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Elderescence Academy™

Elderescence Academy™

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Elderescence Academy — Podcast Description

Elderescence Academy is a podcast devoted to embodied ageing, creative vitality, and strength in later life. Hosted by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA, artist, author, and founder of the Elderescence Academy™, this series explores what it means to live well, move beautifully, and continue becoming as we age. Rather than treating ageing as decline, Elderescence Academy™ approaches later life as a period of expansion—where creativity deepens, the body learns new intelligence, and confidence is rebuilt through practice. Episodes draw from movement disciplines, music, pole and ballet fusion, posture, balance, artistry, mental wellbeing, and the quiet psychology of self-trust.

This is not academic theory.

It is Elderescence in practice. Each episode offers reflective essays, lived insights, gentle provocations, and practical perspectives designed for adults who wish to remain curious, capable, and expressive in their bodies and lives—at any age.

Elderescence Academy is a living project:
rooted in elegance, strength, and the freedom to keep evolving.Sarnia de la Mare Arte Biografías y Memorias Ciencias Sociales Desarrollo Personal Diseño y Artes Decorativas Éxito Personal
Episodios
  • Can The World Survive Donald Trump? Thoughts on the state of things from Politica UK

    Can The World Survive Donald Trump? Thoughts on the state of things from Politica UK
    Mar 16 2026
    If you are thrilled to be older, wiser, and thankfull, welcome to my podcast.
    I am a writer and musician reclaiming my life as an older person.

    Elderescence with Sarnia de la Maré FRSA

    Elderescence is a visual and written project exploring creativity, ageing well, and self-confidence built from within.This space brings together reflective drawing, digital mark-making, fashion studies, and quiet visual essays — alongside themes of fitness, beauty, and style as acts of self-trust rather than correction.The work is slow, intentional, and human. Less about perfection. More about presence.Elderescence is concerned with:
    • Creative longevity
    • Ageing without erasure
    • Fashion as identity, not trend
    • Fitness as energy, not punishment
    • Beauty as expression, not compliance
    • Reinvention after change
    This work is part of a wider ecosystem that includes podcasts, essays, publishing, and long-form projects — but here, the focus is visual thinking: ideas, bodies, posture, fabric, gesture, and tone.

    This is not aspirational lifestyle imagery. It is lived confidence.

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    8 m
  • 🎪 MENO ND Autism, Touch, and the Freedom of Menopause Introduction The Puzzle of Intimacy by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA

    🎪 MENO ND Autism, Touch, and the Freedom of Menopause Introduction The Puzzle of Intimacy by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA
    Mar 12 2026
    MENO NDAutism, Touch, and the Freedom of MenopauseIntroductionThe Puzzle of IntimacyFor most of my life I assumed there was something quietly wrong with me.I loved people. I felt loyalty, tenderness, and fierce protectiveness toward those close to me. I could sit for hours talking with someone I trusted, listening carefully, observing small details about their moods, remembering what mattered to them. Emotional closeness came naturally.Yet physical closeness often did not.Touch—particularly the casual, affectionate touch that many people seem to experience as comforting—frequently felt overwhelming. A hug could feel intrusive rather than soothing. Prolonged contact could become exhausting. Even small gestures that others interpreted as warmth could feel, internally, like sensory noise.This created a paradox that took many years to understand: it is possible to care deeply for others while simultaneously struggling with the physical language through which love is commonly expressed.For autistic women, this paradox can be especially confusing. Cultural expectations around femininity assume that women are naturally tactile and emotionally demonstrative. We are expected to hug easily, cuddle instinctively, and communicate affection through physical closeness. A woman who does not behave this way can be labelled distant, cold, or emotionally unavailable.Many autistic women therefore learn to perform affection. We watch how others behave and copy it. We tolerate contact that feels uncomfortable because we do not want to appear rude or unkind. We learn scripts of normality.This process is known as masking. In relationships, masking can become particularly intense.During the early stages of romantic connection—when excitement and novelty are high—it can be easier to maintain the performance. The cultural script of romance provides a structure: dates, flirtation, gestures of intimacy that follow predictable patterns. But as relationships settle into everyday life, expectations around touch, sexuality, and closeness often increase. What once felt manageable can become exhausting.The result is a pattern many autistic women quietly recognise: relationships that feel emotionally meaningful but physically overwhelming.For years this tension may remain unexplained. It can be interpreted as personal failure, emotional distance, or incompatibility with partners who expect physical intimacy to play a central role in connection.Then menopause arrives.Menopause is usually described as a period of loss: the loss of youth, fertility, and sexual vitality. But for some women—particularly those who have long felt conflicted about the physical expectations placed on their bodies—it can bring something else entirely.Relief.As hormonal changes alter libido and partners age alongside us, the cultural pressure surrounding sexuality often softens. The urgency that once surrounded physical intimacy begins to fade. The scripts that once governed relationships lose some of their force.For the first time, it can become possible to ask a simple question:What if intimacy does not have to follow the rules I was taught?What if tenderness does not require constant touch?What if autonomy—over one’s body, one’s boundaries, and one’s relationships—can coexist with deep affection?This book explores those questions. It looks at the sensory realities of touch in autism, the social expectations placed on women, the role of masking and overwhelm in intimate relationships, and the unexpected ways menopause can allow a quiet renegotiation of intimacy.For some women, menopause represents decline.For others, it marks the beginning of something far more unexpected:the freedom to define closeness on their own terms.If you are thrilled to be older, wiser, and thankfull, welcome to my podcast. I am a writer and musician reclaiming my life as an older person.Elderescence with Sarnia de la Maré FRSAElderescence is a visual and written project exploring creativity, ageing well, and self-confidence built from within.This space brings together reflective drawing, digital mark-making, fashion studies, and quiet visual essays — alongside themes of fitness, beauty, and style as acts of self-trust rather than correction.The work is slow, intentional, and human. Less about perfection. More about presence.Elderescence is concerned with:Creative longevityAgeing without erasureFashion as identity, not trendFitness as energy, not punishmentBeauty as expression, not complianceReinvention after changeThis work is part of a wider ecosystem that includes podcasts, essays, publishing, and long-form projects — but here, the focus is visual thinking: ideas, bodies, posture, fabric, gesture, and tone.This is not aspirational lifestyle imagery. It is lived confidence.BOOKS(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)
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    4 m
  • 👵 Vanity and Ageing: Why Some People Fight Time and Others Make Peace With It #elderescence

