Natalie Audelo

What if those words — “this is well within the realm of normal” — are actually the kindest and most loving gift we can offer you when you are in the caregiving role again, no matter what you are ever going through, no matter what demands are being placed on you, no matter how much you are struggling, or how well or badly you think you are handling

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As you well know, my dear, when you are in the actual inferno or emergency — meaning when life becomes bigger than you can handle, unmanageable and exhausting — you actually cannot practice self-care any more than you can fly to the moon.

In fact, you have become angry in the past when people told you at such times to take care of yourself because

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Here’s the most important reason I include people of all ages: I am trying to de-stigmatize and normalize the effects of aging by showing that it’s happening to everyone of every age, all the time. And I’m trying to keep Oldster Magazine from becoming the kind of silo that only covers (and therefore appeals to) a narrow group of people.

Oldster Magazine is about people (of all genders) getting older. (I’m using the term “oldster” subversively, because I want to question who we consider to be “old” as we move through life.) Oldster Magazine applies a magnifying lens on the milestones we celebrate, then grieve as we move past them, beginning in childhood and extending to old age and... See more

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."

The mystic psychologist Carl Jung suggested that such sensations do ‘not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.’ In other words this kind of loneliness arises from feeling not fully seen, held, celebrated or... See more