Make Peace With Housework Blog http://makepeacewithhousework.com Make Peace with Housework - Strategies to keep you sane Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:58:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Up. The antidote to down. http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/up-the-antidote-to-down/ http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/up-the-antidote-to-down/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:58:11 +0000 Danielle http://makepeacewithhousework.com/?p=995   With apologies to Shakespeare:   Housework is neither good nor bad, but feeling makes it so.  When housework blues are a problem, the source of our angst is not the work, as such – it’s how we feel about it. There are people who aren’t troubled by their domestic workload. (It’s true!) Some even enjoy [...]

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]]> http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/wishing-you/feed/ 0 It’s only Christmas. http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/its-only-christmas/ http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/its-only-christmas/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:29:23 +0000 Danielle http://makepeacewithhousework.com/?p=877 It’s Christmas. Again.  Do you remember when you were little, and it used to feel like an absolute age before Christmas came round again? Now, though, the years tend to fly by a little quicker. Christmas seems to reappear ever faster. But then, it is a yearly event and a year is not that long a [...]

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]]> http://makepeacewithhousework.com/books/housework-give-me-strength/feed/ 0 How do you feel about New Year’s Resolutions? http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/how-do-you-feel-about-new-years-resolutions/ http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/how-do-you-feel-about-new-years-resolutions/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:56:52 +0000 Danielle http://makepeacewithhousework.com/?p=605 It’s that New Year time of year again…. I love it – I love all the optimism and Fresh Start energy. I love to think of the coming year, a clean slate, just waiting for our lives to be written across it.  However, I know not everyone is a fan of the conventional New Year, [...]

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]]> http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/how-do-you-feel-about-new-years-resolutions/feed/ 0 Celebrate: A habit for life…not just for Christmas. http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/celebrate-a-habit-for-life-not-just-for-christmas/ http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/celebrate-a-habit-for-life-not-just-for-christmas/#comments Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:29:11 +0000 Danielle http://makepeacewithhousework.com/?p=602 Tis the season, once again. Christmas. Whether you celebrate the religious feast, or the culinary feast – or both (like me) – this time of year is dedicated to all things merry and bright. It’s a time for focussing on the joyful, turning our attention to the wonderful and celebrating all that’s good.  Depending on [...]

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]]> http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/hold-that-spring-cleaning/feed/ 0 The MPWH Top Ten Twenty-Ten Tip Top Top Tips http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/the-mpwh-top-ten-twenty-ten-tip-top-top-tips/ http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/the-mpwh-top-ten-twenty-ten-tip-top-top-tips/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:59:02 +0000 Danielle http://makepeacewithhousework.com/?p=108 Happy New Year! I know I am fashionably late but I have spent the last few weeks busily converting this entire blog into an ebook format, for your reading pleasure. During this process, I was struck by how many useful ideas I’ve stumbled across over the last year or two. Despite the fact that I’ve [...]

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]]> http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/the-mpwh-top-ten-twenty-ten-tip-top-top-tips/feed/ 0 The Other Woman (Book extract from Housework Blues) http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/the-other-woman-book-extract-from-housework-blues/ http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/the-other-woman-book-extract-from-housework-blues/#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:56:52 +0000 Danielle http://makepeacewithhousework.com/?p=168   Inferiority is relative. It needs something or someone else to be compared to. A sense of inferiority arises from comparing ourselves to someone else, someone supposedly superior. Why do we do that? Is it helpful? Very often, it isn’t but it can be automatic and unconscious. It’s a natural human tendency. Everybody does it. [...]

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]]> http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/how-to-get-more-of-what-you-want-step-2/feed/ 0 May your heart be light. http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/may-your-heart-be-light/ http://makepeacewithhousework.com/blog/may-your-heart-be-light/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:19:33 +0000 Danielle http://makepeacewithhousework.com/?p=111 Oh, Christmas… For all the joy and magic of this festive season, there’s no doubt that Christmas brings with it a good deal of extra work and things to do. There are the parties and visits to and from friends and family… Then there’s all that present planning and buying, wrapping and giving… There’s all [...]

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