

Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space
Christine Koh
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).
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Nov 9, 2023 • 31min
Tips for Simplifying Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving feels like it ought to be simple—gratitude, togetherness, food—but it gets complicated. In this throwback episode, Christine and Asha share 8 tips for simplifying Thanksgiving oriented NOT around getting mega efficient to do more in less time, but to figure out how to edit and do less. LINKS/RELATED EPISODES:
Pursuing A Life of Good Work (with Danielle Coke Balfour)
Smart + Simple Holiday Food Planning
Finding Your Fringe Hours (with Jessica Turner)
Why Holiday Delegation is Awesome
10 Simple Yet Chic Holiday Table Tips
Struggle Care 63: Gratitude in the Hard Seasons, Part 1 with Christine Koh
Gratitude in the Hard Seasons, Part 2 (with KC Davis, LPC)
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 Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nov 6, 2023 • 8min
Mini Edit: Favorite Foods to Prep & Freeze
Christine shares about her favorite foods to prep and freeze. 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 visit the show notes):
A New Beginning
Mini Edit: Trader Joe’s Quick Meal + Snack Favorites
Mini Edit: The Magic of Kitchen Batch Prepping
Weekend Food Prep
Food Reframes + Practical Tactics (with Stacie Billis)
Back-To-School Food Tactics (with Laura Fuentes)
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 edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nov 2, 2023 • 52min
Preparing For The Empty Nest (with Meagan Francis)
The empty nest can feel like it comes on suddenly, despite the fact that it takes many years. Christine chats with Meagan Francis about supporting kids who are at home and out of the nest, as well as how to orient towards your anticipated empty nest with intention.RELATED EPISODES (for additional links, see the show notes):
Empty Nest Report
Cultivating Hobbies + Interests
Mini Edit: Easing College Transitions
Finding Adult Friendships + Community (with Melody Warnick)
Simple Friendship Reboot Tactics
Pursuing A Life of Good Work (with Danielle Coke Balfour)
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 Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 30, 2023 • 8min
Mini Edit: October Micro Delights
Christine shares five micro delights from October. 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 visit the show notes):
Embracing Micro Goals
Tiny Moments of Self-Love
Elevating Small Comforts
Small Yet Powerful Home Edits
Summer of Small Delights
Mini Edit: Puzzle Tips & Recommendations
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 edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 26, 2023 • 42min
How To Help Teens Thrive (with Dr. Ken Ginsburg)
How do we best support teens in their development? Christine talks to Dr. Ken Ginsburg about flipping the script on raising teens, supporting teens in using their voices, how to truly listen to kids, helping kids harness idealism, developing resilience, and more.RELATED EPISODES (for additional links visit the show notes):
College Application Reality Check
Growing Up In Public (with Devorah Heitner, PhD)
Raising Middle Schoolers (with Phyllis Fagell, LCPC)
Untangling Overparenting (with Jessica Lahey)
Raising Teenagers (with Mary Dell Harrington)
Simple + Compassionate Parenting Tactics (with Dr. Tina Payne Bryson)
Raising Functional + Kind Kids (with Catherine Newman)
How To Raise Kids To Be Thrivers (with Dr. Michele Borba)
How To Talk To Kids About Anything (with Robyn Silverman, PhD)
How To Improve Communication with Kids (with Ned Johnson)
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 Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 23, 2023 • 8min
Mini Edit: Taming Reusable Container Clutter
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 questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home and more. Send your Mini Edit questions to edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 19, 2023 • 41min
Pursuing A Life of Good Work (with Danielle Coke Balfour)
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: 100 Meditations on Loving Your Neighbors Well
Cultivating Hobbies + Interests
Identifying Your Values
Finding Adult Friendships + Community (with Melody Warnick)
Modeling Imperfection
Living with Intention (with Ali Edwards)
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 Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 16, 2023 • 8min
Mini Edit: The Magic of Kitchen Batch Prepping
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 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 edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 9, 2023 • 9min
Mini Edit: My 13-Week Calendar System
In this podcast, the host discusses the benefits and challenges of using a poster board calendar system. They delve into the process of creating a 13-week calendar system, highlighting its layout, dimensions, and the advantages it offers. The podcast also explores the benefits of this system, such as improved organization and easy visibility of events.

Oct 5, 2023 • 39min
How To Talk To Kids About Anything (with Robyn Silverman, PhD)
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, Scripts, Stories, and Steps to Make Even the Toughest Conversations Easier
Mini Edit: Talking To Kids About Death + Afterlife
Identifying Your Values
Mini Edit: Beginning Sex Ed Conversations
Navigating Big Feelings + Hard Conversations (with Katie Hurley, LCSW)
Helping Kids Handle Disappointment
Letting Kids Experience Risk
Supporting Kids Through Continued Uncertainty & Stress (with Dr. Lisa Damour)
Boston Globe Magazine: My parents bought our family burial plots years ago. But my plans might change.
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 Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices