https://www.patreon.com/cw/elderescence
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.]]>enFashion & BeautySarnia de la Marehttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/39d4b9f084825ab0f680a33d44c2d979.jpghttps://www.patreon.com/cw/elderescenceThu, 23 Jul 2026 21:28:39 +0000Sarnia de la MaréSarnia de la Marétaletellerclub@gmail.comElderescence 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...
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.]]>truetrueepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/west-dean-college-where-making-makes-the-difference-history-culture-art-design--73134284I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73134284Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:23:28 +0000Sarnia de la Maré410falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/edward-james-s-surrealist-legacy-the-eccentric-patron-who-lived-the-dream-westdeancollege--73134226I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73134226Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:19:50 +0000Sarnia de la Maré377falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mothership-episode-2-2018-with-pasha-du-valentine-for-goddamn-media-documentaries--72727232I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72727232Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:49:09 +0000Sarnia de la Maré225falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mothership-episode-1-2018-with-pasha-du-valentine-for-goddamn-media-documentaries--72727226I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72727226Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:46:11 +0000Sarnia de la Maré217falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/interview-with-a-bdsm-couple-by-pasha-du-valentine-at-brighton-arts-club--72727055I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72727055Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:20:42 +0000Sarnia de la Maré1432bdsm,sexclinictruefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/button-button-by-richard-matheson-live-reading-by-sarnia-de-la-mare-frsa-bedtime-story--72726978I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72726978Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:53:07 +0000Sarnia de la Maré810falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/chat-from-the-boudoir-the-pleasures-of-being-creative-in-our-older-years-figurativearts-composingmusic--72596187
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72596187Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:54:53 +0000Sarnia de la MaréA rest from social media is afoot so I can focus on my hobbies, art, music, and writing 
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>951ageing,algorithms,cello,elderescence,figuredrawing,hobbies,iservalan,makingmusic,matureliving,mygeneration,over60,sarniadelamare,seniors,socialmedia,viola,wisdomfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/being-an-artist-can-be-risky-art-life-elderescence-iservalan-sarniadelamare--72576491I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72576491Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:15:23 +0000Sarnia de la Maré546adultart,art,elderescence,iservalan,life,onlyfans,sarniadelamarefalsefullhttps://www.taletellerclub.com/2026/06/suez-crisis-vs-strait-of-hormuz-2026.htmlI 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)

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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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72546527Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:53:59 +0000Sarnia de la MaréUpdates on life from the creative sides of the universe.
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>444iservalan,reality,sarniadelamarefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tales-from-my-car-and-the-new-yoni-paintings-on-onlyfans-celebrating-femininity-and-freedom--72466788I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72466788Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:23:07 +0000Sarnia de la Maré201falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bargains-on-ebay-studying-at-63-and-taxidermy-elderescence-academy--72400862I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72400862Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:24:40 +0000Sarnia de la Maré890ageing,elderescence,over60,seniors,thirdage,universityfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tonia-and-the-aliens-only-fans-and-the-stolen-bike-elderescence-academy--72383935I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72383935Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:36:22 +0000Sarnia de la Maré896author,book,books,eroticlit,iservalan,reverendbloom,sarniadelamare,scifi,storytelling,taletellerclub,toniaandthealiensfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arsenal-fans-clogged-my-trains-and-i-missed-the-boat-oh-grandma-what-are-you-like-elderescence-academy--72283764I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72283764Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:27:10 +0000Sarnia de la Maré893falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/vivienne-westwood-on-shein-and-the-lost-evri-delivery-elderescence-academy--72155626
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72155626Mon, 25 May 2026 14:52:06 +0000Sarnia de la MaréOld lady moans from the four poster bed.
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>873falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sacred-music-the-very-reverend-bloom-and-joining-the-5am-club-at-the-elderescence-academy--71986609I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71986609Wed, 13 May 2026 06:28:20 +0000Sarnia de la Maré859falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/capcut-fun-and-business-kudos-selling-on-the-blink-friction-ebay-store-elderescence-academy--71954051I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71954051Mon, 11 May 2026 08:26:59 +0000Sarnia de la Maré702falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/elderescence-tv-goes-live-on-only-fans-at-last-what-did-grok-advise-onlyfans--71938963
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71938963Sat, 09 May 2026 17:11:40 +0000Sarnia de la MaréSign up to Elderescence TV online.
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.

