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 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.

I am back, and it is so nice to be here after a three-week end of summer break.

And I thought that given the seasonal break and in the tradition of edit your life seasons

in past years, I thought it would be fun to do a little fall check-in.

And of course, I wanted to start with a brief reflection on summer because I don't know,

I just feel like context so important because it's framing up what I'm thinking about for

fall.

So just a couple of top-level things I wanted to share.

First, I will just start out and say that I was terrible about planning actual summer break.

In past years, I've taken a week off in each July and August, but due to some logistical things with my life working as a contractor,

I just didn't feel like I could do it this summer. And that is for sure something I want to

address next year. I mean, the summer, it was fine, but I think I could have used some actual

delineated break. And actually, I'm thinking, and I'll talk more

about this in a second, but I think that now that my older daughter Laurel is off at college,

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