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 created the Adaptive Cleaning System because I was tired of expecting too much from myself and then failing. I would make to-do lists that

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...

My mother-in-law has always had an immaculate home. There's never any dust, misplaced items, smudges on glass, or table crumbs. My home...

I created the Adaptive Cleaning System because I was tired of expecting too much from myself and then failing. I would make to-do lists that

Question of the week: "I still struggle doing admin tasks. I get overwhelmed because I cannot concentrate properly, my brain feels too...

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...

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

Your house being a complete disaster does not mean that you aren’t a good person, that you’re not a responsible person, that you don’t...

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...