BOOKS
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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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(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71681676Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:17:29 +0000Sarnia de la MaréMeet Romeo when he is awake on the documentary of my life Elderescence TV
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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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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(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71674088Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:54:57 +0000Sarnia de la MaréKeeping fit and healthy after 50
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>888falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sarnia-de-la-mare-the-boys-erotic-horror-and-how-pornography-influences-cinema-elderescence-academy--71653486I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71653486Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:44:57 +0000Sarnia de la Maré897falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lounges-tv-a-britishcompany-sharing-my-creative-dreams-elderescence-academy--71632011I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71632011Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:22:36 +0000Sarnia de la Maré892falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blink-friction-shopping-for-the-penthouse-clearout-elderescence-academy--71631664
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71631664Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:04:21 +0000Sarnia de la MaréUpdates from the penthouse as mum and I launch a massive clearout
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.

BOOKS
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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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71270939Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:22:26 +0000Sarnia de la MaréOld but not dead yet….miraculously. Join me for my journal podcast and find all the tips for the smooth transition to our inevitable demise x
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>877falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-benefits-of-drinking-hot-water-and-other-old-lady-habbits-elderescence-academy--71132114
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71132114Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:14:10 +0000Sarnia de la MaréI am on Lounges TV so join me there for creative vibes. @dominartist
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>894falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/grok-vs-chat-gpt-algorithms-and-ai-the-end-is-nigh-elderescence-academy--71098909
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71098909Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:20:28 +0000Sarnia de la MaréThoughts from the 4 poster bed with Sarnia
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>883falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-rise-and-fall-of-ai-and-firing-my-pa-elderescence-academy--71082463www.sarniadelamare.com

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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(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71082463Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:31:00 +0000Sarnia de la MaréGrandma 👵 has come to the end of the road. www.sarniadelamare.comwww.sarniadelamare.com

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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(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>884falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/man-spreading-on-a-coach-journey-which-was-most-unpleasant-elderescence-academy--71080530
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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(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/71080530Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:02:37 +0000Sarnia de la MaréJoin Sarnia for old lady moaning each day. And if you're wondering who is in the pic, that's mum, myself and my younger brother.
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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(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>847falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/can-the-world-survive-donald-trump-thoughts-on-the-state-of-things-from-politica-uk--70655882I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/70655882Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:46:38 +0000Sarnia de la Maré453falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/meno-nd-autism-touch-and-the-freedom-of-menopause-introduction-the-puzzle-of-intimacy-by-sarnia-de-la-mare-frsa--70604975
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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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(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/70604975Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:14:28 +0000Sarnia de la MaréMENO 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....
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Elderescence with Sarnia de la Maré FRSA

Elderescence is a visual and written...]]>239autism,autismcaravan,menopause,relationships,sarniadelamarefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/vanity-and-ageing-why-some-people-fight-time-and-others-make-peace-with-it-elderescence--70579506Welcome 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. For others, the energy once spent managing appearance becomes available for different pursuits — art, travel, learning, friendships, reflection.
Both choices can coexist peacefully.
What matters most is that the choice belongs to the individual rather than to social pressure. Ageing is not a competition with a single correct strategy. It is a personal process that unfolds differently for every person.
Some will sculpt their appearance carefully for many decades.
Others will allow time to mark their features openly.
Both approaches reflect the same underlying freedom: the ability to decide how one wishes to inhabit the passing years.
And perhaps that freedom is one of the quieter privileges of ageing itself.
The older we become, the less we need to follow a single script for how life should look.
Instead, we gain the space to decide for ourselves.
Thank you for listening to Elderescence Academy.
Until next time, stay curious.


