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, your host, Christine Coe, and a range of super smart, compassionate, and thoughtful guests,

you will come away with big picture insights and practical ways to declutter your home,

schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection.

I have always believed that small moments and actions matter tremendously.

My goal is to help you find agency and space in your life through doable baby steps

that will leave you

feeling accomplished instead of overwhelmed.

Hello, friends. How to Holiday is on my mind because after the past couple of years of COVID

colored holidays, part of me is like, wait, how do we do this again? I have many feelings about it. On the one hand,

we are lucky to have large families who want to come together with generosity and love.

On the other, intro work Christine struggles with small talk at large gatherings. Over the years,

I've found that I much prefer one-on-one or small group gatherings with just a few

people so we can really dig in and talk. Over time, I have reframed this reality, not as being a

crumudgeonly party pooper, but as being able to be true to myself and best show up for the people

I care about. We also have the wonderful,

added complexity of a very bouncy, excitable poodle. I joke, but I don't joke. James is the

world's friendliest mammal and also a classic pandemic dog. The combination of these two things

means that he gets overexexcited around people indoors.

So I needed to look back at my photo memories to even remember what happened to the last

couple of years for context when holidays got weird. In 2020, we hunkered in and it ended up being

really great. We started a new, lovely tradition of making whatever we wanted, which included making

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