three weeks after I gave birth, I got a phone call from the daycare saying, hey,

1:16.4

lockdown has started and we're not going to be having kids anymore.

1:20.2

And that sort of dominoed effect quickly basically cutting off my access to all of that plan.

1:27.0

Like so many people, Casey's life was upended by COVID.

1:32.6

And I found myself at home with a newborn

1:37.3

and a not yet two-year-old.

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