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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/70579506Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:48:47 +0000Sarnia de la MaréVanity and Ageing: Why Some People Fight Time and Others Make Peace With It Welcome 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...Welcome 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...]]>375falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-a-simple-life-often-leads-to-greater-happiness-elderecsence-academy-podcast-older-wiser-aging--70545786More experiences.
More productivity.
More stimulation.The modern imagination often associates a full life with a crowded one.Yet if you speak to people later in life, many describe a different trajectory. Over time, they gradually remove things from their lives rather than adding them.Schedules become lighter.
Homes become less cluttered.
Social circles become smaller but deeper.And as these layers of complexity fall away, something interesting happens.Life begins to feel more spacious.This is not the emptiness that younger people sometimes fear when they imagine simplicity. It is a kind of psychological breathing room — a sense that the mind is no longer constantly reacting to demands, interruptions, and comparisons.Instead, attention becomes available again.You notice the taste of a morning coffee.
You hear the subtle rhythms of conversation.
You walk more slowly and observe things that once passed unnoticed.In many ways, simplicity restores the basic pleasures that busyness quietly erodes.Part of the reason this happens lies in how human attention works.The mind has a limited capacity for processing information. When life becomes filled with constant obligations, digital noise, social expectations, and endless choice, attention becomes fragmented. The result is often a persistent feeling of restlessness — the sense that something important is always being missed.Simplicity reduces this pressure.When there are fewer competing demands on attention, the mind settles. Activities that once felt mundane begin to feel absorbing again.Reading a book for an hour without interruption.
Cooking a meal slowly rather than rushing through it.
Walking without simultaneously checking messages.These small acts can restore a surprising amount of contentment.Another aspect of simplicity concerns ownership.Modern culture often encourages people to believe that possessions will increase freedom and satisfaction. Yet in practice, every object requires a small amount of care, maintenance, storage, or attention.The more things we accumulate, the more invisible obligations accumulate alongside them.Later in life, many people begin to see this more clearly. They notice that possessions once acquired with excitement have quietly become responsibilities.Simplifying the material environment can therefore produce a feeling of lightness. Rooms become calmer. Decisions become easier. Time once spent managing objects becomes available for experiences.But simplicity is not only material.It is also social.In youth, social life can sometimes resemble a complex network of obligations. Invitations are accepted because declining might appear rude. Relationships are maintained partly out of habit rather than genuine affinity. Time is spent navigating group dynamics and expectations.As people grow older, they often become more selective.This is not necessarily a rejection of social life. It is a refinement of it.Friendships become fewer but deeper. Conversations become more meaningful because the people involved genuinely wish to be there. There is less interest in performance and more interest in connection.In this way, a simpler social life often becomes a richer one.Another quiet benefit of simplicity is that it restores the possibility of boredom — and boredom, despite its reputation, is not always a negative state.When the mind is not constantly stimulated, it begins to wander. Ideas form more freely. Creativity often emerges from these quiet spaces where attention is not tightly controlled.Many writers, musicians, and artists speak about the importance of unstructured time. Without it, imagination has little room to operate.A simpler life therefore does not necessarily reduce creativity. In many cases it encourages it.There is also a philosophical dimension to simplicity that becomes more visible with age.As people accumulate years of experience, they often notice how quickly circumstances change. Careers rise and fall. Technologies transform entire industries. Cultural trends that once seemed permanent fade within decades.Against this backdrop of change, the pursuit of constant expansion can begin to feel exhausting.Simplicity offers an alternative orientation.Rather than constantly chasing the next improvement, it asks a quieter question: what is already sufficient?This question can be surprisingly powerful.When people identify what is truly enough — enough work, enough possessions, enough activity — the pressure to continue accumulating begins to loosen.Life becomes less about expansion and more about appreciation.This does not mean abandoning ambition or curiosity. Many people remain deeply engaged with learning and exploration throughout their lives.The difference lies in the pace and motivation.Instead of striving to keep up with external expectations, people begin to move at a rhythm that feels natural to them. Activities are chosen because they are interesting or meaningful rather than because they signal success.In this sense, simplicity is not the absence of richness.It is the removal of noise.When unnecessary complications fall away, the ordinary details of life begin to reveal their depth again — conversations, landscapes, music, books, the slow unfolding of seasons.These are experiences that were always present, but they often become visible only when life stops moving quite so quickly.Perhaps this is why so many people later in life describe a shift toward simplicity not as a sacrifice but as a liberation.The crowded version of happiness they once imagined gradually gives way to something quieter but more stable.A sense that life does not need to be impressive in order to be deeply satisfying.That sometimes the richest life is not the most elaborate one.But the one that leaves enough space to notice it.Thank you for listening to Elderescence Academy.Until next time, stay curious.

