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 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 have been wanting to bring an amazing episode with therapist Kristen Howerton out from

the archives, and I recently accelerated this on my cue list thanks to a listener request. This listener wrote in asking about

how to handle going to an event that is important to you, but emotionally challenging.

In this case, it is not only a graduate school graduation, so definitely a big deal, but the event

will involve travel and a number of events that also involve

the listener's X, which they described as, quote, very painful and difficult. Being around

them is really disregulating for me. I'm grateful to this listener for reaching out and trusting me

with their story and this request. They asked for practical tips for getting through emotionally complicated situations,

and I think this conversation with Kristen is just jam-packed with incredible advice.

Kristen Howerton is a licensed therapist who I met through the blogging world.

She has a successful blog, book, and podcast under her belt, and is at present back in

private practice.

In the original episode, Kristen joins me as a guest co-host, meaning that we follow the

same back-and-forth storytelling and tips format that Asha Dornfest and I used to do.

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