Cancer is Complicated by Clea Shearer

If your pantry is pristine, your sock drawer lined up perfectly, and your wardrobe organized in rainbow order, you know who Clea Shearer is. She one half of the Home Edit, owned by Reese Witherspoon’s company Hello Sunshine. Along with Joanna Teplin, they run the Home Edit organizing company, and star in the Netlflix series “Get Organized with the Home Edit.” As a person who finds organizing things relaxing, Clea and Joanna are my heroes. They are smart and witty, and ruthless when it comes to helping movie stars, as well as common people, declutter their homes. In March of 2022, after selling her company to Reese Witherspoon for a price tag estimated to be millions of dollars, Clea was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer. “Cancer is Complicated” is her memoir about how her life changed after her diagnosis. Any breast cancer diagnosis hits hard, but for Clea, fighting cancer in the middle of Covid became even more complicated. At one point she had Covid, too, and had to get her radiation treatments in the middle of the night to help protect other cancer patients. She was supported by her husband, children, mother and Teplin, and she chronicles how she was able to get treatment, and learns a lot about cancer and herself in the process. One of the things she had to do was learn to slow down, which was a silver lining for her cancer. She had makes lists of helpful things for people to know about cancer, and how to support a loved one who has been diagnosed. I found her story not only well-written and thoughtful, but also provided me with helpful tips on how to support someone else during their cancer journey. To buy this book on Amazon click here.