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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/70545786Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:51:32 +0000Sarnia de la Maré Why a Simple Life Often Leads to Greater HappinessWelcome to Elderescence Academy — reflections on growing older with curiosity, creativity, and calm.One of the quiet discoveries that many people make as life progresses is that happiness does not...More experiences.
More productivity.
More stimulation.The modern imagination often associates a full life with a crowded one.Yet if you speak to people later in life, many describe a different trajectory. Over time, they gradually remove things from their lives rather than adding them.Schedules become lighter.
Homes become less cluttered.
Social circles become smaller but deeper.And as these layers of complexity fall away, something interesting happens.Life begins to feel more spacious.This is not the emptiness that younger people sometimes fear when they imagine simplicity. It is a kind of psychological breathing room — a sense that the mind is no longer constantly reacting to demands, interruptions, and comparisons.Instead, attention becomes available again.You notice the taste of a morning coffee.
You hear the subtle rhythms of conversation.
You walk more slowly and observe things that once passed unnoticed.In many ways, simplicity restores the basic pleasures that busyness quietly erodes.Part of the reason this happens lies in how human attention works.The mind has a limited capacity for processing information. When life becomes filled with constant obligations, digital noise, social expectations, and endless choice, attention becomes fragmented. The result is often a persistent feeling of restlessness — the sense that something important is always being missed.Simplicity reduces this pressure.When there are fewer competing demands on attention, the mind settles. Activities that once felt mundane begin to feel absorbing again.Reading a book for an hour without interruption.
Cooking a meal slowly rather than rushing through it.
Walking without simultaneously checking messages.These small acts can restore a surprising amount of contentment.Another aspect of simplicity concerns ownership.Modern culture often encourages people to believe that possessions will increase freedom and satisfaction. Yet in practice, every object requires a small amount of care, maintenance, storage, or attention.The more things we accumulate, the more invisible obligations accumulate alongside them.Later in life, many people begin to see this more clearly. They notice that possessions once acquired with excitement have quietly become responsibilities.Simplifying the material environment can therefore produce a feeling of lightness. Rooms become calmer. Decisions become easier. Time once spent managing objects becomes available for experiences.But simplicity is not only material.It is also social.In youth, social life can sometimes resemble a complex network of obligations. Invitations are accepted because declining might appear rude. Relationships are maintained partly out of habit rather than genuine affinity. Time is spent navigating group dynamics and expectations.As people grow older, they often become more selective.This is not necessarily a rejection of social life. It is a refinement of it.Friendships become fewer but deeper. Conversations become more meaningful because the people involved genuinely wish to be there. There is less interest in performance and more interest in connection.In this way, a simpler social life often becomes a richer one.Another quiet benefit of simplicity is...]]>419falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-joy-of-freedom-as-we-age-elderecsence-academy-by-sarnia-de-la-mare-frsa--70545625Writing.
Learning an instrument.
Gardening.
Studying obscure subjects that have no obvious career value.These activities might have seemed indulgent earlier in life. Later they begin to feel like the real substance of living.Interestingly, this freedom can sometimes make individuals more compelling rather than less.When someone no longer appears to be performing for approval, their behaviour often becomes more relaxed and authentic. They speak with fewer rehearsed phrases. They display interests without carefully filtering them through social expectations.The result is a personality that feels less manufactured.Observers often describe such people as confident, though the confidence is not the competitive kind associated with youth. It is quieter.It is simply the absence of anxiety about being evaluated.This state has been recognised across many cultures.Philosophers from the Stoic tradition wrote about the importance of indifference to public opinion. Buddhist teachings similarly warn about the suffering created by attachment to reputation. In later life many people rediscover these ideas through experience rather than philosophy.They realise that reputation is a moving target, and that pursuing it relentlessly often leads to exhaustion.Freedom appears when the pursuit stops dominating behaviour.It is important to note that this does not mean abandoning standards or ambition. Many people continue to work hard and produce remarkable things well into old age.The difference lies in motivation.Instead of striving primarily for admiration, they work from interest, curiosity, or personal conviction.A painter may continue painting because colour still fascinates them. A writer may continue writing because ideas keep forming. A teacher may continue teaching because they enjoy watching understanding develop in others.The work becomes intrinsically satisfying.This shift is one reason why many artists produce some of their most original work later in life. Without the burden of constantly proving themselves, they allow their curiosity to lead them in unexpected directions.Ordinary life benefits from the same principle.Friendships become easier when neither person is attempting to maintain a particular image. Conversations deepen because people feel less need to appear impressive or knowledgeable. Humour becomes more relaxed.The social world becomes lighter.Perhaps the greatest change is internal.When the need to impress recedes, self-observation becomes gentler. Instead of constantly asking, “How am I doing compared to others?” the mind begins to ask different questions.“What interests me now?”“What would I enjoy learning next?”“What kind of life feels peaceful rather than impressive?”These questions lead to very different decisions.In this sense, the strange freedom of not needing to impress anyone is not simply a social change. It is a philosophical shift.Life moves from performance toward experience.The audience fades, and the stage becomes a place for exploration rather than judgement.For many people, this is one of the quiet privileges of ageing.Not the loss of energy or ambition that popular culture often fears, but the gradual discovery that much of life’s pressure was self-constructed.And that once it dissolves, a different kind of freedom appears.A freedom that is calm, curious, and remarkably spacious.Thank you for listening to Elderescence Academy.Until next time, stay curious.Sarnia x 

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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/70545625Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:34:42 +0000Sarnia de la Maré The Joy of Freedom as We AgeWelcome to Elderescence Academy — reflections on growing older with curiosity, creativity, and calm.One of the quietest but most profound psychological changes that often accompanies age is the gradual disappearance of a...Writing.
Learning an instrument.
Gardening.
Studying obscure subjects that have no obvious career value.These activities might have seemed indulgent earlier in life. Later they begin to feel like the real substance of living.Interestingly, this freedom can sometimes make individuals more compelling rather than less.When someone no longer appears to be performing for approval, their behaviour often becomes more relaxed and authentic. They speak...]]>176falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-strange-freedom-of-not-needing-to-impress-anyone-welcome-to-elderescence-academy-podcast-age--70545462A criticism can linger for weeks.But slowly, quietly, something begins to shift.It does not happen all at once. It arrives in small recognitions.Perhaps you find yourself declining an invitation you once would have accepted just to be seen there.
Perhaps you speak your mind in a meeting without rehearsing it for hours beforehand.
Perhaps you choose comfort over fashion and realise — quite wonderfully — that nothing terrible happens.The world keeps turning.There is a peculiar calm in this moment.You realise that the energy once spent trying to appear impressive can be used for something far more satisfying: being sincere.Conversations become simpler.
Friendships become clearer.
Work becomes more honest.You discover that the people who remain around you are not there because you are performing well, but because they genuinely enjoy your company.And that is a very different kind of relationship.In youth we often try to build admiration.
Later in life, many people discover something better: ease.The strange freedom of not needing to impress anyone is not about giving up. It is about arriving.Arriving at a point where your sense of self no longer depends on applause.And when that happens, something unexpected occurs.You often become more interesting.Without the weight of constant performance, curiosity returns. Playfulness returns. The mind begins to explore again instead of constantly presenting itself.Many artists describe this moment late in life. They stop trying to prove themselves, and suddenly their work becomes freer, more experimental, more personal.The same thing can happen in ordinary life.You may take up painting simply because you enjoy the colours.
You may begin writing, gardening, walking, learning an instrument — not to impress anyone, but because it brings a quiet satisfaction.This is one of the hidden gifts of ageing.The freedom to become genuinely yourself.And the strange thing is, once the need to impress fades, people often appreciate you more.Not for the image you project.But for the person you actually are.Thank you for listening to Elderescence Academy.Until next time, stay curious.

