Feeling Invisible As You Age? How to Feel Seen

The Lulu Essey Podcast · Jun 18, 2026 · 10m

Feeling invisible as you get older is something a lot of women experience and it's complicated and doesn't feel good or fair. In this episode I discuss how I approached this during a recent experience that shifted things in a meaningful way.

It usually happens somewhere ordinary. You ask for help, or you say how something made you feel, and you get a disinterested shrug and sometimes the person even looks straight past you. And it is easy to decide that this is just what aging is going to feel like, and that there is no point trying to shift it.

I don't think it has to be that way. And I feel…