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Clea Shearer, co-founder of organizing company The Home Edit, which she started with best friend Joanna Teplin, was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer in 2022

Shearer underwent months of chemo and radiation treatments and has struggled for nearly three years with breast reconstruction complications

Shearer, 43, who lives in Nashville with her photographer husband John Shearer and their two children, has a new memoir, Cancer is Complicated , out Sept. 23 and she shares an exclusive excerpt with PEOPLE

Clea Shearer had just turned 40 and was at the "apex of my career" when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2022. The Home Edit, the celeb-favorite organizing company that Shearer started with bestie Joanna Teplin , had just been acquired by Reese Withers

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