House Moving Therapy

INTRODUCTION: Life on the floor

PART I: Beginnings
Ch 1: What makes house moving difficult (1): An explosion of decisions, or how the possessions of a two-bedroom flat can take up the seats of forty-six Boeings
Ch 2: What makes house moving difficult (2): 'Microprojects' on roots to uproot, harm to reverse, good to attempt and bullets to bite
Ch 3: What makes house moving difficult (3): Subversive emotions, but rarely the ones you feared
Ch 4: What makes house moving difficult (4): Defaults that are fat slices of our philosophy of life
Ch 5: How to make it easier? Two things to do that don't need you to lift a finger
Ch 6: Thresholds of pain
Ch 7: Parallel cleaning

PART II: On-Your-Back Things
Ch 8: "When in doubt, wear red". On clothes, the fear of truly shining, and eleven other types of psychological chaos
Ch 9: "Shoes shouldn't hurt". On shoes, lessons we were confident we have really learnt yet continue to repeat, and nine other types of psychological chaos
Ch 10 : "I sing the body electric": Sports gear and inner coxes. On sports equipment, harmful inner conversations, and ten other types of psychological chaos

PART III: House-Bound and Room-Bound Things
Ch 11: Tie yourself to a table. If tables are few, wall colour will do. On furniture, moments when our connection to a place (or a thing, or a person) snaps, and seven other types of psychological chaos
Ch 12: House decoration and painted-over soul cracks. On decoration and art, and traumas from our childhood homes that mark us for life
Ch 13: Liaisons dangereuses. On bedding, towels and other 'huggables', and on the self-defeating associations between a physical and an emotional home
Ch 14: Hunger games. On food, cooking and eating utensils, and almost any form of psychological chaos you can imagine, including fifteen dysfunctional 'eating personality' types

PART IV: Boundary-Crossing Things
Ch 15: Your amazing technicolour dreamhouse and the taken-for-granted. On electrics and electronics, the unglamorous essential ingredient of success and happiness they jeopardise, and five other types of psychological chaos
Ch 16: Do It Yourself. Nevermore. On DIY equipment, culturally inherited beliefs about what it means to be a true man or woman, and three other types of psychological chaos
Ch 17: You are not just a number. On paperwork and the glorious visions we have (had) for our lives v. the lacklustre of the everyday
Ch 18: Home in a bottle of face wash. On cosmetics, guilty pleasures and blindingly obvious things that took you decades to see
Ch 19: The books of life. On books and lives that need saving
Ch 20: The dark bronze envelope. On sentimental items and myths of letting go

PART V: Final Things
Ch 21: Boxing it. On boxes, suitcases and bags, and the tinge of dissatisfaction at endings that aren't a perfect closure
Ch 22: What makes a true home

Acknowledgements
List of Boxes
Disclaimer

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• Estilo de vida ecologica e auto-suficiência
• Habitação e propriedade - compra / venda e aspectos legais
• Auto-ajuda e desenvolvimento pessoal
• Manutenção do lar e da casa

house moving; decluttering; home; love; self-love; break-ups; green living; recycling; personal growth; psychology; self-help