Simple, Everyday Coping Tactics [Encore!] (with Janine Halloran)

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

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Are you or your kids struggling to navigate stress, anxiety, and anger? Christine chats with Janine Halloran about the state of kids’ mental health, moments of hope, and simple, everyday coping tactics for kids and parents alike to get through the end of the school year and reset over the summer. 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	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.
0:12.3	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.
0:26.8	Hello, friends. I'm so happy to re-up this wonderful conversation with Janine Halloran.
0:33.1	This episode originally aired May 22, so it is deep in the archive, and Janine's perspective
0:39.6	sure is needed four years later. I really appreciated re-listening to Janine's thoughts on what
0:45.7	it's like to want to help and also be falling apart. Adults also need to work on coping skills
0:51.5	alongside kids. Since we recorded this episode in 2022, there is some
0:56.5	COVID framing, but the principals remain the same. It's a really encouraging conversation,
1:02.3	replete with everyday actionable ways to support kids, and there are also some great timely
1:07.1	tips around the off-ramp to the school year and how to handle summer.
1:12.6	Let's get right to the conversation.
1:15.8	Hello, Janine Halloran.
1:16.4	How are you?
1:17.5	I'm good, Christine.
1:18.4	How are you?
1:19.8	Oh, I'm great.
1:22.4	And I'm so thrilled to talk to you today.
1:33.9	I will pause briefly just to say to listeners that Janine is a licensed mental health counselor, a mom of two, and your website and your products are amazing.
1:36.4	Your website is coping skills for kids. And through this website, folks, Janine offers families and professionals practical ways to help kids cope with stress, anxiety, and anger, of which there's a lot
1:46.5	right now, right? Oh, gosh. Yes, there is. I mean, and people are talking a lot about, you know,
1:54.0	the impacts of COVID. And I just have to remind people, this anxiety and depression stuff was
1:59.5	happening before COVID. It just,
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