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

Are you struggling to navigate career and life transitions? Based on the volume of requests for this topic in Christine’s mailbag, you are not alone. Christine chats with certified positive psychology coach Ann Imig about the overthinking trap, identifying your strengths, and navigating transitions across a variety of work and life situations. 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. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe on Substack to the Edit Your Life newsletter and Christine’s personal newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Christine shares about her obsession with glass jar decanting, which feeds the useful practices of recycling and minimizing plastics. She shares jar sourcing and prep tips, as well as five of her most common items to decant. 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, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe to the Edit Your Life newsletter and Christine’s personal newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Even if you enjoy cooking, dinnertime can feel like a slog, especially at certain times of the year. Christine brings back 9 easy dinner ideas from a back catalog episode, and adds 5 new encore ideas. 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. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe on Substack to the Edit Your Life newsletter and Christine’s personal newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Christine shares 5 delightful things from October. 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, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe to the Edit Your Life newsletter and Christine’s personal newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Struggling to put your interests and curiosity at the center? Christine chats with Karen Walrond about why it is important to embrace amateurism without the expectations of productivity or money, getting past roadblocks such as guilt and a capitalist mindset, the connection between values and being intentional about amateurism, and more. 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. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe on Substack to the Edit Your Life newsletter and Christine’s personal newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amidst reflection around her birthday, Christine shares four things she is cultivating this year. 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, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe to the Edit Your Life newsletter and Christine’s personal newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Christine shares about three dramatic stories (that she couldn’t put down!) based on real people. 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, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe to the Edit Your Life newsletter and Christine’s personal newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The collective exhaustion and stress is no joke. In this episode brought out from the locked archive, Christine and Asha share eight immediate tactics to help break the immediate cycle of stress. 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. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe on Substack to the Edit Your Life newsletter and Christine’s personal newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Christine shares about 5 unexpected discoveries in making photo books for her kids for the first time. 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, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe to the Edit Your Life newsletter and Christine’s personal newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The toddler years don’t have the best reputation, and it’s time to reframe the narrative. Christine talks with Devon Kuntzman about using positive, effective, and developmentally appropriate tools to nurture development and foster connection with kids. Devon and Christine talk about how to navigate the adult baggage that inherently informs our parenting, reframing expectations, discipline, and more. This episode is anchored in toddlerhood but so many of the lessons extend through the longer parenting runway. 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. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe on Substack to the Edit Your Life newsletter and Christine’s personal newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Christine shares 5 delightful things from September. 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, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe to the Edit Your Life newsletter and Christine’s personal newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fall can be an incredibly stressful time of year for high school seniors if they are considering college as a future path. Christine shares eight tips from her original 2022 college application reality check episode, preceded by encore notes in the form of four pieces of advice that have resonated both in the college and post-graduate application processes for her daughter Laurel (now a college senior). 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. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe on Substack to the Edit Your Life newsletter and Christine’s personal newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Christine shares 10 tactics that help with establishing boundaries, tackling small goals, and engaging in loving touchpoints amidst re-entry. Visit the show notes for resources. 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, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe to the Edit Your Life newsletter and Christine’s personal newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do you feel crappy before getting your period? Christine chats with Dr. Sarah Hill about the biological explanation for feeling depleted in the second half of the menstrual cycle, how our cycle impacts everything from nutrition to exercise to relationships to sex, and practical tips for how to best care for yourself and support your body across the cycle. 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. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Subscribe to Christine’s personal newsletter at Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Christine shares lessons learned in the nearly 20 years since leaving academia to forge a creative career. 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. Subscribe to Christine’s personal newsletter at Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do you have a kid who is intensely passionate about an activity? Are you struggling with the demands and expectations as a result? In this episode brought out from the locked archive, Christine and Asha share 9 recommendations for how to balance supporting, and sometimes questioning, when it comes to passionate kids. They also share a level setting, compassionate perspective in the—totally normal—instance that your kid hasn’t found their passion. 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. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Subscribe to Christine’s personal newsletter at Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Christine shares about the life changing magic of bulk and batch prepping, including six examples from her kitchen. 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. Subscribe to Christine’s personal newsletter at Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wondering how to live small (or smaller) in a consumer world? Christine chats with Laura Fenton, author of “The Little Book of Living Small.” They talk about becoming mindful about and making the most of what you have, as well as how to minimize consumption and edit habits that can feel deeply ingrained and hard to change. 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. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Subscribe to Christine’s personal newsletter at Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s a new school year, and with that can come pressure. In this episode brought out from the locked archive, Christine and Asha share about the challenges we bring in our own histories, as well as the very real struggle between encouraging our kids and not micro-managing. They follow to share seven recommendations for navigating the challenging school achievement pressure waters. 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. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Subscribe to Christine’s personal newsletter at Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Christine shares 5 delightful things from August. 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. Subscribe to Christine’s personal newsletter at Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices