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. If you have not yet listened to episode 273, living with intention with Ali Edwards,

I can't encourage enough for you to go back and listen to that episode before proceeding

with this one.

Or I suppose you can do whatever you want and you can listen to this one and then go back.

But the reason it feels a little cool and wild to record this episode was because during that interview with Allie,

who was just 100% delightful, she mentioned the phrase intentional pauses.

And when she said that, I had to stop and look at my notes because I had already titled

this episode as such. It was just kind of wild

and I don't know, just felt very meant to be. Anyway, I wanted to talk about intentional pauses

in the context of a sort of awkward, difficult wrestling with self experienceexperience I had.

And then I want to share some thoughts on why I think intentional pauses can benefit

different experiences, no matter what your situation is, and especially if you're stuck

on something.

So here's what happened with me.

It centers around my major media writing, which if you've been following along on this show,

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