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

Christine shares about the process she developed to finally tame reusable container clutter. Send your questions to Christine at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM or comment on a post on Facebook or Instagram at @edityourlifeshow. LINKS/RELATED EPISODES: Mini-Edit: The Magic of Kitchen Batch Prepping  The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where host Christine Koh answers your qu...

How can we show up to do good work while respecting the many complex dimensions of our humanity? Christine talks with artist, activist, and author Danielle Coke Balfour about expanding the definition of creativity, values alignment, living with intention, tapping into hope while respecting grief, and more. LINKS/RELATED EPISODES: Danielle Coke Balfour: website (including shop) + A Heart on Fire: 1...

Christine shares about the magic of kitchen batch prepping. Send your questions to Christine at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM or comment on a post on Facebook or Instagram at @edityourlifeshow. LINKS/RELATED EPISODES (for recipe links head to the show notes): Weekend Food Prep Mini Edit: Gluten-Free Favorites Mini Edit: Favorite Baking Tools The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your L...

Christine shares about how poster board changed her calendaring life. Send your questions to Christine at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM or comment on a post on Facebook or Instagram at @edityourlifeshow. LINKS/RELATED EPISODES: Serendipity Space Making Time for What Matters (with Laura Vanderkam) Perfectly Imperfect Planning (with Sarah Hart-Unger) Finding Your Fringe Hours (with Jessica Turner...

Do you struggle with conversations with your kids? Christine chats with author and podcaster Dr. Robyn Silverman about key communication tips, identity formation, emotional expression, handling mistakes and failure, and more. LINKS/RELATED EPISODES: Dr. Robyn Silverman: podcast host of How To Talk To Kids About Anything + author of the forthcoming book How to Talk to Kids about Anything: Tips, Scr...

Christine shares 7 tips for how to get kids functional in the kitchen. Send your questions to Christine at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM or comment on a post on Facebook or Instagram at @edityourlifeshow. LINKS/RELATED EPISODES: How To Teach Kids To Cook How To Get Kids To Do Chores How to Teach Kids Life Skills Raising Functional + Kind Kids (with Catherine Newman) Putting the fun in functiona...

Are you ready for a satisfying approach to micro decluttering? Christine shares the results of her experiment testing out a 30-50% decluttering target, including what worked, what didn’t, and what surprised her. LINKS/RELATED EPISODES: Fall Edits (+ A New Decluttering Target) Organized Living Solutions (with Shira Gill) Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for dec...

Christine responds to a listener question about puzzle sourcing, materials, and approach. Send your questions to Christine at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM or comment on a post on Facebook or Instagram at @edityourlifeshow. LINKS/RELATED EPISODES: Awesome Puzzles for Kids + Adults Cavallini bird puzzle Galison ombre eggs puzzle The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where hos...

Why is it important for your home to be a living, breathing reflection of you and your values? Christine chats with Shira Gill—a bestselling author, home organizing expert, and mom—about why a values-based frame for organizing and living is a crucial starting point, as well as common organizing pitfalls, living with kids, sustainable solutions, and more. RELATED EPISODES (for additional links, vis...

Christine shares her top minimalist packing tips. Send your questions to Christine at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM or comment on a post on Facebook or Instagram at @edityourlifeshow. LINKS: Substack: Minimalist packing tips Base carry-on options: A small duffel like this one or this lightweight roller luggage Madewell Transport Tote Coach wristlet gold Birkenstocks  Birdies flats Woosh Beauty...

How do you go against the tide of overscheduling or extracurricular expectations? In a conversation from the closed archive, Christine and Asha talk about the perception of extracurriculars as a responsibility not a choice, untangling personal baggage, level setting on what extracurriculars really mean, prioritizing family balance, and more. RELATED EPISODE (for additional resource links visit the...

Christine shares tips for being a good supporter on the sidelines of kids sporting events. Send your questions to Christine at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM or comment on a post on Facebook or Instagram at @edityourlifeshow. RELATED EPISODE: Editing Out Extracurricular Pressure The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where host Christine Koh answers your questions about everyt...

How do we best help kids navigate growing up in public, especially if parents and caregivers have overstepped on privacy issues? Christine talks with Devorah Heitner about best practices, mentorship, boundary setting, school portals, and more.  LINKS/RELATED EPISODES:  Devorah Heitner  Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Dig...

