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

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.

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

And we help you take action with doable baby steps that will leave you feeling accomplished

instead of overwhelmed. Oh, well, hello, Asha.

Hi, my friend. Oh, it's good to hear your voice. I wish I could give you a big hug.

And I will just jump right in and say that, to say that things are painful and difficult right now,

I think there aren't words that really fully express or capture that. And I'm even feeling like the word understatement feels like an understatement right now.

I agree. Yeah, it's crazy. And as you know, I was in a very dark place a couple of weeks ago.

I think all of us are on a continual emotional roller coaster. You know, even before we started

recording, you mentioned that our last

episode was about frugal edits. And at that point, all we needed to worry about was a global

pandemic. I mean, it's just insane. So I'm really glad we're going to dig in and talk about this.

It's a, it's just an enormously challenging time on so many different levels.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I'm glad too. I feel like really there's, you know, what else could we

possibly talk about right now? Because in some ways, and I described it this way, this is how I feel.

It, it feels like we're in the midst of a storm, which is inside another storm. And it is just, I feel, it feels like we're in the midst of a storm, which is inside another storm.

And it is just, I mean, no matter what kind of historical comparisons we can make,

we have very few, if any, frames of reference, you know, for anything like this that has

happened in our lifetimes, and it's disorienting and it's frightening and it's,

you know, it's maddening. I mean, to just say that out loud actually helps because this

disorienting feeling is really something. And just being able to talk to you, a person I know

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