How to Handle Heated Conversations

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Struggling to stay grounded and civil? In this conversation brought forward from the locked archive, Christine and Asha share 8 tactics to handle heated conversations that are anchored in respectful communication, setting boundaries, and more. For further resources visit the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe on Substack to the Edit Your Life newsletter and Christine’s personal newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.6	Raising Chelsea, a Hulu original series streaming April 2nd exclusively on Disney Plus.
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0:35.3	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.
0:42.4	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.
0:56.8	Hello, friends. I am very pleased to bring you this conversation from the Locked Archive.
1:03.1	This episode is from February 2017, recorded after the massive women's march on January 21, 2017.
1:12.8	Emotions were high, and listen, we are now nearly a decade later, and it's hard to believe
1:18.3	that things feel worse, but they actually do. So I thought it would be a good time to elevate
1:23.9	this conversation because there are evergreen tips that could meet you in this moment.
1:29.2	It's worth noting that Asha and I have both pulled back a lot on social media since this episode
1:34.1	aired, and at that time, I was deeply steeped in social media, especially Facebook, which I'm no longer
1:39.6	on. But these heated exchanges still happen in real life or other platforms or texts or emails.
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