After a couple of months deep in the emotional and mental decluttering zone, Christine is ready to tackle her house chaos, with a refined lens on what she can (and cannot) control and a new decluttering target. RELATED EPISODES (for additional links, visit the show notes):  A New Beginning Embracing Micro Goals My Clothing Rental Experiment Questioning The KonMari Decluttering Method Guilt-Free De...

Christine shares her favorites from Trader Joe’s, with a lens towards quick meals and snacks since the fall is often chaotic. Send your questions to Christine at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM or comment on a post on Facebook or Instagram at @edityourlifeshow. LINKS/RELATED EPISODES: Mini Edit: How To Handle Food Allergies Food Reframes + Practical Tactics (with Stacie Billis) Weekend Food Prep...

How do you get things done when you are surrounded by a relentless run of household tasks? Christine and Sarah Powers talk about to-do lists, prioritizing, boundaries, side hustles and passion projects, outsourcing, energy patterns, juggling kids during summer and more. LINKS/RELATED EPISODES: Cultivating Hobbies + Interests Advocating For Your Needs At Work (with Leslie Forde) Compartmentalizing...

Christine shares about how she and her college freshman stayed connected through the challenging transition. Send your questions to Christine at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM or comment on a post on Facebook or Instagram at @edityourlifeshow. LINKS/RELATED EPISODES: Raising Teenagers (with Mary Dell Harrington) How To Be An Adult (with Julie Lythcott-Haims) College Application First Steps  Coll...

Recorded from an unprecedented week-long creative and restorative retreat with herself, Christine shares about a recent leap into uncertainty and what has happened as a result. LINKS/RELATED EPISODES: Mini Edit: Toxic Friendships Finding Adult Friendships + Community (with Melody Warnick) Christine’s Substack essays: Facing uncertainty? Finding a new gear Season of noticing Learn more about your a...

Christine shares tips on how to get kids in the school lunch making game. Send your questions to Christine at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM or comment on a post on Facebook or Instagram at @edityourlifeshow. LINKS/RELATED EPISODES: How to Teach Kids Life Skills How To Get Kids To Do Chores  Mini Edit: How To Handle Chores 110 easy and healthy school lunch ideas The Mini Edit is a short-form ser...

We all could use more joy in life. Christine chats with best-selling novelist Katherine Center about positive vs. negative valence theory, why prioritizing happiness and joy matters, amazing women writers, and more. LINKS/RELATED EPISODES (for additional links, see the show notes): Katherine Center and her full suite of books Mini Edit: Quick Mood Boost Ideas “Making a case for slow reading” Edit...

Christine answers the question, “What do you tell the kids about the afterlife, what happens after you die, etc.” Send your questions to Christine at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM or comment on a post on Facebook or Instagram at @edityourlifeshow. LINKS/RELATED EPISODES: Mini Edit: Beginning Sex Ed Conversations Dr. Robyn Silverman’s forthcoming book, How to Talk to Kids about Anything: Tips, S...

Christine answers the listener question, “What are your best quick mood boosts?” Send your questions to Christine at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM or comment on a post on Facebook or Instagram at @edityourlifeshow. RELATED EPISODES (for additional links, see show notes): The Power of Cognitive Reframing Managing Anxiety with Self-Awareness & Compassion (with Morra Aarons-Mele) Cultivating Hobbi...

Middle school isn’t always easy, but it’s also a time where kids can develop superpowers. Christine chats with licensed clinical professional counselor, author, and freelance journalist Phyllis Fagell about resilience, letting go of parental baggage, boundary setting, and more. RELATED EPISODES (for additional links, see the show notes): Untangling Overparenting (with Jessica Lahey) Simple + Compa...

Christine shares about the baking tools that make her life happier and easier. Send your questions to Christine at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM or comment on a post on Facebook or Instagram at @edityourlifeshow. RELATED EPISODES: Weekend Food Prep  Summer of Small Delights  Mini Edit: Gluten-Free Favorites  Cultivating Hobbies + Interests See additional product links at the show notes. The Min...

Figuring out how to step back in a culture of involvement is hard but doable. Christine chats with educator and author Jessica Lahey about letting go of control, how ignoring the grade portal actually encourages learning, how lovingly stepping back doesn’t have to feel like walking away, and more. RELATED EPISODES (for additional resource links, visit the show notes) Raising Teenagers (with Mary D...