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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/70545462Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:20:18 +0000Sarnia de la Maré The Strange Freedom of Not Needing to Impress AnyoneWelcome to Elderescence Academy — reflections on growing older with curiosity, creativity, and calm.One of the strangest freedoms that arrives with age is something nobody really prepares you...A criticism can linger for weeks.But slowly, quietly, something begins to shift.It does not happen all at once. It arrives in small recognitions.Perhaps you find yourself declining an invitation you once would have accepted just to be seen there.
Perhaps you speak your mind in a meeting without rehearsing it for hours beforehand.
Perhaps you choose comfort over fashion and realise — quite wonderfully — that nothing terrible happens.The world keeps turning.There is a peculiar calm in this moment.You realise that the energy once spent trying to appear impressive can be used for something far more satisfying: being sincere.Conversations become simpler.
Friendships become clearer.
Work becomes more honest.You discover that the people who remain around you are not there because you are performing well, but because they genuinely enjoy your company.And that is a very different kind of relationship.In youth we often try to build admiration.
Later in life, many people discover something better: ease.The strange freedom of not needing to impress anyone is not about giving up. It is about arriving.Arriving at a point where your sense of self no longer depends on applause.And when that happens, something unexpected occurs.You often become more interesting.Without the weight of constant performance, curiosity returns. Playfulness returns. The mind begins to explore again instead of constantly presenting itself.Many artists describe this moment late in life. They stop trying to prove themselves, and suddenly their work becomes freer, more experimental, more personal.The same thing can happen in ordinary life.You may take up painting simply because you enjoy the colours.
You may begin writing, gardening, walking, learning an instrument — not to impress anyone, but because it brings a quiet satisfaction.This is one of the hidden gifts of ageing.The freedom to become genuinely yourself.And the strange thing is, once the need to impress fades, people often appreciate you more.Not for the image you project.But for the person you actually are.Thank you for listening to Elderescence Academy.Until next time, stay curious.

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.175falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/day-4-double-blepharoplasty-recovery-elderescence-academy--70330248
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/70330248Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:35:23 +0000Sarnia de la MaréI am doing better today after the shock 😲 of my treatment which is a bit 😞 disabling for a workaholic.
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.

BOOKS
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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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/70265024Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:54:36 +0000Sarnia de la MaréNo pain no gain...follow my recovery on my podcast #health #spirehospital
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>796falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/setting-up-the-obs-and-the-ion-duo-for-the-new-iservalan-tv-shows-with-elderescence-academy--69847755
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/69847755Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:50:29 +0000Sarnia de la MaréI need a granny nap….one that lasts twelve hours. Join me soon on Lounges TV.
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>525falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-curse-of-the-gallstone-whatever-it-is-it-should-probably-go-back-where-it-came-from-elderescence-academy--69765057
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/69765057Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:53:34 +0000Sarnia de la MaréJoin Sarnia with the woes of grandmothers and great grandmothers
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>783ageing,elderescence,fitness,sarniatvfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-pole-fitness-journey-is-interrupted-by-an-intercostal-injury-as-i-was-flying-around-the-pole-elderescence-academy--69739776I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/69739776Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:48:40 +0000Sarnia de la Maré872falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/going-back-to-university-at-64-to-become-a-luthier-elderescence-academy--69738479
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/69738479Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:21:11 +0000Sarnia de la MaréCatch up with Sarnia as she turns here career around for a slow build at the Glorious West Dean College.
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>888falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/big-dreams-and-real-worth-pleasure-and-work-perspectives-by-elderescence-academy--69371156I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/69371156Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:35:12 +0000Sarnia de la Maré868falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pleasure-in-later-years-chapter-2-the-sensory-body-after-midlife-elderescence-academy-books--69296387
The essay reframes ageing not as sensory decline, but as refinement, arguing that subtle pleasures become more meaningful as the body becomes a finer, more attentive instrument. Topics include ageing and the nervous system, sensory sensitivity, pleasure after midlife, embodied intelligence, and rethinking the ageing body in contemporary health culture. A full transcript of the essay is available for listeners who prefer to read alongside the audio.

