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.

Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency in space to simplify and

declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.

Hello, friends.

I have a wonderful, dare I say healing conversation for you today.

Today I'm talking to Deborah Farmer Chris.

She is a former educator turned child development expert,

and her book is Raising Aw Seekers, How the Science of Wonder Helps Our Kids Thrive. In this conversation,

Deborah and I dig deep into how awe supports physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Aw, as it turns out, has a lot of superpowers,

including its ability to strengthen curiosity, kindness, and generosity, and also enhance our

relationships. I think we could all use more of that. G&I talk about finding awe in the every day

and cover lots of practical tactics around slowing down,

handling technology, the power of looking for the good in hard times, and more. Let's get right

to the conversation. Hello and welcome, Deborah. How are you? I am so happy to be here

on this April day. I know. I know. It's kind of, I know we're both

in Massachusetts and the weather's been all over the place, but I feel like spring is coming. And by the time this

airs, all things willing, it will be spring. So my neighbor across the street has these daffodils that

come up two weeks earlier than everybody else's.

I don't know what he does, but they are in full bloom from my window right now.

So like that's giving me life right now.

Okay. Well, that sounds like a source of awe, which is the perfect tee up for our conversation today.

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