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

Embracing The Broken & Awkward (with Jenny Lawson)

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

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Wouldn’t life just be better if we got real about and embraced the broken and awkward in our lives? Christine talks to Jenny Lawson about her path to becoming a bestselling author and her new book, Broken (in the best possible way). Jenny and Christine talk about the path that led to Broken, the power of embracing awkward, how healing is a moving target, parenting teenagers, finding comfort within yourself, 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Edit Your Life podcast. I'm Christine Co.

0:09.7

And I'm Asha Dornfest, and we're here to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

0:16.6

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

0:22.4

And we believe that baby steps are the key to getting there.

0:26.7

Hello, edit your life listeners.

0:28.5

I am just beyond excited because it's Christine here.

0:32.5

And I am on the line with the amazing, wonderful Jenny Lawson.

0:37.4

Hi, Jenny. Hello. Oh my gosh. I am so excited

0:42.4

talking to you. And I have to say, so I'm in my car right now because it's the only quiet place

0:48.5

in my house. And the way that I'm leaning up against the car seats makes this sort of squishy sound.

0:55.5

And I'm like, I just want to say right up front, this, I'm not farting.

0:59.4

There's this noise that you might hear that's getting picked up.

1:03.0

And I swear to you, it is, well, maybe it is.

1:07.2

You might be.

1:08.2

I mean, who knows?

1:09.4

Additionally, I might be later on. But right now, that noise is just my car seats. Indeed. Well, you know, before we got officially on the line, I was saying that I was envisioning and hoping that you were surrounded by animals of all stripes, some moving, some not. I can only imagine. I did see your video of you opening your book boxes. And so I just, I, you know, this are getting on the line, actually. I had had it in my mind for a little while. I'm giving you sort of insider track and giving our listeners insider track. And I wanted to invite you and I was planning on it. And I was like, oh, she's going to be way too busy.

1:49.7

And then you had left a, just a delightful comment saying something about how like listening to one of our episodes felt very therapeutic.

1:51.8

And I was like, oh, good.

1:53.2

Then, you know, this won't be like a weird, scary thing.

1:55.7

It'll be fun.

1:57.5

Yes, yes.

1:58.7

I have, I've actually said no to, I don't even know how many podcasts, but with with y'alls,

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