I didn’t start out to write a book; I started out just trying to survive caregiving with my soul intact. For years, my days were swallowed by medications, appointments, and the quiet ache of watching my parents change. Writing felt impossible then I was too busy holding everything together. Only after they passed did the silence make space for the words to come.
Lavendel K. Aune is a writer and visual storyteller whose work captures the emotional complexity of caregiving, identity, and endurance. Her voice is clear, empathetic, and rooted in lived experience.
In Between My Heart and Obligation, Lavendel shares the deeply personal story of what unfolded as her parents’ health declined memory loss, surgeries, and the slow erosion of independence. She documents not just the medical realities, but the emotional toll of showing up day after day, often without recognition, and the internal reckoning that followed.
Her storytelling is shaped by years of navigating hard decisions and invisible labor. She writes with clarity, refusing to dramatize what is already difficult.
Lavendel K. Aune is a memoirist and visual storyteller whose voice resonates with the rawness of lived experience. Her creative work is shaped by years spent in the intimate, unrelenting world of elder care, where time slows, emotions sharpen, and small moments leave lasting scars. Through her writing, she offers no tidy lessons or polished advice. What she offers instead is presence, an open hand in the dark, a voice willing to say what others keep quiet.
Her approach to storytelling is visceral and empathetic, drawing readers into the shadowed corners of memory with unflinching clarity. She brings precision and emotion into every decision. Her narratives dwell in grief, duty, and the ache of love, the kind that asks everything and rarely explains itself. The pages reflect the intensity of her creative efforts: vivid imagery, emotional honesty, and a refusal to turn away from pain.
Beyond prose, Lavendel does not write to instruct; she writes to feel. Her work stands as a witness to sorrow, survival, heartbreak, grief, and the strange beauty of staying.
Between My Heart and Obligation tells the story of Lavendal, a woman shaped by emotional hardship, invisible labor, and the lessons that come from doing what felt like the right thing, even when it came at a personal cost.
The book didn’t begin with a plan, it began with reflection, on childhood, on the roles she stepped into without question, and on the slow unraveling that happens when someone starts asking who they are beneath all that responsibility. Lavendal didn’t set out to write a guide, she set out to tell the truth.
Through moments of heartbreak, sacrifice, and reflection, Lavendal discovers the cost of silence and the courage it takes to claim her own voice. Her story reveals how love, duty, and identity intertwine in ways both painful and transformative. Deeply personal yet universally relatable, Between My Heart and Obligation speaks to anyone who has ever wrestled with the tension between following their own path and living up to the expectations of others.
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I wrote to make sense of what caregiving had taken and what it had given. I wanted the invisible parts to be seen, and for someone else to feel less alone.
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