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

Mini Edit: Establishing Caring Holiday Boundaries

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

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Inspired by a listener email, Christine shares four ways to edit your holiday gatherings and establish boundaries with care. 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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0:34.3

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.

0:53.5

I originally published what I'm sharing today as an Edit Your Life substack post,

0:58.6

and I wanted to share it here because of the public and private feedback I received.

1:03.7

Clearly, people struggle with holiday boundaries, which is totally normal.

1:08.7

I recently reviewed a slew of listener feedback and topic requests and came across

1:13.5

this message. The best tip I've gotten from your show is your tip that rather than huge family

1:19.2

gatherings at holidays meet up with individual family members and catch up one-on-one.

1:24.8

I have a lot of complicated relationships in my family, and I've dreaded the holidays

1:29.3

for as long as I can remember. This tip allows me to connect and relate to my family without the

1:35.4

dread and anxiety. Thank you so much for the suggestion. It was deeply heartening to read that this

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