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.

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This episode on Everyday Stress Management originally released October 2018

and has been in the locked archive since I did the massive audio overhaul a couple of years

ago. And I wanted to bring it back for two reasons. First, the tips are per usual

evergreen. And second, the tenor of the intro and the collective exhaustion and stress is,

well, very similar to today. Everyone is understandably very stressed and my feeling is that

the more we can lean into doable coping

tactics, the better. These eight tips that Asha and I share are immediate, not long-term,

little actions to help break that immediate cycle of stress. And Asha makes an important note up

top about the importance of seeking help if you are dealing with

bigger issues beyond the immediate. Please, please take that advice to heart. And speaking of that,

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