Jacinta Parsons: On reclaiming your forever self, the wisdom of older women and lessons from living with chronic illness

Jacinta Parsons: On reclaiming your forever self, the wisdom of older women and lessons from living with chronic illness

Season 2: Episode Six

Jacinta Parsons: On reclaiming your forever self, the wisdom of older women and lessons from living with chronic illness

Reaching mid-life and reckoning with the ageing process can also be a time of invisibility and isolation, particularly for women.

Living with a chronic illness can also be a lonely place. It can feel like the world is moving on around you while you’re stuck in freeze frame.

But what if these experiences were actually the birthplace for bringing forth the greatest version of ourselves? One that is truly at peace and comfortable alone.


This week’s guest has lived and researched both these topics and has many lessons to impart about the importance of finding our ‘forever self.’

In a moving and intimate conversation, Jacinta and Jill get vulnerable as they dive into some of life’s biggest topics.

Jacinta Parsons is a broadcaster, public speaker, ABC Melbourne radio host and author of three books that delve into the complexities, frailties and wisdom of the human condition:

Unseen: The Secret World of Chronic Illness; A Question of Age; and the soon to be released,

A Wisdom of Age.

You can follow Jacinta on Instagram: @jacintaparsons or visit her website here.

To stay in touch with Well Enough Alone, you can follow us on Instagram @wellenoughalonepod or @jillstark__ or support the show and get subscriber-only, early and ad-free episodes on Patreon.

Well Enough Alone is a Spare Room production. Our producers are Kieran Simpson and Trent Bartlett.

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