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Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Christine Kohwww.edityourlifeshow.com
Overwhelmed by "shoulds"? Struggle with perfectionism and boundary setting? Feel like you don't have time for the things you actually want to do? Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. Hosted by Christine Koh (+ Asha Dornfest 2015 to 2021).

Episodes

How to Declutter with Kids

Are you struggling with the volume of kid stuff? Christine and Asha share 9 tips for how to declutter with kids in a way that is respectful and compassionate while also being tactical. Many of the recommendations also apply to decluttering with household members. For links and resources mentioned during the episode, visit the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relat...

Apr 24, 202533 min

Mini Edit: Dismantling Fitness Narratives

Christine shares how she addressed and reframed 7 barriers to entry in order to dismantle fitness narratives. The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where host Christine Koh answers your questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home and more. Send your Mini Edit questions to [email protected] or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Subscribe to Christine’s personal newsletter at Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit po...

Apr 21, 202510 min

Holistic Home Organization (with Ashley Hines)

Overwhelmed by how to make changes to your home that align with how you truly want to live? Christine chats with holistic home organizer Ashley Hines about handling organizational overwhelm, decluttering wins, mindful home edits, system maintenance and more. For links and resources visit the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. Connect...

Apr 17, 202544 min

Mini Edit: Gardening Plans + Newbie Tips

Christine is fired up to experiment in the dirt this spring. She shares about her gardening plans for the spring and summer, plus four newbie tips. For links and resources visit the show notes. The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where host Christine Koh answers your questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home and more. Send your Mini Edit questions to [email protected] or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Subscribe to Chr...

Apr 14, 20259 min

Why I Love Clothing Rental [Encore!]

Have you ever wondered about clothing rental? Christine has rented since the fall of 2022 to the exclusion of buying clothes, with the exception of underwear and a couple of pairs of basic jeans. She shares her original “My Clothing Rental Experiment” episode and follows with encore notes about why she decided to stick with clothing rental after her professional transition, what she loves about it, and what she has learned in years since starting her membership. For links and resources, visit th...

Apr 10, 202537 min

Mini Edit: 4 Ways to Shift Noticing Patterns and Actions

Christine shares 4 ways to shift noticing patterns and actions as a way to let go of aggravations and nurture relationships. For links and resources visit the show notes. The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where host Christine Koh answers your questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home and more. Send your Mini Edit questions to [email protected] or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Subscribe to Christine’s personal newsl...

Apr 07, 20259 min

Disrupting Traditional Fashion Advice + Finding Your Authentic Style (with Dacy Gillespie)

Are you tired of feeling less than, simply existing in your body? Christine talks with Dacy Gillespie about body acceptance and drawing awareness to our body stories, dismantling the narrative around all manner of flattering advice, how to tune in and find your unique style, embracing your changing body, and more. For links and resources, visit the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, sche...

Apr 03, 202546 min

Mini Edit: March Micro Delights

Christine shares 5 delightful things from March. For links and resources, visit the show notes. The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where host Christine Koh answers your questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home and more. Send your Mini Edit questions to [email protected] or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 31, 20259 min

How to Talk + Learn About Race (with Amber Coleman-Mortley)

We all need need to do the work, and will be better for it. Christine talks with Amber Coleman-Mortley, who maintains a frame of you don’t know what you don’t know, recognizes that we all make mistakes and that things can get uncomfortable, encourages curiosity and empathy and connecting at a human level, and wants us to lift others up. She makes talking about race as easy as talking about sandwiches. Literally. This compassionate episode is loaded with practical advice. Edit Your Life is an awa...

Mar 27, 202537 min

Mini Edit: The Power of Seasons Within Seasons

Christine shares five reasons why she believes it is powerful to narrow the scope of focus within typical seasons of life—for example, childhood, young adulthood, midlife—to seasons within seasons. For links and resources visit the show notes. The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where host Christine Koh answers your questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home and more. Send your Mini Edit questions to [email protected] or DM @edi...

Mar 24, 20259 min

Helping Seniors Transition with Compassion (with Grace Rehman)

Are you part of the sandwich generation, working to support a senior with a transition? Christine talks with Grace Rehman about how to compassionately approach senior downsizing and other transitions. They talk about how to hold a lens focused on dignity and respect, dealing with downsizing resistance and volume, and more. For links and resources visit the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your ho...

Mar 20, 202541 min

Nurturing Your Relationships Under Stress

When we’re stressed, all kinds of things can suffer, including our ability to communicate with other people. In this episode Christine and Asha share 7 tips for nurturing your relationship under stress, and then Christine follows with 5 additional recommendations. For links and resources, visit the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. ...

Mar 13, 202529 min

Mini Edit: 4 Intriguing Relationship Reads

Christine shares about four recent reads with intriguing and complex relationships threads. For links and related resources visit the show notes. The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where host Christine Koh answers your questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home and more. Send your Mini Edit questions to [email protected] or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adcho...

Mar 10, 20259 min

Lighthouse Parenting (with Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg)

Wondering about how to parent in a way that increases trust, care, and communication while reducing hovering, distance, and conflict? Christine talks with Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg about lighthouse parenting. They discuss the importance of the long view in parenting, hovering vs. preparation, how to handle stumbles, and more. For links and resources, visit the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your hom...

