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Are you drowning under the invisible workload of managing a modern home?
Juggling everyone else’s needs while your own well-being gets lost in the chaos?
If you feel overwhelmed, exhausted, and like your to-do list is never finished—you are not alone.
Lisa Woodruff, founder of Organize 365® and host of the top-rated Organize 365® Podcast, has helped thousands break free from the suffocating duties of house management by teaching one powerful truth: Prioritize your needs first.
In the book Escaping Quicksand, Lisa shares how women today are sinking in the complexity of modern life. With each passing birthday, the compounding roles and responsibilities for adults continue to increase, leading to an untenable pace of productivity. Overwhelm multiplies, consuming all free time, with no obligations that can be decluttered. Perfection- never attainable to begin with- is discarded, leaving women feeling defeated. They feel they have failed to achieve the ‘perfect adult life’ they were striving for.
But what if you could keep your roles and responsibilities without the expectation of perfection and the anxiety that comes with it? Replacing perfection with ‘Being a Woman of Excellence’ can reduce your anxiety. Women of Excellence put in excellent effort in everything they do, but they do not expect the results to be perfect.
The process of becoming a Woman of Excellence begins with self-care. Academia has defined child care and elder care, but not self-care. Self-care encompasses all the adult years of your life before you need another adult to provide for your needs as an elder.
The lack of a proper self-care definition leaves women feeling like any time spent on themselves is selfish, when in fact it is essential. The first step in establishing supportive self-care is to care for your adult needs first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Bookending your days with simple, curated routines for yourself signifies the importance of including yourself in the many people you care for. You must begin to take care of yourself so that you can continue to take care of others.
Escaping Quicksand is a lifeline for overwhelmed high-performing women who are trying to juggle it all – balancing their own homes, the needs of aging parents, adult children, and modern family complexity.
Through practical strategies and relatable stories, Lisa shows that intentional organization and self-care are not luxuries, but learnable skills that form the foundation of a purposeful, peaceful life. By prioritizing your self-care, you can break free from reactive living, which has kept you trapped in a cycle of freeing yourself from quicksand.
In Escaping Quicksand, readers will learn how to:
- Identify the “quicksand” that’s draining their time and emotional energy
- Replace chaos with simple, sustainable routines
- Understand why “Swiss cheese organizing” fails—and what actually works
- Create systems that support the whole household, not just its tasks
- Reclaim their mental bandwidth using the Sunday Basket method
- Embrace self-care as essential leadership, not indulgence
- Build a home life that reflects who they are and who they’re becoming
Escaping Quicksand is your path out of overwhelm and into a life designed with intention, confidence, and joy.
Your transformation begins here!
In Escaping Quicksand, You’ll Discover:
- Why overwhelm isn’t a personal failure, but a symptom of self-neglect
- The 10 essential steps to reclaiming control, confidence, and calm at home
- Proven frameworks to turn invisible work into manageable systems
- How operationalizing self-care leads to greater clarity, freedom, and empowerment
- Practical, relatable stories and tools for making yourself a priority—so you can care for others from a place of strength
Pre-Order Hard Cover Now & Claim $319 in FREE Bonuses!
Claim your exclusive gifts when you order your hard cover copy today:
- Early Access to the Audiobook ($20 value) Start listening before anyone else! – Book Club bonuses and chapters are delivered early starting March 3rd!
- NEW: Escaping Quicksand Weekly Book Club ($299 value) Join Lisa Weekly to work through all 10 steps together! Includes interactive training and a Q&A. (Only available to pre-order customers!)
Total Bonus Value: $319 – Yours FREE with your hard cover pre-order!
How to Claim Your Bonuses - Must Order Hard Cover
Step 1: Pre-order your HARD COVER copy of Escaping Quicksand from Amazon or Barnes and Noble
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Step 3: Check your email inbox for instructions on how to access the Escaping Quicksand Weekly Book Club!
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Why This Book?
Escaping Quicksand is for the overwhelmed, high-achieving woman who’s tired of juggling it all. Lisa’s message is clear: self-care is not optional—it’s the foundation that brings back control, peace, and productivity.
You’ll learn to operationalize self-care, gain clarity, connect with community, and finally put yourself back in the driver’s seat.
What Readers Are Saying...
Lisa Woodruff's organizing systems have given our family something priceless—time. By implementing her practical frameworks, we've reclaimed nearly 20% of our week that was previously lost to searching, deciding, and managing household chaos. Ten Steps to Overcome the Overwhelm of Modern Homelife is the guide every busy family needs to escape the quicksand of disorganization and finally breathe.
Brandon Seigel
CEO of Wellness Works Management Partners
Lisa Woodruff’s routines—like the Sunday Basket and so many others she teaches—have been truly game-changing for me over the years. They’ve helped me manage complex schedules, run multiple companies, and juggle family life with confidence, all while making everything feel simpler and never like I’m dropping the ball.
Stephanie Fowler
Founder & CEO, Austin | Fowler
"Lisa Woodruff has been championing the real, demanding work of home management long before it was trendy to talk about mental load and invisible labor. In Escaping Quicksand, she brings her signature warmth and no-nonsense practicality to women who are ready to pull themselves out of daily overwhelm. This isn't another book telling you to work harder or be better, but a game plan from someone who genuinely understands what you're up against and has spent years developing systems that actually work. Lisa has a gift for naming the invisible expectations that need to be challenged and thinking strategically about the business of running a household."
Angela Watson
Founder, Due Season Press and Educational Services, LLC
This is a book to savor, and to keep handy for the transitions we face as women.
Jacquie Denny
Everything But The House
Running a household requires more skills and strategies than most people think! In this practical and encouraging book, Lisa shows how to manage the mental load and build good routines, so you can stop floundering and start living the life you want.
Laura Vanderkam
author of Big Time and I Know How She Does It
About Lisa Woodruff
Lisa Woodruff is the founder & CEO of Organize 365®, host of the top-rated Organize 365® Podcast, and a nationally recognized expert on making the invisible work of home life visible and manageable. Through her research-backed frameworks and relatable teaching style, Lisa has helped thousands of overwhelmed, high-achieving women transform chaos into clarity and regain control of their homes and lives. In her latest book, Escaping Quicksand: 10 Steps to Overcome the Overwhelm of Modern Homelife, Lisa empowers readers to prioritize their self-care, operationalize organization, and reclaim peace, confidence, and freedom at home and beyond.
“I wrote Escaping Quicksand for everyone who has ever felt crushed by the never-ending duties of home.
You deserve to feel in control, confident, and free. Let’s make yourself a priority—together.”
Ready to reclaim your peace and power?
Questions? Email customerservice@organize365.com.