Embrace Change

Jackie Olsen
4 min readJul 10, 2022

How to weather the bumps and bruises

Leaves that go from green to red on a spectrum hang from a thread
Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash

New job, new relationship, new baby, new city: in our modern lives we change things over and over. Life change is billed as a grand adventure.

So why do we feel so bad when it happens? Why does change whomp us upside the head? Isn’t the new life supposed to be better?

Take it from me; I’m bipolar, and I have autism in my bloodstream. The bipolar…

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Jackie Olsen

Come for the insights on aging, leave with a doggie bag full of frogs and exoplanets. Now more poems about vacuuming! she/her/hers