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

Mini Edit: Disrupting the Holiday “Shoulds”

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

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Christine shares four favorite tactics to help spur your thinking about what steps you can take to create a holiday season that feels true to your values and wishes, versus operating from a place of guilt or resentment.  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, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe to the Edit Your Life newsletter and Christine’s personal newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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.

0:51.6

Send me your questions.

0:53.8

Friends, we have officially entered what for many

0:56.5

is a complicated time of year, the holiday season. You know the drill. It's a time when we want to be

1:02.8

grateful, joyful, and pure of heart, and it can be a time of overwhelm, aggravation, and or

1:09.1

deep sadness. And that's normal. Humans are complex mammals.

1:13.7

We each bring an array of cards to the table. And then when you multiply those cards times

1:18.8

other people's cards, friction is inevitable somewhere. That said, one of my goals as an adult

1:25.8

is to reduce holiday friction and the only arena in which I can exercise any control as it relates to my own experience is letting go of the shoulds.

1:35.7

Why? Because when we do things out of obligation, guilt, resentment, or any number of other reasons, other than actually wanting to do the thing for pure or values

1:45.7

aligned reasons, discontent is imminent. Before I go further, I want to address some nuance around

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