Chapter 2 The Sensory Body After Midlife There is a persistent myth about ageing that insists the senses dull with time. That touch becomes blunted, sound fades, pleasure weakens, and the body gradually withdraws from the world of sensation. Yet for many people, the opposite is true. What changes after midlife is not the ability to feel, but the nature of feeling itself. Sensation does not disappear; it refines.

The body becomes less tolerant of excess and more attuned to nuance. What is often described as decline is, in practice, a form of discernment. In youth, the body absorbs sensation with relative ease. Noise, speed, texture, and intensity are tolerated, even sought after. The nervous system is resilient to overload, and stimulation is often equated with vitality. Loud music, crowded spaces, abrasive fabrics, hurried movement — these are endured, sometimes enjoyed, often unquestioned. As the years pass, the body begins to edit.

Many people notice an increased sensitivity to texture, sound, temperature, and pace. Certain fabrics feel intrusive rather than neutral. Layered noise becomes exhausting. Extremes of heat or cold are more sharply registered. Rushed movement and conversation feel abrasive rather than energising. These changes are frequently framed as loss. As signs of fragility. As evidence that the body is becoming less capable of engaging with life. But sensitivity is not the same as weakness.

Sensitivity is information. A body that registers more detail is not malfunctioning. It is paying closer attention. The nervous system, shaped by years of lived experience, becomes less interested in extremes and more responsive to fine distinctions — small shifts in pressure, subtle changes in temperature, the difference between tension and ease. This refinement alters the landscape of pleasure. After midlife, pleasure often becomes quieter but deeper. It no longer relies on spectacle or intensity. Subtle experiences — the feel of well-made fabric, the exact warmth of water, the cadence of breath during movement, the tone of a voice rather than its volume — take on greater significance.

These are not indulgences. They are calibrations. The body is no longer chasing sensation. It is receiving it. This is why subtle pleasures often become more meaningful with age. A single stretch may feel more nourishing than an intense workout. One piece of music may resonate more fully than an entire playlist. Stillness may offer more satisfaction than constant stimulation.

This is not boredom, nor withdrawal from life. It is resolution. The ageing body is often described as worn — an instrument losing its reliability, its responsiveness, its strength. But many bodies after midlife behave less like damaged instruments and more like finely adjusted ones. They respond best to precision rather than force, to care rather than intensity. A violin is not weaker than a drum. It simply requires a different touch. So does the sensory body after midlife. Elderescence does not deny that the body changes. It asks instead what kind of change is actually occurring. A body that requests slower pace, better materials, clearer sound, and more thoughtful movement is not asking for less life. It is asking for better signal. The sensory body after midlife is not fading.
It is tuning itself — so that pleasure, when it arrives, arrives clearly.



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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/69296387Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:17:43 +0000Sarnia de la Maré In this chapter of Elderescence, Sarnia de la Maré explores how sensation changes after midlife — including increased sensitivity to texture, sound, temperature, and pace. The essay reframes ageing not as sensory decline, but as refinement, arguing...
The essay reframes ageing not as sensory decline, but as refinement, arguing that subtle pleasures become more meaningful as the body becomes a finer, more attentive instrument. Topics include ageing and the nervous system, sensory sensitivity, pleasure after midlife, embodied intelligence, and rethinking the ageing body in contemporary health culture. A full transcript of the essay is available for listeners who prefer to read alongside the audio.

Chapter 2 The Sensory Body After Midlife There is a persistent myth about ageing that insists the senses dull with time. That touch becomes blunted, sound fades, pleasure weakens, and the body gradually withdraws from the world of sensation. Yet for many people, the opposite is true. What changes after midlife is not the ability to feel, but the nature of feeling itself. Sensation does not disappear; it refines.

The body becomes less tolerant of excess and more attuned to nuance. What is often described as decline is, in practice, a form of discernment. In youth, the body absorbs sensation with relative ease. Noise, speed, texture, and intensity are tolerated, even sought after. The nervous system is resilient to overload, and stimulation is often equated with vitality. Loud music, crowded spaces, abrasive fabrics, hurried movement — these are endured, sometimes enjoyed, often unquestioned. As the years pass, the body begins to edit.

