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“You must take care of yourself so that you can take care of others.”

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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:

  1. Identify the “quicksand” that’s draining their time and emotional energy 
  2. Replace chaos with simple, sustainable routines
  3. Understand why “Swiss cheese organizing” fails—and what actually works
  4. Create systems that support the whole household, not just its tasks
  5. Reclaim their mental bandwidth using the Sunday Basket method
  6. Embrace self-care as essential leadership, not indulgence
  7. Build a home life that reflects who they are and who they’re becoming
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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:

  1. Why overwhelm isn’t a personal failure, but a symptom of self-neglect 
  2. The 10 essential steps to reclaiming control, confidence, and calm at home 
  3. Proven frameworks to turn invisible work into manageable systems 
  4. How operationalizing self-care leads to greater clarity, freedom, and empowerment 
  5. Practical, relatable stories and tools for making yourself a priority—so you can care for others from a place of strength 

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Claim your exclusive gifts when you order your hard cover copy today:

  1. Early Access to the Audiobook ($20 value) Start listening before anyone else! – Book Club bonuses and chapters are delivered early starting March 3rd!
  2. 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!

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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.

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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 SeigelCEO 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 FowlerFounder & 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 WatsonFounder, 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 DennyEverything 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 Vanderkamauthor of Big Time and I Know How She Does It
"Escaping Quicksand" by the incredible Lisa K. Woodruff, PhD, is more than just a book; it's a profound, timely intervention. Lisa possesses the magnetic ability to draw you into a moment of time, allowing you to live out that experience as if it were your own. She finds a way to connect, relate to you, and magically, somehow, you realize you have parallel lives.
Myla Perry CLC, BD(DONA), C-CHW Founder of NyNi Inc.
Lisa Woodruff is the voice I want in my ear whenever my life shifts and I need to rebuild my systems. Escaping Quicksand is far more than a book on getting organized--it's a manifesto for allowing yourself to build the life you deserve, and a manual for making it happen.
KJ Dell’AntoniaNew York Times best-selling author of The Chicken Sisters and How to Be a Happier Parent
Escaping Quicksand powerfully reframes the role of the household manager as essential not only to the family but also to our broader economy and culture. As a business owner and husband, I appreciate how she connects leadership, systems, and intentional planning inside the home to long-term success outside of it. This book challenges us to recognize and value the invisible work that sustains our lives and careers. If you want to reduce overwhelm and build a stronger foundation for your family, this is a must-read.
Anton J. GunnLeadership Expert | Strategic Advisor
Lisa Woodruff gets it. In Escaping Quicksand, Lisa captures exactly what I needed to hear at this stage of life. She puts into words ideas I've been trying to define for myself, like what self-care truly means in the midst of real life. Lisa talks about organization and productivity in a way that goes far beyond pretty Instagrammable labeled containers in the pantry. Her message is important: You aren't failing and your home should not be a source of overwhelm and exhaustion. This book is a powerful reminder that with the right systems, you can improve management of your household with greater clarity, confidence, and ease. 
Danielle LissOwner of Liss Legal
As a woman business owner running a company and a household, I have learned from Lisa that I am running two businesses. All female business owners really are. Lisa Woodruff helped me see that the invisible work we do is real work too, and it must be accounted for. The little fairy who fixed everything when we were children does not show up in adulthood. No one is coming to rescue you. You build the systems. You create the order. I am still a work in progress, but Lisa has helped me get out of my own way. By building simple operational systems at home, just like the SOPs in my marketing agency, I freed up the capacity to launch my passion project, my SHE’s On Point Podcast, where women business owners share their stories to inspire others. The shift from perfectionism to excellence changed everything. It gave me the courage to start imperfectly and grow as I go.  Thank you, Lisa! You have singlehandedly given me so many systems from the Sunday Basket to the Productive Home Solution. You have truly thought of it ALL, and I am eternally grateful!  Perfectionism keeps you stuck. Excellence moves you forward.
Michelle EstradaFounder SHE's On Point Podcast
As a school principal and a professional organizer, I see firsthand how chaos - whether at work, at home, or in life -keeps talented women from reaching their potential. In Escaping Quicksand, Lisa Woodruff offers ten clear, practical steps that cut through overwhelm and create lasting momentum. Her compassionate voice, real-world stories strategies, and focus on systems that stick make this book both empowering and eminently usable. I recommend it to any woman ready to move from stuck to steady progress.
Jayme HerbertJayme Herbert
Lisa’s new book, Escaping Quicksand, is a true life raft for anyone who feels like they’re drowning in their own home. With her brilliant blend of practical, real-life strategies and a refreshingly no-nonsense approach to efficiency, Lisa shows you how to run your household with the clarity and confidence of a seasoned CEO. She doesn’t just make effective home management feel achievable; she makes it empowering. This powerful book is a must-read for anyone overwhelmed by the demands of home and life.
Cassandra AarssenCEO and Creator of Clutterbug™
As a child, my sisters and I were convinced the shallow creek behind our home was filled with quicksand that would suck us in if we dared step too close. Reading Escaping Quicksand, now as a 40-year-old home manager, unexpectedly brought those childhood memories back. While my fear of literal quicksand vanished decades ago, the weight of modern homelife can feel relentless -- like the physical, mental, and emotional demands of managing a home and family are slowly sucking our sanity and joy. If you can relate, you will find a helping hand in Escaping Quicksand, where Lisa provides practical steps that help you stop the downward "suck", regain your footing, and forge a path forward. She reminds us that escaping overwhelm doesn’t require superhuman strength, but rather, the right tools and intentional action. I am deeply grateful for Lisa's encouragement, her humorous stories that prove she gets it, and the years of research and expertise she brings to the often-glossed-over concept of home management.
Andrea Dekker(andreadekker.com)
Escaping Quicksand is a breath of fresh air in the productivity literature canon!  Lisa Woodruff is raw, honest, and highly entertaining, and she offers so many practical and empowering tips for those climbing out of their own quicksand valleys.  This is a book for women in the thick of it, told from a perspective of an author who truly understands.  
Sarah Hart-Ungerpodcaster and author of Best Laid Plans: A Simple Planning System for Living a Life That You Love
As a team and leadership coach, I help ambitious women navigate the growing complexity of their professional roles. What often goes unspoken is that their leadership doesn’t end at work.  It follows them home, where they carry an enormous amount of responsibility that few people fully see.
Shelli WarrenTeam and Leadership Coach Stacking Your Team, 1000 Islands Leadership Consulting
Every woman needs this book! Lisa has figured out what’s draining us! She doesn’t just point it out…she gives us clear, doable steps to get back sacred time.
Traci BakerPhotographer & Small Business Owner
As a Direct Sales/Small Business Trainer, mom and someone who’s juggling a lot of moving pieces every day, I know how easy it is to feel like you’re doing everything and still always falling behind. 
Melanie MooreDirect Sales/Small Business Trainer

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.

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“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?

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