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 believe that baby steps are the key to getting there.

Good morning, Christine. Hi, Asha. How are you? I mean, you know. Happy New Year, my dear.

You too. You too. So I'm saying Happy New Year, my dear. You too. You too.

So I'm saying Happy New Year because this is our first episode of 2021.

And while this is the topic that we had planned to discuss, this is not the volatile environment in which we expected to discuss it. So just to give you folks some context,

we're recording this episode on a Sunday, but last week on Wednesday, January 6th,

2021, a mob incited by President Trump, attacked the U.S. Capitol with the intent of disrupting the electoral college vote,

count formalizing Joe Biden's presidential election victory. And security was breached,

the building was ransacked, and five people died, were killed. I mean, anyway, it was a frightening, unstable moment to say the least,

already frightening because we're in the midst of a pandemic, which continues to worsen. And we felt,

given the changing circumstances, we felt like it was important to have this conversation

about easing into 2021 because small concrete steps will help ground us and our families while we walk through this unfamiliar, scary territory.

Yeah.

You know, I am glad, you know, it was funny because, you know, we normally, just to give listeners a little context, we normally record on a Thursday, like a week before release. And all of this happened on Wednesday, as you said. And, you know, you and I were just texting and just completely, I mean, I would say it a loss for words, but not really a loss for words, but definitely a lot of words that we wouldn't say on the air.

So, anyway, yeah. So we are recording at a time when, you know, honestly, I said to you just before we started that I'm feeling, I'm feeling raw. I'm feeling exhausted. Like I literally, it's Sunday. So, you know,

it's morning here. It's very early morning on your side. I probably slept for nine hours and I still

feel exhausted. You know, it's just there's, there's so much that people are caring right now.

And I think that's why this conversation is more important than ever.

And I've certainly been talking a ton to people with people on Instagram.

For some reason, that's where people really like to talk with me.

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