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Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Living with Authenticity + Compassion (with Rebecca Woolf)

Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Giving another person the safety to express themselves limitlessly and honestly is a gift. Christine chats with writer and mom of four Rebecca Woolf about her compelling memoir, “All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire.” Christine and Rebecca talk about the power of honesty, the ability to love and loathe with compassion, the interplay between authenticity and shame, and more. LINKS + RELATED EPISODES: Rebecca Woolf: website, memoir All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire, Substack: the braid Healing Through Expression (with Kristen Mei Chase) Finding Your Confidence + Voice (with Wendi Aarons) Living with Intention (with Ali Edwards) Embracing Vulnerability + Power In Sharing (with Laura Tremaine) Reframing the Abortion Narrative (with Gabrielle Blair) Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection. Visit edityourlifeshow.com for show notes and to connect with host Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There once was a woman who lived in a shoe. A size too snug, but what could she do?

0:05.9

But that's not where her story ends. Thanks to a little help from her Experian friends,

0:10.9

she got her score into much better shape and relocated to a box fresh new place, with room to grow

0:16.9

and a mortgage to suit. Now, she lives in a spacious four-bedroom cowboy boots.

0:23.3

Better your Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready. Experian, better your score,

0:28.7

better your story.

0:36.4

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.

0:43.6

Through episodes with me, your host, Christine Coe, and a range of super smart, compassionate, and thoughtful guests,

0:49.8

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.

0:58.0

I have always believed that small moments and actions matter tremendously.

1:02.0

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.

1:18.9

Hello, friends. I am so thrilled to bring you an incredible guest. One of the most authentic and beautiful people I know, Rebecca Wolf. Hi, Rebecca. Hi, Christine. Thank you for having me.

1:24.5

I am so excited to talk to you, and it actually has been so long

1:29.1

since we have exchanged auditory utterances that this is a joy. And I just want to share a little bit

1:38.0

of brief background with our listeners here about you. You are what I call a writer for life. You started freelance writing at

1:46.4

age 16. You were a true pioneer in the parent blogging space with your blog,

1:52.2

Girl's Gone Child. It's still up. I did check yesterday. And not just in developing a new way of

1:59.1

communicating authentically about the ups and downs of parenting,

2:03.4

but also it was no small deal that you were among the first to attract sponsors and make a living

2:10.6

at it. It was really quite amazing to watch it all unfold. You're a mom of four, one son and

2:16.4

three daughters, including twins. And our conversation today

2:20.1

is grounded in your truly stunning memoir, all of this, a memoir of death and desire. So again,

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