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

Hello, friends, I have a special treat for you today. Though I closed last year with a trio of

wonderful holiday episodes with Asha Doranfest, my former co-host here, from the Locked Archives,

you haven't heard Asha live on the mic since June 16th,

2002, when we did a check-in following her retirement from the show at the end of 2021.

Asha has had a whole lot of living going on, and when I proposed today's conversation,

she was like, yeah, I think I have a lot to say about

all that. In broad strokes, I wanted to talk to Asha about the journey of centering oneself

after years of pouring out energy in the care and support of others. Why? Because the challenge of

focusing on yourself, whether it's care for yourself, pursuing hobbies, work goals, what have you, is an ongoing struggle for pretty much everyone I talk to. And it is an issue that becomes even more complicated if you are in a position where you are actively parenting

and supporting aging parents or other relatives. I actually have a number of sandwich

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