Navigating Holiday Grief + Joy [Reprise!]

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

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Holidays can be complicated. This reprised episode from 2020 captures a holiday season like no other, but the threads of trying to muddle through and find light amidst dark times persist. Christine opens by reflecting on the power of lasting lessons and glimmers of hope, as well as the parallels of uncertainty, overwhelm, and fear given our current political/cultural conditions. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe on Substack 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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0:00.0	Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.
0:04.0	We're having a baby.
0:06.0	We're having a baby.
0:07.0	I've always wanted to be mom.
0:09.0	And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.
0:12.0	I have no idea what we're doing.
0:13.0	Thank you. I have more of an idea.
0:15.0	I think of it like a Tamagotchi.
0:17.0	At the end of all of this...
0:20.0	We're going to have a little baby.
0:21.6	Raising Chelsea, a Hulu original series streaming April 2nd exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.2	18 plus subscription required T's and T supply.
0:35.3	Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have
0:40.4	more room to enjoy the awesome. Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart,
0:45.9	compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency
0:50.5	and space to simplify and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.
0:56.8	Hello, friends. This conversation with Asha originally aired in December 2020, and as you might
1:03.7	recall, it was a very different holiday season for so many of us. As I considered reprising
1:09.8	this episode, I felt deep curiosity. What would we sound
1:13.8	like five years removed from that confusing and painful first year of the pandemic? Would the
1:19.6	lessons we shared resonate today? The answers are that we sounded like ourselves, trying to muddle
1:25.8	through and find light amidst the dark times.
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