The Importance of Care Tasks

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Sally Kohn: Care tasks are not just in the home, right? There's these types of care tasks and things that need to be taken care of. They also really happen in an office and often it can be that they always fall in the same employee. She says there was something about the structure that children imparted that made some parts of care tasks easier for her but other parts harder.Kohn: If you don't have children, you can still be struggling with this and these can still be just as hard.

Let’s face it: if chores were fun, they probably wouldn’t be called that. Because for most people, life can be overwhelming – and that means it doesn’t always look like a cleaning commercial where everyone is dancing their way to do laundry, take out trash, or smiling while washing the dishes. KC Davis is a therapist, author, podcaster, and TikToker who knows that caring for yourself can be a struggle. In this episode, she shares how radically rethinking “care” tasks –like not seeing a lack of cleanliness as shameful, or viewing messiness as a moral failure– can improve our quality of life. She also shares small strategies that could help us take better care of ourselves, because we deserve it. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts