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

Mini Edit: 4 Books About Family Dynamics

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

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Christine shares her thoughts on 4 books about family dynamics. The Mini Edit is a short-form series from Edit Your Life, where host Christine Koh answers your questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home and more. Send your Mini Edit questions to edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Subscribe to Christine’s personal newsletter at Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We all love a good meal, but there's no feeling quite like cooking one,

0:04.0

whether it's everyone at yours for a Sunday roast, or after-school sausage and mash.

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Quick, simple, gone in minutes.

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One thing brings it all together.

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Ah, Bisto, the original gravy.

0:20.0

Rich, smooth, and unmistakable since 1908.

0:25.3

When the gravy makes the dish, make the gravy.

0:28.6

Ah, Bisto.

0:34.1

Hello, friends, and welcome to the mini-eddit from Edit Your Life.

0:37.8

In these snack-sized mini-episodes, I answer your questions about everything from self-care

0:42.4

to parenting, to relationships, to home, and more.

0:45.8

Think of me like that friend you text or call when you need a quick piece of compassionate

0:50.0

and candid advice.

0:51.5

Send me your questions.

0:53.5

Hello, friends, I am delighted to share another book

0:57.2

Roundup for you. And today, the general theme is family dynamics, sometimes blended families,

1:04.1

complicated families, and I have four picks for you. The first pick is We All Live Here by Jojo Moise. Though I can't recall

1:14.2

Moise's full catalog off the top of my head, I have read a lot, possibly all of her books.

1:20.3

And as I recall, for example, with me before you as a major anchor, her stories typically

1:25.7

center heavily on a central love story.

1:28.9

To me, we all live here felt very different because it was a multi-generational story.

1:33.7

The plot is anchored around a family that includes a woman named Lila, whose husband

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