Edit Your Life Episode 180: Mental + Physical Load Management

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Jobs, travel, home management, babies, complicated relationships...the stress of these things can have a major impact on our physical selves. How do we manage the mental and physical load of modern life? In Episode 180, Christine welcomes back Edit Your Life’s most requested guest: therapist Jonathan Baxter. In response to a listener letter, Christine and Jonathan talk about the physical manifestation of stress, gender roles, the “having it all” myth, how to let go of how things “should” be done, doing vs. owning tasks, and family systems.

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Resources mentioned in this episode

Minimalist Parenting (our book)
Parent Hacks (Asha’s book)
Jonathan Baxter website
Other recent listener request episodes: 1) Episode 169: Relationships, Social Media & Money; 2) Episode 175: Listener Mailbag (Parenting Edition); 3) Episode 177: How To Deal with Difficult People (with Kristen Howerton)
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