Adaptive Living

For most of my life, I set impossible expectations for myself. No matter what season I was in—single, married, with one kid, with six kids..

I used to think that if I were organized and "on top of it" enough, I wouldn't have to clean an overwhelming space. The truth is...

How to create a realistic cleaning plan you can actually stick to when you are at low capacity.

For the past few weeks we've been talking about what we have the capacity, or energy, to do. Most of us don't run on high energy or even...

3 simple facts: 1. Everything you own is getting dirty on the daily. 2. It can be unreasonably hard to keep up. 3. The above facts have...

In my experience, if a house is in chaos, it is almost always due to overwhelm. Life can be insanely busy. Depression can be...

I dropped my kids off at school and turned up the music. As I cruised down the narrow 2-lane road home, a speeding dump truck approached...

One of my biggest peeves is searching an article for the main idea and having to read through the storytelling to get there. So I'm going...