you start with her explanation of what struggle care is<\/a>, including her description of spoon theory and six pillars of struggle care.<\/p>\n\n\n\nA mind-blowing idea: Your space should serve you.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n The first mind-blowing idea of KC\u2019s that I came across was that your (physical) space should serve you, not the other way around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What exactly does that mean? Instead of being a slave to your assumptions of how your physical space should work, cleaning, laundry, and chores, you make these things work for you instead<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCare tasks are morally neutral.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n The second mind-blowing idea that KC promotes, which I encourage you to practice adopting immediately, <\/em>is that care tasks are morally neutral. There is no virtue in having a clean kitchen or your laundry folded.<\/strong> No sin is associated with having a sink full of dishes or not having washed your sheets forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\nEverything Teach Me Self Care is heavily influenced by functional behaviouralism and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT). There are two important points influenced by these lenses that I want to share with you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cRight\u201d and \u201cwrong\u201d as labels applied to behaviour are unhelpful. Instead, what matters is if a specific behaviour is workable or unworkable<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\nTo know if a behaviour is workable, we need to know what is important to us (our values).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n(KC uses the label \u201cfunctional,\u201d which is another label for workable).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other words, you can structure your life, space, and care activities in whatever way works for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nSome examples of making your space serve you.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n As I write this post, I am camped in my basement beside my washer and dryer. I intend to spend my entire day here. Why? Because it\u2019s the only way I\u2019ll get my laundry done. I am notorious, otherwise, for putting in a load of laundry, wandering away, remembering it two days later, and having to re-wash it\u2026. you get the drift. To prevent this, I park myself here and either work or read while I do laundry. Many people have seen me Zoom into a meeting from my (blurred out) basement!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are some other ways to make your space serve you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\nAllowing yourself to live out of a clean basket of laundry instead of putting it away\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n \nI never purchase clothes I have to iron. I don\u2019t even own<\/em> an iron.\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n\nUsing rooms in your house in ways they \u201caren\u2019t intended.\u201d For example, I have friends who turned their dining room into an art room for their family because they eat in their kitchen\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n Using paper plates and disposable utensils when you are very busy or overwhelmed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nAnd KC has a ton of helpful recommendations on her Resources page<\/a>! One of my faves is her strategy of having multiple toothbrushes.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn self-care solidarity,<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Making your space serve YOU. Some notes on workability, encouragement to think outside the (space) box, a really awesome resource, and a note on moral neutrality. A few years ago, I fell in love with KC Davis\u2019 Struggle Care website, social media feeds, and book. I think a lot of you will love her work Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/teachmeselfcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/annie-spratt-5TfCI4nj6B4-unsplash-600x400.webp","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/teachmeselfcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/annie-spratt-5TfCI4nj6B4-unsplash-600x600.webp","author_info":{"display_name":"Jorden","author_link":"https:\/\/teachmeselfcare.com\/author\/shawn\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachmeselfcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachmeselfcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachmeselfcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachmeselfcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachmeselfcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teachmeselfcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/teachmeselfcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachmeselfcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachmeselfcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachmeselfcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachmeselfcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}