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

Anchoring Into Real Life (with Sarah Powers)

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

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Are you looking for inspiration to reduce your digital connections in favor of IRL ones? Christine talks with Sarah Powers about her digital disconnection journey and how she is intentionally anchoring into real life and her immediate community. 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

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0:00.0

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.

0:12.3

Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency and space to simplify

0:21.8

and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.

0:26.7

Hello, friends. I am very excited to bring you this conversation with one of my very favorite

0:32.5

people on the internet and in real life, as in I have been known to squeal loudly when I see Sarah Powers.

0:41.1

If you are a parent who loves podcasts, you probably know Sarah from the mom hour, which, after

0:46.2

10 amazing years, has recently retired, though you can still hear their healthy back catalog

0:52.1

wherever you get your shows.

0:59.2

Sarah also writes the beautiful substack, Home Again, which I will link in the show notes.

1:04.4

The reason I wanted to bring Sarah back on the mic, you can also hear her in the episode Work from Home Productivity Tips, is that she has been anchoring into real life with deep

1:10.3

intention,

1:11.5

which has meant pulling back on social media in a big way

1:14.5

while also really looking at her immediate community with fresh eyes.

1:19.1

In this conversation, Sarah and I talk about her digital disconnection journey,

1:23.7

as well as how she is intentionally plugging into her community.

1:27.2

Let's get right to it.

1:29.9

Hello, Sarah Powers. I have a lot of feelings seeing your face on my screen. I know our listeners

1:36.4

won't be able to see your face, but they'll just have to feel the vibe for me right now. So,

1:41.3

hello and welcome. Hello. I'm smiling like that kind of smile where it almost

1:45.3

hurts your face. Yes. I'm so happy to see you and to be with you. Yes. I may or may not have said in the

1:52.1

intro that you are one of my favorite people in the on the internet and in real life. So much so that I

1:58.7

think I have been known to squeal when I see you in person.

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