

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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Apr 10, 2023 • 8min
Mini Edit: Gluten-Free Favorites
Christine answers the question, “Can you share ideas for gluten-free mealtime options?”LINKS/RELATED EPISODES:
Weekend Food Prep
Winter Comfort Foods & Beverages (includes links to lentil + chicken and wild rice soup recipes)
Shalane Flanagan superhero muffins
Christine’s green smoothies
Martha Stewart salmon cakes
Purple Carrot energy bites
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

Apr 6, 2023 • 26min
The Power of Cognitive Reframing
Shifting your perspective is powerful. Inspired by a listener’s letter about the power of pivoting, Christine shares about her journey with cognitive reframing, including three tactics she uses to guide her practice.LINKS + RELATED EPISODES:
Identifying Your Values
Letting Go of the Hero Role
What Is Cognitive Reframing? (Verywell Mind)
Managing Anxiety with Self-Awareness & Compassion (with Morra Aarons-Mele)
Simple + Compassionate Parenting Tactics (with Dr. Tina Payne Bryson)
Weekend Food Prep
Simple Friendship Reboot Tactics
Tiny Moments of Self-Love
Mini Edit: Toxic Friendships
Making Time for What Matters
Christine’s Substack (a paid subscription gives access to her mantras series)
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

Apr 3, 2023 • 8min
Mini Edit: How To Handle Chores
Christine answers the question, “How do you handle chores?”LINKS/RELATED EPISODES:
How To Get Kids To Do Chores
How to Teach Kids Life Skills
100 Life Skills You Can Teach Your Kid in 5 Minutes or Less (printable PDF)
Modeling Imperfection
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

Mar 30, 2023 • 33min
Letting Go of the Hero Role
We all need reminders that we don’t need to do it all. Inspired by a listener's voice memo about the power of creating intentional pauses in life and letting go of feeling the need to keep all the plates spinning, Christine shares an archived episode about the power of letting go of the hero role. LINKS + RELATED EPISODES:
Identifying Your Values
Intentional Pauses
How To Get Kids To Do Chores
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

Mar 27, 2023 • 8min
Mini Edit: Toxic Friendships
Christine answers the question, “How do you move on from a toxic friendship?”LINKS/RELATED EPISODES:
Reviving & Rethinking Friendships
Simple Friendship Reboot Tactics
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

Mar 23, 2023 • 22min
Identifying Your Values
This podcast explores the importance of identifying your values to simplify and declutter your life. They discuss their own key values and how they relate to creating a life that feels true to you. Topics also include finding balance as a parent, embracing baby steps, and the benefits of small steps and decluttering.

Mar 20, 2023 • 8min
Mini Edit: DIY Fire Starters
Christine answers the question, “How do you make homemade fire starters?”LINKS/RELATED EPISODES:
100% cotton makeup pads
Soy wax
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

Mar 16, 2023 • 37min
Managing Anxiety with Self-Awareness & Compassion (with Morra Aarons-Mele)
How do you find traction and move forward in the face of anxiety? Christine chats with award-winning speaker, author (including the new book, “The Anxious Achiever”), podcaster, and entrepreneur Morra Aarons-Mele about anxiety management tactics, toxic bosses, authenticity of feelings at work, boundary setting, and more.LINKS + RELATED EPISODES:
Morra Aarons-Mele: website | Books: Hiding in the Bathroom + The Anxious Achiever
Are Women Punished For Being Emotional At Work? (The Anxious Achiever podcast)
Digging Deeper on Perfectionism (The Anxious Achiever podcast)
Modeling Imperfection
Making Time for What Matters (with Laura Vanderkam)
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

Mar 13, 2023 • 10min
Mini Edit: Beginning Sex Ed Conversations
Christine answers the question, “What are the first sex ed conversations I should have with my kid?”LINKS/RELATED EPISODES:
Simple + Compassionate Parenting Tactics (with Dr. Tina Payne Bryson)
Advocates for Youth
AMAZE.org
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

Mar 9, 2023 • 28min
Favorite Things Right Now
Christine shares about her current favorite things spanning home, entertainment, work, beauty, and apparel. She also talks about a new short-form Edit Your Life series: the Mini Edit! Send your Mini Edit questions to edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh.LINKS + RELATED EPISODES:
Christine’s Substack newsletter, including Making a case for slow reading and Is the second-semester ache a thing?
Embracing Micro Goals
My Clothing Rental Experiment + Rent The Runway; use code CHRISTINEKRTR for 40% off
Navigating Divorce + Single Parenting (with Jessica Ashley)
Thriving In Midlife (with Lizzie Bermudez)
See this episode's show notes for the remaining links to things discussed during this episode
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