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

Christine and Asha talk about how they’re planning to preserve slow in relation to work travel, communication, kids’ activities, schedules, routines, and more. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection. Visit edityourlifeshow.com for show notes and to connect with host Chri...

Wouldn’t life just be better if we got real about and embraced the broken and awkward in our lives? Christine talks to Jenny Lawson about her path to becoming a bestselling author and her new book, Broken (in the best possible way). Jenny and Christine talk about the path that led to Broken, the power of embracing awkward, how healing is a moving target, parenting teenagers, finding comfort within...

Many of us are trying to wrap our heads around a shifting social landscape. More people? More normality? Maybe even less Zoom? Christine and Asha talk about how to revive and rethink friendships as we navigate safety concerns and potential social awkwardness. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without gettin...

The joke is, adulting is no joke. And it is, in fact, the case that there’s way more to adulting than the typical five markers of adulthood (finish education, get a job, leave home, marry, have kids). Christine talks to Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of the new book “Your Turn: How To Be An Adult,” about how to get beyond learning basic adulting skills to the power of wanting to be an adult and havi...

While COVID-19 vaccinations are top of mind right now, there’s another crucial vaccine parents of adolescents + young adults really need to know about: the vaccinations for meningococcal disease (a/k/a “meningitis”). In this bonus episode, Christine talks about why meningitis prevention matters with Dr. Len Friedland, a dad, pediatrician, and research scientist who serves as Vice President, Direct...

Online classes, emailed homework, interrupted friendships, cancelled activities—these are the hallmarks of the COVID school year. But as we acknowledge the losses, are there ways to uncover the successes? Christine and Asha talk about pandemic schooling. They discuss this school year in the context of growth, reframe the skills kids are gaining, and share some unexpected bright spots as spring app...

One of the big scarcities people feel is time; there never seems to be enough of it. Christine chats with time management and productivity expert Laura Vanderkam. Christine and Laura talk about how to reframe your perception of time, Laura’s favorite time management tactics, early morning productivity, and self-care. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for declut...

Books are magical. They can provide inspiration, escape, relief, and so much more. Christine and Asha talk about how reading is grounding them during these uncertain times, sources for book inspiration, and books that have captivated their attention. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged...

When academic metrics are so front and center in today’s culture, how do we raise a population of strong, healthy kids who are more than just grades on paper? Christine talks to Dr. Michele Borba about her new book, Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine. Christine and Michele talk about the cultural obsession with striving, the key character strengths that will h...

Right now, while everything continues to be so hard and our world is so limited, focusing on the small comforts can be incredibly powerful. Christine and Asha talk about the power of learning to perceive tinier bits of comfort and share the everyday things that are bringing them happiness and comfort these days. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for declutterin...

We get it; talking about race and privilege can be difficult. We’re here to help. Christine is joined by the incredible Amber Coleman-Mortley, whose “hugs and truth” approach to communication is basically what all of us need. Christine and Amber talk about approaching and understanding privilege and whiteness, framed around the actions of centering empathy, creating space for others, and learning...

We’ve entered a new calendar year, which means we’ve now been living COVID-constrained lives long enough to learn some new ways of doing things. Christine and Asha talk about small and large ways they have made better use of their physical space in the face of everyone being at home 24/7. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, a...

Everyone wanted a fresh start with 2021. But New Year’s optimism was quickly replaced by fear, uncertainty, and anger in the wake of domestic terrorism on January 6. Christine and Asha talk about how to take small, concrete steps to ground yourself and your family during a time that continues to leave us all feeling unmoored and out of control. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that share...

Well friends, we have a fun holiday surprise for you! We decided to close out this crazy year with something different; something that embraces imperfection, gives you a window into our silly sides, and hopefully gives you a laugh as we close out this tumultuous year. Welcome to our first (and hopefully not last) Edit Your Life blooper reel! Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares p...

We’re just a couple of weeks out from the end of 2020, a time when many people are likely thinking, FINALLY, THIS YEAR IS ALMOST OVER. In the last official episode of 2020, Christine and Asha reflect on this year of many feelings. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection....

We have landed at the mother of all holiday months; a time that people typically gather in churches, synagogues, homes, or somewhere else. Christine and Asha talk about what they learned from their Thanksgiving experiences, and how to navigate holiday grief and joy, including what they’re embracing and leaning into this holiday season. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practic...

Post-election, Christine and Asha both feel like they have more bandwidth for entertainment and learning. In this episode they share what they’re reading, watching, and experimenting with creatively and educationally. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection. Visit edityou...

The last couple of months have been especially intense (#understatement). Christine and Asha offer a look behind the curtain of how things went down for them around the election. They talk about Election Day (which looked very different for each of them), the emotional roller coaster that followed, where they were when the election was called, and where their heads are at now, looking forward. Edi...

There are so many things that can get in the way of self-care, and the times when tending to our physical and emotional wellbeing feels impossible is often when we need it the most. Christine and Asha talk about why self-care is so hard, how to make it happen, accountability challenges, and ideas for self-care in different forms. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ide...

Halloween signals the first of the fall/winter holidays that we’re navigating for the first time amidst a global pandemic. There’s a palpable sense of loss for many families, yet it’s also possible to have a fun, silly holiday while prioritizing safety. Christine and Asha share their thoughts on celebrating Halloween during COVID-19 and maintaining touchpoints with holiday normalcy in a safe, simp...

Distance learning is no joke, and everyone’s experiences are so different depending upon where you live, available tech resources, and your employment situation. What used to be a more common experience is no longer like that. Christine and Asha talk about how distance learning is going in their households and share tips for how to tune into the small and large details that will help make distance...

One thing that has not changed through the pandemic is that we’re still eating. And prepping a lot. And tweaking systems. And feeling tired about cooking. While also needing to, you know, keep eating. The need to both simplify meals AND encourage food independence among family members has never been greater. Christine and Asha talk about creating + tweaking systems, their hits and misses with outd...

Wow, the world is A LOT right now. Joan Baez famously said, “Action is the antidote to despair,” yet the space in between—that moment between despair and action—can sometimes feel so big. Christine and Asha talk about the importance of being quiet amidst hard times, and how to take really small steps to move from a space of despair to one of action. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that...

Being vulnerable and sharing yourself can be difficult, whether in person or on social media. Christine talks with Laura Tremaine (host of the podcast 10 Things To Tell You and author of the forthcoming book Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. 10 Questions to Take Your Friendships to the Next Level) about sharing as an antidote to loneliness, the challenges women face sharing, how to handle critics,...

Well hello there fall...and Asha is back from her summer sabbatical! Christine and Asha check in about their summers then share updates about back-to-school season, family, work, election activism, how they’re coping during the pandemic, and where they are finding fun in life. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental sp...