TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 7, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- One mother locks out her whole family until she finishes cleaning the entire house; another waits until all her dishes have been used before washing them. What has made them clean the way they do? How do they perceive housework? "Escape the Black Cloud of Housework" (now available through 1stBooks Library) by Laurel Zigler is a groundbreaking book that aims to help people, especially mothers, understand their deep-seated motivations regarding housekeeping.
Zigler hopes that people, through her book, will develop a balanced, guilt-free and mature attitude towards homemaking. From the perfectionist woman to the nonchalant homemaker, Zigler documents the different types of housekeepers and why they keep house the way they do. Zigler believes that the way people keep house has something to do with what's deep within them and has an influence on their very existence. Unlocking this mystery will help free people from harmful baggage that can spoil their happiness.
"If we understand why we are the kind of housekeeper we have become, discover where we got our beliefs and why we have them, we can find freedom. A freedom that can release us from the 'Black Clouds' that shadow us and sometimes even affect our happiness," she says.
Zigler provides exercises to help the reader determine what type of homemaker he or she is. She brings the reader step by step through the cleaning of the house and helps him or her get rid of the guilt associated with not doing the "fall" or "spring cleaning." Zigler hopes that at the end of the book, the reader will feel a sense of joy and peace. The reader may muster the strength to change his or her ways, or feel contented with the kind of homemaker he or she is.
Zigler also had her own "Black Cloud" in her 20s and 30s while she was raising three children in eastern Oregon. She was a perfectionist housekeeper, a "super-mom." It took years for her to temper her perfectionism and escape the guilt that drove it. Her first book, "When I was a Kid," was published in 1996. She now lives in Tucson, Ariz.
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