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 and space to simplify

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

Hello, friends.

I thought it would be interesting to bring an episode that aired back in July 2016 out

from the locked archives, and I thought it would be useful because it is summer and the

messy room battles never seem to end. And these battles potentially feel even more aggravating

during this summer when kids should have more time to declutter, but likely have little to no

interest in doing so.

This episode is a little different from Asha and my episodes where we volley tips back and forth.

It's very reflective, very conversational, and we go deep in discussing decluttering as an act,

as well as the concept of decluttering in relation to morality, anxiety, and more.

It was really, really fascinating to listen back on this episode.

The inspiration for the conversation was a New York Times article by Judy Petillion,

and I will link that article and her memoir in the show notes.

Let's have a listen.

I'm completely fascinated by this conversation that we have viewed up today.

I'm so excited. Because this is based on a really interesting New York Times opinion piece that I

recently read by a woman named Judy Battalion.

And the piece was titled, should I make my daughter clean her room?

And I thought to myself when I picked it up, oh, this is going to be sort of an interesting

little, you know, it's a little parenting conundrum.

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