Helping Seniors Transition with Compassion (with Grace Rehman)

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Edit Your Life Show

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4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Are you part of the sandwich generation, working to support a senior with a transition? Christine talks with Grace Rehman about how to compassionately approach senior downsizing and other transitions. They talk about how to hold a lens focused on dignity and respect, dealing with downsizing resistance and volume, and more. For links and resources visit the show notes. 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 or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. 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
0:21.8	and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.
0:26.8	Hello, friends.
0:28.0	If you have seniors in your life who you're lovingly trying to support through a downsizing
0:34.3	process, I have a wonderful guest for you today, and it feels well-timed
0:39.8	with the season of transitions since we are entering spring. Today I'm talking to Grace Ramon,
0:45.5	the owner of Organized with Grace, and she specializes in helping seniors declutter and downsize.
0:51.3	She also has a podcast called Organize with Grace. And in this conversation, we talk about
0:56.6	approaching senior downsizing with compassion and how to hold a lens focused on dignity and respect.
1:02.8	We talk about how to handle downsizing resistance and volume and so much more. If you need
1:08.4	further support related to caregiving, I wanted to direct you to some
1:12.2	companion episodes. Last year, I did a three-part series, including the episodes Caregiving
1:17.8	Across Generations with Amy Goyer, navigating the Caregiving Crisis with Emily Kenway,
1:23.8	and how to handle the Caregiving roller coaster with Dr. Sherry Blake.
1:27.9	There are also back episodes on centering yourself in the sandwich generation with Asha Dornfest
1:33.6	and a conversation with Asha as co-host on supporting aging loved ones.
1:39.1	I hope these episodes will help you in your journey.
1:42.1	Let's get right to the conversation with Grace.
1:46.1	Hello, Grace, and welcome to edit your life. I am so delighted to talk to you today. Hi.
1:52.5	Hello, Christine. Thank you for having me. This is, as we were just saying earlier, I feel like this is
1:58.4	going to be such a great conversation. So thank you for having
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