{"product_id":"book-mh5m","title":"Tidying the Abyss","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gentle, hands-on resource offering mental health-sensitive, disability-informed advice for those who do not have the privilege, bandwidth, or access to keep their home—and life—in a perfectly-ordered state.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When we see people in desperate situations, we are quick to sympathize but also quick to explain to ourselves why that \u003ci\u003ecouldn’t be us. \u003c\/i\u003eWe could never live in squalor—we’re just too responsible! We could never get a disabling illness that prevents us from easily enacting life skills—we’re always so good about exercising and taking our supplements! And we certainly couldn’t spend our lives in endless, menial suffering—we plan to be blessed!\u003cbr\u003e      But the truth is, desperation and chaos are just a few unfortunate events away for any of us. Keeping your life clean, orderly, and peaceful involves skill, but it also involves privilege, luck, and having access to a responsible adult with the bandwidth to teach you. Even then, responsibility does not save us from chaos. And when our lives are upended, our dishes, our laundry, and our bills mercilessly persist, piling around us, an oppressive burden.\u003cbr\u003e      In \u003ci\u003eTidying the Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e one-time clinical social worker and current professional organizer Amanda Dodson provides a gentle, step-by-step guide to keeping house even when one's life is turned upside-down by an unexpected and permanent change to their, or a loved-one's, ability. Dodson advocates for the abandoning of perfection to make room for creative, livable solutions, no matter where one falls on the spectrum of being chronically ill, neurodivergent, or hopeless at home maintenance. ","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50246481281328,"sku":"BDmh5m","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/mh5m-cover.jpg?v=1761976565","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-mh5m","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}