Many people notice an increased sensitivity to texture, sound, temperature, and pace. Certain fabrics feel intrusive rather than neutral. Layered noise becomes exhausting. Extremes of heat or cold are more sharply registered. Rushed movement and conversation feel abrasive rather than energising. These changes are frequently framed as loss. As signs of fragility. As evidence that the body is becoming less capable of engaging with life. But sensitivity is not the same as weakness.

Sensitivity is information. A body that registers more detail is not malfunctioning. It is paying closer attention. The nervous system, shaped by years of lived experience, becomes less interested in extremes and more responsive to fine distinctions — small shifts in pressure, subtle changes in temperature, the difference between tension and ease. This refinement alters the landscape of pleasure. After midlife, pleasure often becomes quieter but deeper. It no longer relies on spectacle or intensity. Subtle experiences — the feel of well-made fabric, the exact warmth of water, the cadence of breath during movement, the tone of a voice rather than its volume — take on greater significance.

These are not indulgences. They are calibrations. The body is no longer chasing sensation. It is receiving it. This is why subtle pleasures often become more meaningful with age. A single stretch may feel more nourishing than an intense workout. One piece of music may resonate more fully than an entire playlist. Stillness may offer more satisfaction than constant stimulation.

This is not boredom, nor withdrawal from life. It is resolution. The ageing body is often described as worn — an instrument losing its reliability, its responsiveness, its strength. But many bodies after midlife behave less like damaged instruments and more like finely adjusted ones. They respond best to precision rather than force, to care rather than intensity. A violin is not weaker than a drum. It simply requires a different touch. So does the sensory body after midlife. Elderescence does not deny that the body changes. It asks instead what kind of change is actually occurring. A body that requests slower pace, better materials, clearer sound, and more thoughtful movement is not asking for less life. It is asking for better signal. The sensory body after...]]>3222,academy™,aging,body,books,chapter,elderescence,later,midlife,sarniadelamare,sensory,years:falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-older-bodies-need-pleasure-not-punishment-from-the-elderescence-academy-book-series--69295971
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/69295971Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:19:17 +0000Sarnia de la MaréWhy Older Bodies Need Pleasure, Not Punishment by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>380academy,bodies,book,elderescence,frome,older,pleasure,punishment,sarniadelamare,series,taletellerclubpressfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/combatting-loneliness-for-our-elderly-community-with-a-saturday-job-elderescence-academy--69286460I 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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/69286460Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:31:42 +0000Sarnia de la Maré849falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/warm-ups-for-older-people-who-wish-to-exercise-tips-from-sarnia-at-the-elderescence-academy--69248729
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/69248729Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:13:16 +0000Sarnia de la MaréTake it slow and take it firm
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>620elderescence academy,exercise at elderescence,fitness,healthfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sensual-yoga-weight-training-and-elderly-ladies-in-high-heels-at-the-elderescence-academy--69248726
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/69248726Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:08:58 +0000Sarnia de la MaréMore warbling with Sarnia as she ponders her existence 
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>872fitness,palates,weights,yogafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/skin-cancer-removal-and-always-making-sure-us-oldies-know-where-the-nearest-loo-is-elderescenceacademy--69248742
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/69248742Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:47:13 +0000Sarnia de la MaréThis is one from the archives I thought I would share 
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>890cancer,elderescence academy,health,life,mum,mumhealth,sarniadelamarefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/colonoscopies-and-hospitals-helping-someone-with-anxiety-around-health-and-cancer-treatment-elderescence-academy--69286231
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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/69286231Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:38:04 +0000Sarnia de la MaréThe older we get, the more obtrusive the process, the cancer hunt
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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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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(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/69248746Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:17:40 +0000Sarnia de la MaréA poem for the wise.
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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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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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.

BOOKS
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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.

BOOKS
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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.

BOOKS
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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.

BOOKS
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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.

BOOKS
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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.

BOOKS
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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.

BOOKS
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Buy the books below

https://amzn.to/44Nc3Ih

https://amzn.to/4jghgOI


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.

BOOKS
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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.

BOOKS
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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.

BOOKS
(I may earn commission on book sales as an Amazon Associate)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/69248734Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:28:57 +0000Sarnia de la MaréA chat over morning coffee...putting the world to rights as always with Sarnia de la Maré 
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.

BOOKS
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