Mar 06, 202551 min

Mini Edit: 7 Mood Boosting Tactics

Christine shares 7 mood boosting tactics for when you’re feeling meh. For links visit the show notes. The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where host Christine Koh answers your questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home and more. Send your Mini Edit questions to [email protected] or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 03, 20257 min

Creating Change Through Conversation + Community (with Dr. Nilanjana Dasgupta)

Feeling overwhelmed and hopeless about how to enact change right now? Christine talks with Dr. Nilanjana Dasgupta about focusing on the power of how we make change at a more immediate, community level, starting right in our neighborhoods. They talk about how to keep going during overwhelming times, how to connect within your neighborhood, the power of storytelling, dealing with performative diversity practices in the workplace, and more. For links and resources, visit the show notes. Edit Your L...

Feb 27, 20251 hr

Mini Edit: February Micro Delights

Christine shares 5 delightful things from February. For links and resources, visit the show notes. The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where host Christine Koh answers your questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home and more. Send your Mini Edit questions to [email protected] or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 24, 20259 min

Weekend Food Prep Tactics + Ideas [Encore!]

Christine introduces a new periodic series: “Encore!” episodes won’t just be straight rebroadcasts, they will include fresh tweaks and hacks not in the original episode. Inspired by recent online chatter about her weekend food prep tactics, Christine brings back this weekend food prep episode and adds four encore notes. For links and resources, see the show notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 20, 202535 min

Mini Edit: 8 Ways to Prioritize Community

Christine shares why community building has been on her mind and 8 intentions she is working on to prioritize her community. For links and resources, visit the show notes. The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where host Christine Koh answers your questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home and more. Send your Mini Edit questions to [email protected] or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

Feb 17, 202511 min

Quick Reading Hacks + Book Recommendations (with Traci Thomas)

Do you want to read more but can’t seem to find the time? Christine chats with Traci Thomas about the why and how around reading, how to handle book slumps, reading as a connective thread, and more—including Traci’s only true reading goal, which is shockingly doable. For links and resources mentioned during the episode, check out the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do lis...

Feb 13, 202549 min

Mini Edit: A Story About Redirecting Crappy Mojo

Christine shares about a simple tactic to redirect crappy mojo, and six observations that resulted. For links and related resources, visit the show notes. The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where host Christine Koh answers your questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home and more. Send your Mini Edit questions to [email protected] or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices....

Feb 10, 202513 min

Making Room for Creativity

Now that we’re officially past the month of resolutions and starting new everything let’s talk about creativity. In this conversation from the locked archive, Christine and Asha share 8 evergreen recommendations for how to make room for creativity, whether through creation or consumption. For links and related episodes, visit the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, r...

Feb 06, 202539 min

Mini Edit: 4 Key Digital Organization Tactics

Christine shares about 4 key digital organization tactics she executed right before her aged phone and laptop both died. For links visit the show notes. The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where host Christine Koh answers your questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home and more. Send your Mini Edit questions to [email protected] or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.co...

Feb 03, 202510 min

Simple Food Reset Tactics

Are you looking to engage in some simple food reset tactics? In this episode brought forth from the locked archive, Christine and Asha share 8 tips related to food-positive recalibration, thinking about your seasonal patterns, reminding yourself about food you love, and figuring out little ways to add nourishing and hydrating elements to your daily routine. For links and related episodes, visit the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expe...

Jan 30, 202524 min

Mini Edit: January Micro Delights

Christine shares 5 delightful things from January. For links visit the show notes. The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where host Christine Koh answers your questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home and more. Send your Mini Edit questions to [email protected] or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 27, 20259 min

Moving Past People Pleasing (with Amy Wilson)

Are you struggling to advocate for yourself, or are you tired of advocating for yourself and being met with advice to fix yourself? Christine chats with Amy Wilson about moving past people pleasing. They talk about self-awareness and self-acceptance, boundaries, opting out, and more. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. Connect with host Christine...

Jan 23, 202546 min

Mini Edit: 4 Captivating Bestselling Books

Christine shares 4 bestselling books that captivated her attention. For book links, visit the show notes. The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where host Christine Koh answers your questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home and more. Send your Mini Edit questions to [email protected] or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 20, 20259 min

Morality, Politics, and How to Find Common Ground (with Dr. Kurt Gray)

Are you struggling with how to talk to people and find a way forward amidst the country’s divisiveness? Christine talks with Dr. Kurt Gray about the connection between our evolutionary past, modern day threats, and moral outrage and political disagreements. They cover tactics related to tough conversations, social media, parenting, and more. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, r...

Jan 16, 202544 min

Mini Edit: 7 Ways to Disrupt Responsive Culture

Christine shares 7 tips for disrupting responsive culture with intention and care. The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where host Christine Koh answers your questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home and more. Send your Mini Edit questions to [email protected] or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 13, 202512 min

Reframing + Planning Career Pauses (with Neha Ruch)

Are you tired of that (tired!) question, “What do you do?” as an at-home parent? Christine converses with Neha Ruch about career breaks after kids, household labor visibility, redefining success during a pause, positioning yourself to return to work, and more. For links, visit the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. Connect with host ...

Jan 09, 202548 min
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