Beyond the Pages: Unfuck your Habitat

 

 

Beyond the pages is a new feature that I dreamed up. I noticed I read ALOT of nonfiction but I never seem to put any of it into practice. So for 2018, I thought I would keep track of what I read for self-improvement and try to incorporate what I learn in my everyday life. The first is following the book Unfuck your Habit

To be honest my habitat really needed a serious unfucking. It looked like it could have been on an episode of Hoarders. In fact, if someone had actually sent me in an application for that show I would have been on it hands down. I used to have a serious aversion to throwing away trash. but this year I have been doing some serious therapy and I was finally ready to make my apartment look like the ones you see on the home decorating blogs.

Like everything thing else I go after I had to get a book on the topic. I came across Unfuck Your Habitat while still in therapy and loved the tone it conveyed its message in. Part tough love and part understanding it told me the information I already knew while still understanding that people with bipolar may have some issues related to keeping their habitat livable. I downloaded the app and set aside time to unfuck my habitat

The day came and OMG I was so overwhelmed by my mess all I could so be sit on the couch and wonder how I ever lived this way. It is amazing what good therapy can do. It was as if my eyes were finally open to the severity of my…hoarding. I  pulled myself together enough to beg my parents for help and my mom was like fine this ONE TIME!

The day came when my parents got here and they were all like Oh…My…God…. And for the first time in my life, I saw my mess through other peoples eyes. I never could do that before. It was as if a huge set of blinders were lifted and I saw clearly the first time the mess I  had been living in. I also felt deep shame. I am going to be honest and transparent here. I had NEVER felt such shame regarding my living quarters before but that day I did. I made a promise to MYSELF that if we got this shit cleaned up it was gonna stay clean. I would follow the Unfuck Your Habitat religiously. I even downloaded their app
I Love their app It has a timer and everything on it. You can set it to remind you to do stuff at a certain time. Like I have it set to clean out my kitten litter box at 7 pm every day.

Now I am working on incorporating routines. My favorite outtake that I did take from Unfuck Your Habitat was to work for 20 mins then take a 10 min break then repeat. Often times I will look at something and claim that I need big stretches of time to do it. I have no idea where I got the idea that to wash one dish and a couple pots and pans would take me hours but that how my head works. With the 20/10 mentality, I will just be all like ok I got 20 minutes I will do what I can. You know what? Often times it is all I need! You will be shocked at what you can accomplish in 20 minutes. I know I was.

Needless to say, the ideas in Unfuck Your Habitat is saving my butt and sanity.Click To Tweet My apartment so far has stayed spotless which makes live soooo much easier. I thought that a mess did not bother me but now I know that is not true. I feel so much better in a scrubby clean apartment.