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Friendships are wonderful and necessary, and can be a source of stickiness and conflict. Christine details her historical issues around friendships, how she has grown over the years and what she still wrestles with, and shares 8 simple tactics to find moments of reconnection with friends.LINKS + RELATED EPISODES: Embracing Micro Goals How To Talk About Gender Identity (with Casey Brown) Navigating Big Feelings + Hard Conversations (with Katie Hurley, LCSW) Living with Intention (with Ali Edwards) Reviving & Rethinking Friendships Jane Fonda, on friendships Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo The results from a holiday session with Christine’s Sprinkles Scientist friend Kristen 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

We all need to heal, and healing can come through many forms of expression. Christine chats with former creative arts therapist and writer Kristen Mei Chase about different ways to work through logistical and emotional barriers, including the many ways in which writing her debut novel “A Thousand Miles to Graceland” helped her heal and find empathy for both herself and others. They talk about narrative busting on old patterns in relationships, becoming brave, Asian American representation, and more.LINKS + RELATED EPISODES: Kristen Mei Chase: website, Cool Mom Picks, Spawned with Kristen and Liz Kristen’s debut novel, “A Thousand Miles to Graceland” The Power of Creativity (with Rachel Koh) Finding Your Confidence + Voice (with Wendi Aarons) Embracing Micro Goals Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Sheri Gurock’s temperature blanket 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

Curiosity can be healing and it is important to disrupt the narrative that you are too busy, old, etc., to consider trying new things that could bring joy or fulfillment to your life, or returning to things that used to help you in different stages of life. In this episode, Christine talks to her mother, Rachel Koh, who has lived a bright life replete with curiosity.RELATED EPISODES: Self-Care For Stubborn People Birthday Reflections + Extraordinary Care 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

Setting high bars and aggressive goals can be paralyzing. Enter, micro goals. Christine talks about the power of focusing on the small things that may not be as sexy from a big goal setting perspective, but that are just as crucial to address to improve everyday quality of life. She walks through big picture concepts, some of the micro goals she is planning on tackling, and also shares an exciting announcement.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

What were your highs and lows of 2022? Christine reflects on the good, bad, and the ugly of 2022, and shares the top 11 Edit Your Life episodes of 2022 and things she has learned or carried forward from those episodes.Episodes mentioned: Parenting Milestones Self-Care for Stubborn People Lessons From Being A Covid Late Bloomer Time Management + Productivity [with guest Laura Vanderkam] Food Reframes + Practical Tactics [with guest Stacie Billis] Edit Your Life Top Episodes of 2022 Spotify Playlist #11 Living with Intention with Ali Edwards #10 Simple, Everyday Coping Tactics with Janine Halloran, LMHC #9 Storytelling, Uncertainty, & Optimism with Mary Laura Philpott #8 Raising Differently Wired Kids with Debbie Reber #7 Navigating Big Feelings and Hard Conversations with Katie Hurley, LMHC, PhD #6 Creating a Self-Directed Practice #5 Tiny Moments of Self-Love #4 Perfectly Imperfect Planning with Sarah Hart-Unger #3 Weathering Pandemic Stress & Uncertainty with Jonathan Baxter, LMHC #2 Weekend Food Prep #1 Sustainable Habits & Joyful Goals Other mentions: "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" by Gabrielle Zevin “True Biz” by Sara Novic February 3 Instagram post re: buffer time Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Whether or not you are part of Team OMG Finally Contracted Covid, we are still in this. Christine shares about her experience contracting Covid over Thanksgiving break, addresses the many questions she has received on social media since sharing about her positive test, and what she has learned from the experience.Resources mentioned in this episode Related episode: Smart & Simple Holiday Food Planning Christine's day to day sharing about Covid via Instagram Stories Gnome for the Holidays advent calendar The Morning Show (Apple TV) 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

Are you meh about your closet? Want to burn it all down? You’re not alone. Christine shares a listener query about her fashion and beauty practices, some back story about what clothing has meant to her—and how it has created anxiety—in the past, and the clothing rental experiment she has been conducting for the past couple of months in an effort to care for herself in a new way.Resources mentioned in this episode My first runway show My first time working with Doreen Dove she made me look like this! One of my Boden looks Use code CHRISTINEKRTR for 40% off your first two months of the 8, 12, or 16 item Rent The Runway membership! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Are you feeling overwhelmed by holiday food planning? Christine shares her mixed feelings about how to navigate holidays in a way that is loving and relationships-oriented while also low on run-around and stress. She revisits a conversation with Asha where they share 8 smart and simple holiday food planning tips.Resources mentioned in this episode Minimalist Parenting Christine’s Piesgiving 2021 Christine’s Piesgiving 2020 Cheesy monkey bread (Violet’s favorite) 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

How do we find our confidence and voice as we’re also doing things like raising kids, exploring careers, and navigating relationships? Wendi Aarons found bravery in humor. Christine and Wendi talk about Wendi’s new book, “I'm Wearing Tunics Now: On Growing Older, Better, and a Hell of a Lot Louder.” They discuss how Wendi found her voice and confidence, her favorite and least favorite things about the various decades, advice for moms, 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 Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Women get sh*t done, as the saying goes, and now more than ever we need women to step into the ring; the ring of voting. Christine talks with political strategist, podcaster, family policy advocate, and mom of three Emily Tisch Sussman about why we truly are in red alert mode, why women have enormous power in the election, empathy-based voting, 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 Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices