Inner Housekeeping

We keep our kitchens clean and our closets in order, yet most of us have never tended the home where we actually live: the inner space of thought, feeling, and being from which we meet the world. In Inner Housekeeping, psychotherapist and Designed To Be Awake podcast host Mick Kubiak offers a warm, practical, and quietly radical guide to reclaiming that space. Built around a simple three-week practice - just five minutes a day to begin - the book moves from quieting the thinking mind (Week One), to feeling emotions fully and safely in the body (Week Two), to resting in the deeper presence Kubiak calls the True Self (Week Three). Each week pairs clear, step-by-step instruction with day-by-day support, candid FAQs, and reflective "Space Between" interludes that let readers move at their own pace. What sets this guide apart is its focus on meditation's original purpose. Against a culture that markets the practice as a stress-reduction tool or productivity hack, Kubiak makes the case that meditation is, at heart, a way home - a direct, felt connection to the divine, the source and ground of all being. That is the "advanced meditation" the subtitle promises, made fully accessible to the absolute beginner. Drawing on a career as a practicing psychotherapist alongside Zen, Taoist, and contemplative Christian wisdom, Kubiak delivers profound teaching with disarming humor and zero pretension. For new and experienced meditators alike, Inner Housekeeping is an invitation to close your eyes and walk through the front door to your inner home.

CONTENTS Preface 1 Introduction 3 Week One: Opening the Door 13 Week One Instructions 19 Week One Day By Day 27 Week One FAQs 42 The Space Between Week One and Week Two 49 Week Two: Feeling Your Feelings 59 Week Two Instructions 67 Week Two Day By Day 73 Week Two FAQs 85 The Space Between Week Two and Week Three 93 Week Three: Coming Home 101 Week Three Instructions 105 Week Three Day By Day 109 Epilogue: Home Sweet Home 127