    👵 Vanity and Ageing: Why Some People Fight Time and Others Make Peace With It #elderescence
    Mar 10 2026
    Vanity and Ageing: Why Some People Fight Time and Others Make Peace With ItWelcome to Elderescence Academy — reflections on growing older with curiosity, creativity, and calm.Ageing is one of the few experiences that every human being shares, yet the ways people respond to it vary enormously.Some individuals meet the passing of time with determination. They exercise discipline over their appearance, invest in skincare, hair treatments, aesthetic procedures, and sometimes surgery. They aim to preserve a version of themselves that feels familiar — a face, a body, an image that reflects the vitality they still feel within.Others take a very different path. They allow the changes of time to appear openly. Hair turns grey, skin softens, lines deepen, and the body shifts its shape and rhythm. They may care for themselves well, but they do not attempt to resist the visible signs of age.These two responses are often presented as opposites — as if one represents vanity and the other represents acceptance.In reality, the motivations behind them are far more complex.Human beings have always been attentive to appearance. Long before modern cosmetics and surgery existed, people used dyes, clothing, jewellery, hairstyles, and rituals of grooming to shape how they were seen. Appearance has always carried social meaning.It signals health, status, identity, creativity, belonging.In many ways, caring about how one looks is simply part of being human.What changes with age is not the instinct itself, but the context surrounding it.Modern societies place a great deal of symbolic value on youth. Youth is associated with possibility, beauty, fertility, productivity, novelty. Entire industries have grown around preserving the outward signs of youth for as long as possible.Against this background, it is understandable that some people choose to intervene in the ageing process. Cosmetic procedures, dermatology, dentistry, and aesthetic medicine offer tools that previous generations never had access to.For some individuals, these tools provide confidence. They help a person feel that their outward appearance still reflects their inner energy. Others enjoy the artistry involved in shaping their image. In these cases, aesthetic intervention can feel like an extension of personal expression.At the same time, there are people who feel little desire to resist visible ageing. They may see wrinkles or grey hair not as problems to solve but as markers of experience. Each change tells a story of time lived.This perspective often grows alongside a broader shift in priorities. As people accumulate years of experience, attention sometimes moves away from appearance and toward other aspects of life: relationships, creativity, knowledge, or simply peace of mind.The mirror becomes less central.Neither approach is necessarily more authentic than the other.In fact, the boundary between them is often fluid. A person might dye their hair but feel comfortable with wrinkles. Another might avoid cosmetic procedures but enjoy beautiful clothing or jewellery. Many people move between these attitudes at different stages of life.What makes the subject particularly interesting is the role that identity plays.For some individuals, appearance has been closely tied to their sense of self for many years. Actors, performers, public figures, and people whose work relies on visual presentation may feel that maintaining a particular image is part of their professional identity. Changing that image can feel like changing a role that they have inhabited for decades.Others never experienced appearance as a central part of their identity. Their sense of self may be rooted more strongly in intellectual, creative, or relational qualities. For them, visible ageing feels less consequential.There is also the psychological dimension of familiarity.Human beings tend to prefer continuity. We become accustomed to our reflection over time, and sudden changes can feel disorienting. For some people, aesthetic interventions help maintain a sense of continuity with the person they recognise in the mirror.For others, adaptation comes more easily. They simply adjust their mental image of themselves as time progresses.Cultural background also plays a role. Different societies interpret ageing in different ways. In some cultures, visible age is associated with wisdom, authority, and dignity. In others, youth is strongly prioritised as a symbol of vitality and relevance.These cultural signals inevitably influence individual choices.Yet perhaps the most interesting shift occurs internally.As people move further into adulthood, many discover that the emotional weight they once attached to appearance begins to change. The attention that was once directed toward external evaluation gradually moves inward.Instead of asking, “How do I look to others?” the question becomes, “How do I feel within my own life?”For some, aesthetic care remains an enjoyable form of self-expression. ...
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