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, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency in space to simplify

and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.

Hello, friends, I am so happy to bring you the next interview in my series on caregiving.

This conversation focuses on navigating the emotional, sometimes baggage-laden journey. My guest today is Dr. Sherry

Blake, also known as Dr. Sherry. Dr. Sherry is a licensed clinical psychologist and author of

Care for the Caregiver, surviving the emotional roller coaster. Dr. Sherry's lens comes from both

personal and professional experience.

Her mother suffered from Alzheimer's while her father battled dementia.

If you listen to last week's caregiving across generations episode with Amy Goyer,

you will have heard us talk about how to handle parents who are resistant to reality,

as well as challenging sibling relationships.

And indeed, Dr. Sherry dealt with both willful parents and siblings in denial over the reality that was transpiring.

In this conversation, Dr. Sherry and I dig into emotional issues such as guilt, historical relationship baggage, self-care, finding your voice, and more.

Let's have a listen. Welcome, Dr. Sherry. I am so excited to have you

here today. Thank you for joining me. Thank you so much for having me. Well, you are a superstar.

I mean, we talked before we started recording about how I heard about you. I'll mention that.

I will have said all of that in the

intro, but I want to dive right into our questions because I know your time is very valuable,

very tight. So in this caregiving series, another guest that I had on the show referred to guilt

as a constant companion of caregiving. I'm curious, especially given your lane of expertise, is there a particular starting

tactic or mantra that you recommend to people for how to let go of or even just temporarily

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