Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

Through episodes with me, your host, Christine Coe, and a range of super smart, compassionate, and thoughtful guests,

you will come away with big picture insights and practical ways to declutter your home, schedule, and thoughtful guests, you will come away with big picture insights and

practical ways to declutter your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection.

I have always believed that small moments and actions matter tremendously. My goal is to help you

find agency and space in your life through doable baby steps that will leave you feeling accomplished

instead of overwhelmed.

Hello, friends.

If you have been listening for the past several months, I imagine you have picked up that I've

had a lot of stress going on outside of this show.

It's been really difficult, actually, for me to not be able to fully articulate

what is going on, since when it just comes to me, I am an open book. But there have been actual

reasons where I have not been able to disclose what is going on. The good news is, though,

that I've emerged from the fog, and I'm actually recording this

episode during an unprecedented move for me. I'm engaged in a week-long, creative and restorative

retreat with myself. It's the longest I've been away from my kids in about 11 years when I travel to Ethiopia for 10 days for a project.

And during this time, I'm just taking the opportunity to be quiet, to work on some creative things, to sink into the small moments of everyday life, to do a lot of weirdly satisfying manual labor, and to operate on my

own schedule in a way that I've never done before. So first, I'm really grateful to my family

for giving me the gift of their blessings and the logistical support to make this happen.

They really saw me at some serious lows this year,

and it feels really good to be on the other side of that.

In today's episode, I want to share some of my learnings

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